Setting - Environmental Impact

Our Impact

The opportunity to run a festival in such a remarkable location is an honour and responsibility we take very seriously. As organisers we work very hard to ensure the event brings real benefits to the local community and economy and does not cause disruption. Over the past years beach breakers themselves have earned a reputation for respecting the environment and communities where the events have taken place; a tradition we aim to uphold.
We try to reduce our negative impacts by reducing the emissions created by the event and we also get involved in positive activity that helps others to address the problem. For example, we help raise awareness of how others can reduce their impact by introducing fun and interactive activities like our Great Eco Race.
With regards to the reducing our emissions, arguably the most impactful thing we do is provide coach travel from the Universities – travel to festivals is normally responsible for around 80% of total emissions created by the event. Also reducing travel miles of supplies is crucial – so we try as much as possible to source everything from our beer and burgers to our festival infrastructure from local sources. We also use renewable energy on site where possible, use recycled products and then recycle our own.
To put this into context, if the above were correctly implemented we would reduce our emissions by 75% (over 250 tonnes of carbon). Equivalent to not boiling over 2 million kettles or planting rainforest the size of 4 football pitches. Another way of looking at it…. Like removing 15 double-decker buses of carbon (in weight) from the atmosphere! And we're only 1 of thousands of events.