V Festival South Environmental Highlights

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1 V Festival South 216 Total score: 36/1 Waste 7 Waste water 1 Water Carbon footprint CO2 Energy 187 Equal to 441 flights from London to New York Environmental Highlights Commitment 3/45 * environmental policy and sustainability report * clear environmental responsibilities * communications and engagement with staff, sponsors, contractors, artists and audience Understanding 6/15 breadth and depth of understanding of environmental impacts across eight years environmental data informs actions and progress is tracked Improvement /4 first year of data collection so no proven improvements yet! 1 Final Report 5/19/17

2 About V South Festival Established in 1996 V Festival is an annual music festival held in England during the penultimate weekend in August. The event is held at two parks simultaneously which share the same bill; artists perform at one location on Saturday and then swap on Sunday. The sites are located at Hylands Park in Chelmsford and Weston Park in South Staffordshire. This report covers V South at Hylands Park which is a peri- urban site. 216's capacity was 165,. INSERT IMAGE About V South Festival s Certification V Festival South has been awarded a 2 star Creative Green rating in recognition of its commitment and achievement in embedding environmental sustainability in its operations and activities, following assessment and environmental data analysis by Julie s Bicycle. This is V Festival's first assessment. Full details of the assessment and scoring and data analysis upon which the star rating is based are provided in the completed Creative Green assessment form. Creative Green was developed by Julie s Bicycle to recognise environmental commitment and achievement in the creative sector venues, events and offices. On average 35 organisations have been certified each year since it was launched in 29. Find out who else is currently certified at certified. 2 Final Report 5/19/17

3 V South Festival Scored 3/45 for Commitment Commitment is assessed based on: environmental policy and action plan integration of environmental sustainability in broader business mission, strategy or planning environmental responsibilities environmental procurement and sourcing stakeholder communications and engagement INSERT IMAGE Highlights Environmental policy produced by Festival Republic covering: waste, energy, water, transport, noise, air and light pollution, ecology, heritage and procurement Festival Republic takes a leading role within the events community such as through Powerful Thinking Dedicated sustainability team rolls out environmental initiatives Post- event Sustainability Report is circulated to staff Engagement with staff through intranet, website, newsletters and s etc Sustainability team liaises with traders and concessions through planning meetings, delivery and debrief stages. Targets, monitoring systems and environmental requirements are agreed and communicated Comprehensive environmental information is also uploaded to the artist intranet platform Audience environmental messaging (covering policy, actions, initiatives and carbon footprint) on website, social media, signage and onscreen Recommendations Continue to be a leader within the events community and weave sustainability into all mission and strategy document, including mention of your carbon target and Creative Green achievements Create a central procurement policy that collates all existing procurement documents Celebrate achievement with your staff, volunteers and contractors. Explain through your policy how far you've come and where you want to get to. Commission more creative content and programmes tackling environmental themes. Participate in The Season, an international initiative to promote creative responses to climate change in Final Report 5/19/17

4 V South Festival Scored 6/15 for Understanding Understanding is assessed based on: breadth and depth of understanding of environmental impacts extent to which environmental data is used inform action and track progress in reducing impacts Direct impacts Energy use Water use Wastewater volumes Waste generation Production travel Indirect impacts Audience travel 216 partial 215 Highlights Reporting one year of direct impacts( energy, waterand waste). Generators are monitored on site and analysis on efficiency is conducted. Monitoring audience, production and staff travel Retrospective sustainability report produced by the Sustainability Coordinator. The report collates all environmental impact data, reviewing performance and making recommendations for future improvement. Recommendations Improve audience travel survey Get better data from the site about mains electricity use Continue working with waste, water and energy contractors and use data on environmental impacts to inform actions and business practice and to determine the results of the actions taken. Communicate summary data to stakeholders to increase environmental understanding. 4 Final Report 5/19/17

5 V South Festival Scored /4 for Improvement Improvement is assessed based on: quantifiable reductions in direct environmental impacts, i.e. impacts over which an organisation has direct control such as energy use and waste generation, both total and relative impacts actions to address indirect environmental impacts, i.e. impacts over which an event has limited or no direct control, such as audience travel INSERT IMAGE Highlights The only historical data shared with JB was 215's diesel use which showed Download 216 reduced diesel use by 6 If 15 biodiesel had been achieved emissions of 28 would have been avoided Recycling rate is 29 Recommendations Continue working with waste, water and energy contractors to identify opportunities for efficiency. Use the Creative IG Tools to report all travel data to Julie's Bicycle. Incentivise arena recycling and improve uptake of recycling raffle Clarify compostable serveware options with traders 5 Final Report 5/19/17

6 Festival Republic made the following internal recommendations for V which Julie s Bicycle fully endorse: Create a communications plan, including regular meetings with marketing team to produce for example more green messages on the app. Recruit and retain more green messengers and give info point stewards more recycling activities and a Monday role. Consider a campsite ecobond. Improve incentives for and visibility of car sharing on website and social media, provide a priority carpark for liftsharers and provide more incentives for coach travel. Label boneyard skips from start of build and remind all crew and contractors about recycling, penalize sponsors and suppliers if they do not recycle, get covered skips for cups and ensure composting facilities are available offsite. Improved arena bin signage, simplify recycling points, ensure not obscured by info points, reuse recycling point signage across all festivals, print on green and orange bags to clarify their use, ensure staff/crew/volunteers know where to get green and orange bags, more comms about cup&bottle return especially signs at bars, improve location and visibility of cup&bottle return point including façade reused at all festivals. Introduce reusable cups Receive list of caterers and traders at least one month in advance from production/licensing to improve comms with them, add responsible and local food sourcing to policy and comms, run a Green Trader Award, increase vegetarian and vegan options, divert food collected from traders and campsites to local food bank. For food traders: improve food waste only signs, agree number of green and orange bags in contract and distribute on arrival, distribute flyers about waste management before and during event. For crew catering: ensure no single serve sachets, provide festival signage for consistency and have a meat free Monday Introduce biodiesel and compare tech specs and actual use Hold monthly update with sponsorship team to ensure smooth comms and take advantage of opportunities 6 Final Report 5/19/17

7 Hold monthly update with sponsorship team to ensure smooth comms and take advantage of opportunities Increase contractors asked for travel data Your Impacts and Performance in Numbers This section provides further detail on your direct and indirect environmental impacts and how they have changed over time, covering both increases and decreases. Its aim is to support you to: track and understand performance over time identify where you are doing well and areas for further improvement Carbon footprint trends (based on direct and indirect impacts) Current year 216 Energy Water Waste water Waste Total carbon footprint Total relative carbon footprint Audience travel Total carbon footprint including audience travel Total relative carbon footprint including audience travel kg CO2e per audience day kg CO2e per audience day Carbon footprint for V Festival South Festival of CO2e Waste water 1 Water 1 Waste Energy Final Report 5/19/17

8 Energy Use V Festival South is largely powered by diesel generators. There is some mains electricity used but the site only told FR the capacity (kva) not the kwh so this assessment has not been able to include mains electricity. Concession diesel use is also missing. Diesel use reduced by 6 from 215 and is also below the JB benchmark..7 Litres diesel per audience day Your event 216 Julie'sBicycle festival benchmark Diesel use (all types) - absolute Diesel use (all types) - relative Red diesel Red diesel Concession red diesel Biodiesel Biodiesel Concession biodiesel Biodiesel as of total diesel Bottled gas Electricity Green tariff mains electricity Gas Normalised gas Onsite renewables Onsite renewable electricity used Onsite renewable electricity fef to per audience kwh Kwh kwh kwh kwh Kwh Kwh Current year ,875 69,875 69,875 8 Final Report 5/19/17

9 Energy Use Emissions If V Festival South switched to 15 WVO biodiesel, avoided CO2e emissions would be 28 Current year 216 Energy use emissions (all sources) - absolute Energy use emissions (all sources) - relative Red diesel Biodiesel Bottled gas Electricity Green tariff mains electricity Gas Emissions avoided using biodiesel instead of red diesel Emissions avoided using onsite renewable electricity onsite Onsite renewable electricity used Onsite renewable electricity fed to grid kg CO2e per audience day Final Report 5/19/17

10 Water V Festival South used 1675 cubic metres (m3) of water in 216, which works out as 1.2 per audience day, slightly less than the JB benchmark. Water and wastewater Current year 216 Water use - absolute Water use volumes - relative Water use Waste water Total water and waste water m3 per audience day m3 m3 m3 1, , ,458 Litres water per audience day Your event 216 Julie'sBicycle festival benchmark 1 Final Report 5/19/17

11 Waste V Festival South generated 314 of waste in 216, which works out as 1.9 kg per audience day, better than the JB benchmark. The recycling rate is 29. The recycling achieved and sending the residual to energy from waste avoided 125. Waste Current year 216 Waste generation - absolute Waste generation - relative Landfill waste Energy from waste Recycling Composting landfill recycling kg per audience day kg waste per audience day Your event 216 Julie'sBicycle festival benchmark 11 Final Report 5/19/17

12 Audience Travel Emissions Current year 216 Total audience travel related emissions - absolute 173 Total audience travel related emissions - relative kg CO2e per audience day 1 Car - average (persons per car: Train - national Bus - local Bus - dedicated coach Taxi - regular Flight - shorthaul Flight - longhaul Final Report 5/19/17

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