This year’s Exmouth Festival (19-21 July) focuses on sustainability and incorporates eco-friendly initiatives into this free, unticketed event. Festival-goers can expect a planet-friendly experience with compost toilets, well-marked bins, reusable cups (The Exmouth Cup), plant-based food options, an Eco Stall, Earth Day and a dedicated ‘Green Team’ to promote sustainability and answer questions. Focusing on the health of our planet, ‘Earth Day’ on Sunday features a plastic-free market and ecology-focused craft, music, and walkabout performances. Tackling waste is a big theme, focusing on food, packaging, and human waste! Traders will use sustainable packaging options, and efforts will be made to measure and reduce their carbon footprints. There will be clearly marked bins for recycling and food waste, with cooking oil being donated for fuel use. Compost loos will be provided by Compoost Toilets, who take the waste to be broken down into fertiliser. Visitors can learn about reusing, repairing, reducing, and recycling at the Eco Stall in Manor Gardens. All electricity at the festival, except the main bar, will come from a 100% renewable energy tariff. Water refill points will be marked on a map, to reduce the need for packaged water. Green travel will be promoted.
There will be a Cycle Hub in The Strand, rewarding everyone who cycles to the event, plus a cycling-based game by the Bureau of Silly Ideas. Artists, traders and crew are encouraged to use the Ecolibrium app to measure and reduce their travel impact by way of making a climate investment. The festival will use surveys to gather feedback on sustainability efforts, with plans to provide a report and guidelines for future event organisers.