SUSTAINABILITY

ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT FESTIVALS INITIATIVES

ArcTanGent are a member of the Association of Independent Festivals, a trades body association. The AIF has several campaigns and initiatives. ArcTanGent has signed up to the following initiatives pledges. 

DRASTIC ON PLASTIC

Tackling single use plastic. Read more about it here

TAKE YOUR TENT HOME 

Reducing the impact of abandoned tents. Read more about it here

REUSABLE CUPS

At ArcTanGent we have a reusable cup scheme in place to avoid tens of thousands of single use cups going to landfill. When you buy your first drink you’ll pay a £1.50 levy, a non refundable deposit. The levy is in place to cover the cost of implementing the system and to encourage you to bring your used cups back to the bar. Each time you come back to the bar with your cup we’ll swap it out for a clean one and you won’t pay the levy again. So please keep bringing your used cups back to the bar to avoid paying the levy more than once. Used cups can’t be used to pay for drinks, they’re just swapped out, and you can’t claim the deposit back. At the end of the festival you’re free to take your cups home but we encourage you to bring them back to the bars or put them in the cup bins so they can be reused at other events and we’re not adding more plastic to the environment. Thank you for helping us operate as sustainably as we can.

TUNED IN TRAVEL 

Tuned in Travel are our preferred travel partner. They offset the carbon generated by travel to and from ArcTanGent for the services they provide. 

Tuned in Travel are dedicated to reducing the carbon emissions generated by festivals. Travel is an essential component of any festival, however, it contributes between 60%-80% to the event’s overall carbon footprint. As a result, we will offset every Tuned in Travel passenger’s carbon footprint through a donation ‘Ecolibrium’. 

Ecolibrium is a charity that works to tackle the environmental impacts of travel by supporting organisations and individuals to reduce, record and balance travel-related carbon emissions. Ecolibrium provides a Travel Carbon Calculator to calculate the emissions from journeys and the opportunity to balance those emissions through their climate solutions programmes, Energy Revolution which invests in projects that create renewable energy or Trees+ which supports tree planting, reforestation and the protection of threatened rainforest. 

TOILET WASTE AND WASTE WATER

Fernhill Farm has a WET system on-site, which is a reed bed system. A reed bed is a natural filtration system that can be used to treat and improve water quality prior to discharging into the environment. It utilises the ability of a reed to transport oxygen to the soil, hence encouraging microorganisms to digest the contaminants in the effluent. The toilet waste and wastewater generated by ArcTanGent stays on-site, is filtered through the WET system, and is then used by the farm as greywater for animals or to top up their lake. 

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