Green Steps

The festival engages directly with the challenge of environmental sustainability through its Green Steps initiative. We maintain a commitment to minimising the festival’s environmental impact and creating opportunities to raise awareness on environmental issues. Our aim is to take a few green steps each year and eventually put the festival at the forefront of environmentally friendly event management. We are working with our staff, artists, suppliers, crew, volunteers, donors, sponsors and audience to ensure that sustainability is a key focus in everything we do. We are learning, practicing and educating where we can.

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

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.