Fields littered with abandoned tents and plastic bags, bottles and containers, these are the images people often see on the TV after a large music festival. An estimated 23,500 tonnes of waste is left by UK festival goers each year according to think-tank Powerful Thinking, that’s more than double the weight of the Eiffel tower. Here head of operations at biodegradable biopolymer research platform Duncan Clark Teysha Technologies, explains some of the best solutions for festival organisers to minimise their plastic problem.
