2025 Green Initiatives
Help us be a greener Meadows Festival. We work hard to improve our environmental sustainability at the festival each year but we need your help! What can you do?
Keep an eye out for the 2025 Sustainable Stall Award!
Reducing plastic waste with Scottish Water
💧Help us reduce plastic waste at the festival and remember to bring your refillable water bottle to fill up from the tap! You can find Scottish Water tap on Jawbone Walk to refill and stay hydrated.
Minimising Food waste with Goodies Charity
🌭We’re excited to partner for the first time with Goodies Charity who are helping us minimise food waste by taking any leftover food from stall holders on Sunday evening. They’ll be using any leftover food in their café, or donating to charities, hostels and volunteers.
They’ve also kindly supplied our team of volunteers during the site build with food donations, helping reduce food waste through our hungry hard-working team!
Goodies attended the Meadows Festival in 2024 as a stall holder and won our Sustainable Stall Award with their impressive sustainability initiatives. We couldn’t wait to work more closely with them!
Reducing carbon emissions with the Cycling Gardeners of Edinburgh & Soul Cycles
🚴♀️The Cycling Gardeners of Edinburgh have lent us some cargo bikes to reduce our carbon emissions over the festival week & weekend. We’ll be doing our deliveries around the site using the bikes and saving on carbon emission from vehicles.
🚴♀️Soul Cycles have also donated two bicycles to help our volunteers get around the site quicker and in a more environmentally sustainable way!
Celebrating the great work of our market traders on sustainability
🛒And of course our Sustainable Stall Award is back again for it’s 7th year! Who will be the winners….?! Find out on Sunday at midday 🥇