No more single-use plastic at 60+ UK festivals after 2021

AIF member events have pledged to eradicate single-use plastic at their events by 2021, following a ban on plastic straws that starts this festival season

Bestival/AIF co-founder Rob da Bank

The organisers of more than 60 independent UK music festivals have committed to eliminating all single-use plastic at their events by 2021.

Following on from Live Nation/MAMA’s confirmation earlier this month that plastic straws are to be phased out at the Great Escape, Wychwood, Lovebox, Citadel and Wilderness, 60+ members of the Association of Independent Festivals (AIF) have announced plastic straws will similarly be outlawed on site starting this summer, as a first step to a full-scale plastic ban by three years’…

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