Sustainability
We’re proud to be tackling the climate crisis by promoting sustainable lifestyle choices with our events and supporting tree planting and conservation projects around the world. Here you'll find out about how we make our events sustainable and the projects we support.
Making our events sustainable
Local Businesses
You’ll find lots of local businesses at our events which minimises their travel and also helps our visitors support producers in their local economy.
Zero Plastic
We have a zero single-use plastic policy at our events. Our stall holders will use compostable or recyclable packaging where possible.
Recyling
Stall holders are required to either recycle or compost any waste they generate. Where possible recycling bins are made available for visitors to use.
Plant Based
And of course, because our events are completely vegan they don't involve any high carbon foods like meat or dairy!
Understanding our impact
The carbon footprint associated with each of our events is made up of contributing factors including visitor, staff and stall holder travel, power usage, packaging and food waste. We've carefully analysed our events and done the calculations which gives an average carbon footprint of 600kg CO2e per event (with a 15% safety margin built in).
Offsetting our emissions
We work with Ecologi to offset our event's emissions by supporting conservation projects around the world. Click the logo below to find out more about the projects we support.
Tree planting
In addition to offsetting the carbon footprint from each event, we also plant a tree for every business that takes part.
You can view our company forest on our Ecologi page and see where the tree planting projects we've supported have been hard at work.
Our sustainability goals
By the end of 2024, we will have planted 5,000+ trees and offset 160,000+ kgs of CO2e by supporting worldwide climate crisis projects.
We're currently working on being carbon negative, which means we need to offset more CO2e than we emit. We expect to reach this goal by the end of 2025.
How you can reduce your carbon footprint
Cycle or walk to our events, or car share with friends.
Shop from sustainable and ethical producers, local to you.
Try adapting to a plant based diet, see our blog for recipe ideas.
Projects we've supported
Reforesting Dalry
Scotland
This project restores land back to health by using methods from agroforestry including rotational grazing of livestock and recycling forest waste into biochar.
Restoring forests
Papua New Guinea
We helped protect the rainforest, conserve local biodiversity, and enhance the traditional landowners and stewards of these rainforests through carbon credit production.
Geothermal power
West Java, Indonesia
The aim of this project is to use renewable energy generated from geothermal steam to displace electricity generated primarily from coal and diesel in the existing grid.
How you can get involved
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Join our eco system of sustainable and ethical producers.
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We’ll plant a tree every time you trade at one of our events.
