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New Forest dog festival Dogstival is aiming to cut its carbon emissions in half at this year’s event.
The festival has announced it will be banning single-use plastics on site as well as using renewable technology to partially-power the event.
Dogstival’s renewable technology will include a mix of solar and wind energy to charge large scale battery packs for a number of the arenas and stages.
Back up generators will still be on site, but these will run on biofuel, which further reduces emissions by around 74%.
This adds to the company’s targets to recycle 70% of all waste making this year’s event its most eco-friendly to date.
Richard Nowell, co-founder, said: “With Dogstival held in the heart of the New Forest National Park and as residents, we are aware how important it is to deliver the festival as sustainably as possible. The events industry has been guilty of generating a lot of waste and inviting 10,000 people to a large field requires a lot of temporary power.
“So, we’ve put in place a range of initiatives to cut our carbon emissions and a robust process of recycling all waste, which goes through three layers of ‘sorting’ before any final non-recyclable waste goes to a ‘waste to energy’ plant. I believe this puts Dogstival towards the top bracket of the sustainable festivals in the UK.”
He added: “As with every year, we hope to make this our most exciting, action-packed event to date, with heaps of canine-approved entertainment and of activities. This year our canine clientele can now have fun knowing they are also playing a key role in helping our environment for future human and dog generations.”
