“Take your tent home”: AIF tackles single-use tent
Organisers of more than 60 independent UK festivals call on retailers and festivalgoers to save on plastic waste and stop treating festival tents as single-use items
News By | 8 May 2019
The Association of Independent Festivals (AIF) has issued a call to major retailers including Argos and Tesco to stop marketing and selling ‘festival tents’ as single-use items. The call comes as part of a new AIF initiative to reduce the waste caused by single-use festival tents.
As well as appealing to retailers, today (May 8) the association has launched a campaign to tackle consumer behaviour, urging festivalgoers to “Take your tent home” and “Say no to single use”.
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