Green Steps
What We do
2017 STATE CATEGORY WINNER, LITTER PREVENTION & WASTE MANAGEMENT, TIDY TOWNS SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES AWARDS
We’re super proud to be the 2017 State Winner in the Tidy Towns Sustainable Community Awards Litter Prevention and Waste Management category, thanks to the festival's Green Steps Initiative. The awards celebrate social and environmental projects in regional communities across Western Australia who are doing the best with local resources. Nannup Music Festival was one of 41 entries for 2017 and the communities were located from Tjuntjuntjara in the east to Pemberton in our South West.
FOSSIL FUEL SPONSORSHIP FREE
We have joined the Oil Sponsorship Free commitment program and we don’t take any oil, coal, or gas corporate sponsorship for our cultural work. We call on our peers and institutional partners to refuse fossil fuel funding too.
PROGRAMMING
We incorporate environmentally themed workshops, panels and screenings into our program, in the hope of affecting attitudes and behaviours in the community.
DISHWASHING STATION
Our dishwashing station is equipped with washable and reusable crockery and cutlery and it serves over 4,000 patrons, artists, crew and volunteers over the festival weekend, completely plastic free.
SINGLE-USE PLASTIC FREE FOOD STALLS
We ask that our food vendors use only completely compostable takeaway serveware. No plastic, no styrofoam, no "biodegradables", no bottled water.
BACKSTAGE & ONSTAGE WATER
We don't endorse or offer single-use plastic water bottles backstage or onstage. We provide all our artists with free, pre-filled, stainless steel water bottles.
100% RECYCLED TOILET PAPER
We use 100% recycled toilet paper in all our festival portable toilets. 50% of every Yarn purchase supports school scholarships with Yalari across Australia.
What You Can do
- BYO water bottle to use at our water refill stations
- BYO water if you don't drink tap water; our food vendors will not be selling bottled water
- BYO cup to use at our bars and food stalls
- Refuse plastic serveware from food vendors, ask for alternatives or...
- BYO crockery & cutlery or...
- Use the washable crockery and cutlery on offer
- Use the right bin for your waste
- Use what you need. If every festival-goer used four napkins instead of one, there would be an extra 40,000 napkins unnecessarily wasted.
- Use water responsibly. Limit showers to 4' and make sure you turn taps off.
- Share a ride to the festival
- Present your ticket confirmation on your device instead of printing it
- Leave no trace
- No glitter
- No balloons
- No littering
- No campfires
- No tents or rubbish left behind
Green sponsorship
You are invited to become a Green Sponsor of the Nannup Music Festival. This is a special category designed to allow the Festival to pursue its green targets of becoming the festival with the lightest environmental footprint in Australia. Click for more info.