Green

Music Festivals have an impact on the environment because of the transport taken, energy they use,  waste generated, water use as well as the food and drink consumed. The Show Must Go On Report 2020 shows that the biggest impacts are travel, energy and waste. We have committed to reducing our carbon emissions by 50% by 2030. Most of our on-site emissions come from how we power the festival. We are using 100% HVO (Hydrotreated vegetable oil) in all generators and plant vehicles,  which emits up to 90% less Greenhouse Gas emissions.

As set out in our Sustainability Charter we have a responsibility to preserve the live music experience for generations to come and the opportunity to use our platform to inspire global environmental action.

In 2024 we trialled Hydrogen Power to power part of the festival.

Julie’s Bicycle

We worked very closely with Julie’s Bicycle while they ran the environmental impact report. In their last reporting season, 2019, we were very pleased to be awarded 4 out of 5 stars, thank you to everyone for participating. The Creative Green report can be downloaded here.

We are also proud to be one of the Vision for Sustainable Festivals committed to reducing our carbon emissions. We are contributing to their updated report, you can read more about it here.

Climate Live is a youth-led charity who organise concerts and festival campaigns to harness the power of music to engage a new audience in the climate movement. They bring their pink solar-powered bus stage to Latitude, where they programme talks from youth climate and intersectional social justice activists interspersed with live music performances from up-and-coming artists.

Alongside the bus stage, they have their campaign stall where festival goers can speak with their team about how they can support, as well as get free temporary tattoos and bio-glitter, and get creative at their t-shirt printing workshop (where they can print climate justice messaging on t-shirts sustainably sourced from charity shops).

Their stage is solar-powered and their bus runs on HVO vegetable oil.

Looking for the easiest and most sustainable way to get to Latitude Festival? Big Green Coach returns as our official travel partner, offering carbon-neutral return services directly to the festival’s coach park.

WEEKEND RETURN COACH

Choose to arrive on Thursday or Friday. All coaches will return on Monday, hassle-free. You won’t need to worry about being the designated driver or relying on public transport connections.

Pick up locations: Travel from Chelmsford, Colchester, Ipswich, London (Stratford) and London (Victoria).

DAY RETURN COACH

Arrive at Latitude before the music starts on Friday, Saturday and/or Sunday and return to your pick-up location after the headline set. You won’t miss a minute of the action!

Pick up locations: Travel from Colchester, Ipswich, London (Stratford), London (Victoria), and Norwich.

Travel sustainably with the UK’s largest events travel company from just £64. Book in advance to secure your return seat for just £1 and pay the rest in bitesize monthly instalments.

Car sharing is a fun, easy, cheap and sustainable way to travel! If you’re travelling to the festival by car, sign up to Latitude Liftshare to offer your empty seats.

Looking for a lift?

Sign up to Latitude Liftshare to find your match and share the festival excitement.

Travelling to the festival makes up 80% of the total carbon emissions generated (source: The Show Must Go On Report, 2020). You could travel by lower carbon forms of travel such as coach, train with direct shuttle buses to the festival or carshare to help reduce this. See our travel page for all options.

We run a two-bin system at the festival, which means every recycling point in the campsites and main arena will be formed by 2 bins:

FOOD AND COMPOSTABLE PACKAGING
When you buy food from the traders, everything your food comes in is compostable so plates, cutlery and napkins can be placed in the compost bins along with the food scraps. Please make sure NO PLASTIC goes into the compost.

Absolutely EVERYTHING ELSE
Put cups, cans and bottles in here, along with everything else. There should be minimal left over that goes into this bin.

Don’t worry, we will be sorting the waste onsite with our waste sorting and bailing facility.

When packing ready for the festival weekend, remember to pack wisely and only bring essential items, please do not bring any single use plastic (plastic bottles are allowed but please keep them to a minimum). Thank you for taking your tents home with you.

If you want to hire a tent rather than bring your own, Pink Moon offer pre-pitched tents.

If you have any broken tents chairs, gazebos or empty batteries, please take them to the Recycling Points.

Unopened non-perishable foods can be donated at the campsite AirHubs.

Please bring your refillable bottles to refill at the taps provided.

We will not be using our reusable cups this year. It is only possible to use our much-loved Latitude branded reusable cups once per year at the festival, so we have taken the decision to not make any more of them. This is because they need to be used up to 14 times to outweigh the environmental impacts of paper cups (Source: The Making Waves Guide to Reusable Cups at Festivals & Events, RAW Foundation (2018)).

CUP, BOTTLE AND CAN DEPOSIT RETURN SCHEME (ARENA ONLY)

The rest of our cups will be paper this year and all paper cups, bottles and cans bought in the arena at Latitude will have a 10p refundable deposit included in the price. This is to encourage them to be returned for recycling. Return a minimum of five paper cups, bottles, or cans for a 50p refund onto card. Return point locations are as above.

Please redeem your deposit before 23:00 on Sunday night to avoid disappointment. Empty all contents, no crushed or broken bottles/cups.

REFUND POINT LOCATIONS

Bar 1 – Obelisk Bar (Main Stage right) – Closes at 23:00 Friday to Sunday

Bar 3 – Welcome Bar (Arena side of Sunrise Bridge) – Closes at 02:00 Thursday to Saturday, and 01:00 on Sunday