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Greetings BYOBottle Partners!

Happy Plastic Free July! Plastic Free July is a global movement to encourage millions around the world to take simple steps together to reduce plastic waste. It’s an opportunity for BYOBottle partners to celebrate each year, shining the spotlight on success stories and broader industry efforts to turn the tide on plastic pollution. From venues & festivals, to artists, fans and industry partners, we are taking collective action to promote innovation and reuse. 

As a BYOBottle partner, we encourage you to spread the word about Plastic Free July and share how you are taking action to reduce plastic waste, whether on tour, at a show, or in your daily life. You can take the Plastic Free July Pledge, find an event near you, or explore the Changemakers Toolkit. 

Plastic Free July is a busy time of year for our incredible BYOBottle Campaign Partners. Please enjoy these BYOBottle updates and highlights!

➤ BYOBottle – Highlights:
Plastic Pollution Coalition is hosting a Webinar (July 18) on ‘Designing a Plastic free Future with Regenerative Materials’, while Surfrider Foundation is coordinating the largest beach clean up of the year (July 5). Break Free From Plastic has just announced 50 new youth ambassadors are receiving training to coordinate global campaigns to tackle plastic pollution. 

Julie’s Bicycle is collaborating with more than 60 events across the UK to test how a Green Events Code of Practice can be adopted nationally, while A Greener Future has released their 2024 Annual Sustainability Report analyzing 40 festivals across 11 countries and their impacts.

REVERB is working with artists including Dave Matthews Band, Tyler Childers, AJR, ODESZA and Lake Street Drive to reduce single-use plastic backstage and encourage fans to RockNRefill with free water stations and reusable water bottles. REVERB is also hosting a refill station at Thompson’s Point in Portland, ME for the 9th season! r.World is supporting reusables at shows for some huge acts this summer, including Rolling Stones, Maggie Rogers and Billie Eilish, as part of the artists’ commitment to eliminating single-use waste.

BYOBottle founding artist Jack Johnson and his Kōkua Hawaiʻi Foundation have launched a Plastic Free July campaign to encourage community members to show how they are going plastic free. Each week the Kōkua General Store will team up with Hawaiʻi Makers to give away Hawaiʻi made, low waste products to those who enter the challenge. Visit Kōkua Hawaii Foundation’s Instagram to learn more.

The Green Sports Alliance has worked with key venues and partners to create the new Reuse Playbook, to share best practices and lessons learned for anyone looking to make reuse happen at scale. Check out the Upstream Indisposable Podcast A Reuse Playbook for Stadiums to learn more. Effect Partners is helping the National Sports Center make the 2024 USA Cup and USA Week youth soccer tournaments, single-use plastic-free by encouraging participants to bring reusable bottles and providing sustainable water solutions.

➤ Sample Social Media Post: Share a photo of your organization rocking reusables

We are rocking reusables this @plasticfreejuly in support of #BYOBottle and the music industry effort to turn the tide on plastic pollution! #PlasticFreeJuly

*Invite BYOBottle as a collaborator on your post or tag BYOBottle:

FB: @byobottlecampaign / Insta: @BYOBottle / Twitter/X: @BYO_Bottle  

➤ BYOBottle Features: 

💧Featured Action: Plastic Free July Pledge

💧Featured Contest: Kōkua General Store Plastic Free Challenge

💧Featured App: Green Music Australia’s Camping Buddy

💧Featured Event: Surfrider Foundation “Dirtiest Day of the Year” Beach Clean Up July 5, 2024

💧Featured Resource: Green Sports Alliance Reuse Playbook

💧Featured Podcast: Upstream Indisposable Podcast

Check out the BYOBottle Communications Library and explore BYOBottle.org.Stay Connected by following and tagging BYOBottle on Facebook, instagram and twitter/X. Tag us, or send updates and photos to info@byobottle.org and we will aim to feature your BYOBottle efforts on our socials and in future promotion & newsletters!

Greetings BYOBottle Partners!

BYOBottle partners celebrate Plastic Free July each year, shining the spotlight on success stories and music industry efforts to turn the tide on plastic pollution. From venues & festivals, to artists, fans and industry partners, we are taking collective action to promote innovation and reuse. You can take the Plastic Free July Challenge, find an event near you, or explore the Changemakers Toolkit. As a BYOBottle partner, we encourage you to spread the word about Plastic Free July and share how you are taking action to reduce plastic waste, whether at a show or in your daily life. Please enjoy these partner updates and BYBottle highlights!

➤ BYOBottle – Highlights:

BYOBottle Partners: O’land fill & wash station, fans BYOBottle at Outside Lands, Plastic Pollution Coalition at Greek Theatre, reusables at Levitate Music & Arts Festival, r.Cup at Fiddler’s Green, reusable cups on Jack Johnson tour, Green Music Australia with Music Victoria Awards, Plastic Free July hosts Plastic Free Tea with BYOBottle partners

Greetings BYOBottle Partners!

We are thrilled to report that momentum to reduce plastic pollution in the music industry is growing! Artists are joining venues, festivals, and fans to rally around BYOBottle and rock reusables to reduce single-use plastic waste. BYOBottle Non-Profit Partners are sharing out valuable resources and plastic-free messaging, and our Business Partners continue to expand innovative solutions for the events industry. We hope you enjoy these BYOBottle updates and highlights!

➤ BYOBottle – Highlights:

💧Featured Campaign: Green Music Australia’s Party with the Planet

💧Featured Festival Sustainability: Cali Vibes 2023

💧Featured Resource: Julie’s Bicycle Resource Hub

💧Featured Podcast: Upstream Indisposable Podcast

💧Featured Tour Impact Report: Jack Johnson North America Impact Report

💧Featured Webinars: Plastic Pollution Coalition webinar series

Anyone who’s been to a concert knows the sound: The crunch of hundreds of plastic cups underfoot, which are used once and thrown away, creating countless acres of garbage.

Live Nation Entertainment has made a move to reduce that waste at its venues and festival via a strategic investment in Turn Systems, which operates a leading reusable-cup system that also includes collection bins and mobile washing systems. According to the announcement, a single reusable Turn cup has the potential to displace up to 100 single-use cups and can break even on its environmental impact in as few as three uses. (For more on Turn Systems, see the company’s website.)

As the primary option for beverages at participating Live Nation events, fans can easily use the return-bin system instead of a traditional trash or recycling bin. Similar systems have been successfully deployed at major European festivals for many years.

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Plastic whether we know it or not, is everywhere.

It resides in the $4 takeaway latte’s we buy every morning, the cars that we drive to work throughout the week and the cigarettes that we smoke on weekends to say goodbye to all the stress. Unfortunately for Earth the material takes up to 400 years to degrade and with a 379 million tonne increase in plastic production since the 1950’s, the flood gates are bursting open.

Scientists at National Geographic have calculated that a distressing 91% of the 8.3 billion metric tons of existing plastic are NOT being recycled. Plastic not salvaged either ends up as landfill, or if not contained is prone to blow away into rivers and natural water sources where the material is swept out into the ocean. Problems arising from plastic bags, toothpaste canisters and plastic straws are well documented, however the ingestion of microplastics is also a real threat to the natural food chain. Microplastics are 5mm in total size or less and are produced by the break down of floating plastic in waterways being exposed to constant sunlight. The danger here is that smaller marine life consumes these micro substances, then is eaten by wildlife higher up in the food chain – harbouring an endless cycle of consumption. There are plenty of reported cases around the globe where fisherman and even chefs are finding seafood containing microplastics.

So the most important question here is… how do we combat the problem?

“Jack Johnson has launched BYOBottle (Bring Your Own Bottle), an environmental campaign aimed at reducing plastic pollution throughout the music industry by promoting reusable water bottles and water refill stations at events.

Other artists who have signed on to support the initiative include Wilco, Maroon 5, Pink, Bob Weir, Bonnie Raitt, Dave Matthews Band, Dead & Company, Empire of the Sun, Jackson Browne, Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, the Lumineers, Steve Earle, Steven Van Zandt, Ben Harper, Keb’ Mo’ and Flume.”