From burgers and beer to cooked dinner-filled Yorkshire puddings and a bottle of water, Britain’s music festivals offer up some of the most varied street food of anywhere in the country. Festivalgoers have dozens of food van vendors to choose from at any time.
The Best Food Found at UK Music Festivals
So, where can you find some delicious food with funky packaging to tuck into whilst listening to some great tunes this summer? Here are a few of our favourites:
Wilderness – 4th to 7th August, Oxfordshire
With long table banquets, feasting tents and well-respected chef, guest stars like Raymond Blanc, Skye Gyngell and Virgilio Martinez, Wilderness offers a music, food and generally ‘naturally wild’ experience for all ages and interests.
Glastonbury
As one of the biggest and longest-running of Britain’s music festivals, it comes as no surprise that Glastonbury offers plenty of food options. The food highlight of this year’s festival is set to be the Texan BBQ smoker from Smokestak which will be serving up slow-roasted beef and ribs.
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Last but not least is Bestival. The festival organisers don’t give much away about the food at this event, but it never disappoints. Attendees to this summer’s Bestival should look out for Churros Garcia – especially if you have a sweet tooth – as they serve up small red pots of sugary goodness.
But, what happens once the food is all gone? What happens to the food packaging? That’s what we’ve tried to find out.
Festival Waste: A Major Issue
Sadly, images like this are all too common after festivals and it takes thousands of man hours to clean it up and restore the fields to their natural state.
After Glastonbury 2015, 1,650 tonnes of waste was removed from the 900 acre site, including hundreds of thousands of pieces of packaging, 6,500 sleeping bags and 5,000 abandoned tents. It was reported that 800 volunteers spent the following days cleaning it up at a cost of £800,000.
However, the festival is doing its bit towards a more eco-friendly future. The same year, there were 15,000 recycling and waste bins, 1,300 recycling workers and only compostable or reusable wooden cutlery.
How Could Eco-Friendly Food Packaging Help?
Here at Charlotte Packaging, we think food packaging should not only be stylish and practical, but eco-friendly too. Many of our packaging solutions are recyclable and we also offer biodegradable bags too.
Biodegradable packaging ideas, like this, could certainly help reduce the waste and eco-impact of Britain’s biggest festivals.
Available in three different materials, Natureflex, PLA film and paper, our biodegradable packaging can breakdown in as little as 6 weeks. All are strong and versatile, meaning catering trucks can use the biodegradable bags for all kinds of foods, and they’ll only begin to breakdown once they are buried together.
Festival workers could create a large compost bin for this and in time use the degraded waste to help fertilise the barren ground and replenish the soil for further use. Alternatively, festivals such as Glastonbury hold more than a thousand composting toilets at each annual event – the biodegradable waste could be removed with this.
Why not give us a call on 01495 741 589 or contact us here to see the options available to you.
To learn more about our biodegradable food packaging or any other of our films, bags or papers, browse our site or read a few more of our blog posts.
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