Bristol’s Love Saves The Day bans glitter and single-use plastic

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Love Saves The Day festival has banned glitter and single-use plastic at its festival in a bid to reduce its carbon footprint.The event, which is being held at Ashton Court on June 2-3, plans to cut its environmental impact 50 per cent by 2025.Loves Saves the Day has partnered with Music Declares Emergency, a movement which is calling for urgent climate action through its No Music On a Dead Planet campaign.The festival’s sustainability manager, Pauline Bourdon told the BBC that when people “connect together and have a moment of collective joy”, they are also able to “share thoughts and see different ways of behaving with food and waste, that can translate into society”.No plastic water bottles will be available to buy on site, with attendees encouraged to bring their own water bottle to refill.Bourdon added: “We are also strongly advising our audience not to wear any glitter, even biodegradable glitter” because traces of micro plastic have been found in that. “It’s about reinforcing different behaviours we want to happen onsite and helping them to have a sense of empathy and identity with the ecosystems onsite.”Last year, Love Saves The Day took place on September 4 and 5, and saw performances from Slowthai, Little Simz, Ghetts and more to a crowd of 60,000 over the two day festival.