Making Festivals More Sustainable with Environmentally Friendly Printed Matter

Besides providing a great line-up, today's festivals also want to be as green as possible. There are more and more initiatives to make festivals more sustainable: recycling plastic cups, making smart use of energy and only offering vegetarian food are some examples of this. In addition to these initiatives, you can also opt for sustainable printed matter for your festival or event. An overview of sustainable printed matter for festivals can be found below.

Wristband with bamboo

A festival often attracts thousands of visitors. Visitors are often put on a wristband for access control and age verification. Wristbands can be printed (translation: polsbandjes bedrukken) on many durable materials, such as bamboo. Choose wristbands made from recycled PET bottles with a bamboo closure or wristbands made from bamboo and 100% biodegradable. Another sustainable option is a wristband made from organic cotton. You can also print recycled wristbands and there are even wristbands made from recycled cork. You're not only doing the environment a favour, but also the visitors, because the sustainable wristbands have a trendy look.

Durable napkins

On a (multi-day) festival there are countless food trucks and snack trucks and napkins are essential here. Therefore have sustainable napkins printed (translation: servetten bedrukken)to save the environment a little. Sustainable napkins can be printed on various environmentally friendly types of paper. By providing your napkins with a logo and link to your website, festival visitors will come into direct contact with your brand.

(Reusable) beverage tray

At festivals the drink goes through quickly and you often get drinks for a large group. Beverage trays are ideal for this. You can have them made from biodegradable cardboard or you can encourage visitors to bring their own reusable tray to the festival.

Programme booklets made of sustainable or recycled paper

Although many festivals have their own mobile app where you can view the line-up, programme booklets remain extremely popular. A festival is a great time to give up your phone and often the battery of your phone is dead after a day. So don't replace your programme booklets for an app, but have them printed on sustainable or recycled paper.

Festival newspaper

At multi-day festivals, you can often score a festival newspaper in the morning with the highlights of the day before. Super enjoyable! Especially if you have it printed on sustainable newsprint or can recycle it.

Hopefully we have inspired you to make your festival more environmentally friendly with these sustainable printing initiatives. Other sustainable printing ideas for festivals? Let us know!