Kirsty Peters is a Marketing Graduate passionate about developing new markets for innovative products in the UK. An enthusiastic festivalgoer and a champion of everything green, Kirsty has thrown herself into becoming the British cardboard queen.
In 2019, we saw shocking reports detailing one of the biggest problems our music festivals face: the dramatic levels of plastic waste left behind. The industry has taken big steps forward to move away from plastic straws and single-use cups but there is still one festival item that needs serious attention – the abandoned festival tent, and we are abandoning more than 250,000 plastic tents in the UK alone every year.
The average tent is mostly constructed from plastic that cannot be recycled after its lifecycle. Given that the average weight of a festival tent is approximately 3.5kg, we are dumping more than 875 tonnes of unnecessary plastic waste into landfill sites…
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