One Festival Tent Uses as Much Plastic as 22 Coldplay LPs, 200 Bottles and 9,000 Straws
June 20, 2024
June 20, 2024
BANBURY, England, June 20 -- The Waste and Resources Action Programme issued the following news release:
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How to be a green (hu)man at any UK music festival.
* UK music festivals will generate around 26,000 tonnes of waste this year - more than the weight of 2,000 Routemaster buses - just a third of this will be recycled.
* A typical festival tent uses the same amount of plastic as 8,750 straws, 200 bottles or 22 Coldplay records/*.
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How to be a green (hu)man at any UK music festival.
* UK music festivals will generate around 26,000 tonnes of waste this year - more than the weight of 2,000 Routemaster buses - just a third of this will be recycled.
* A typical festival tent uses the same amount of plastic as 8,750 straws, 200 bottles or 22 Coldplay records/*.
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