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Happy Plastic Free July!
Greetings BYOBottle Partners! Happy Plastic Free July! Plastic Free July is a global movement to…
BYOBottle Celebrates Plastic Free July!
Greetings BYOBottle Partners! BYOBottle partners celebrate Plastic Free July each year, shining the spotlight on…
BYOBottle Winter 2023 Highlights
BYOBottle Partners: O’land fill & wash station, fans BYOBottle at Outside Lands, Plastic Pollution Coalition…
National Independent Venue Association Partners With r.Cup to Reduce Garbage at Concerts
Anyone who’s been to a concert in the past couple of decades knows the sound:…
Live Nation to Introduce Reusable Cups at Venues and Festivals, a Major Step Toward ‘Zero-Waste Concerts’
Anyone who’s been to a concert knows the sound: The crunch of hundreds of plastic…
BYOBottle Summer 2022 Highlights
BYOBottle Partners: All At Once Water Stations at Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion, TURN with…
BYOBottle Winter 2022 Highlights
BYOBottle Partners (from top left clockwise): Steelys Drinkware, festivalgoer with pint cup, Jack Johnson reusable station,…
BYOBottle Summer 2021 Highlights
Join fellow BYOBottle partners and millions of people around the world in reducing plastic waste…
BYOBottle Fall 2020 Highlights
Photos – BYOBottle Partners: Bonnie Raitt, Ben Harper, Ohana Festival (Eddie Vedder, Fore the Waves),…
BYOBottle Summer 2020 Highlights
BYOBottle Partners: Shook Twins, Plastic Free July, Steelys at Outside Lands, BYOBottle Artists Ben Harper…
It Ain’t Easy Being Green: How Jack Johnson Continues To Raise The Bar For Sustainable Touring
(Francisco Rendon, Pollstar) Jack Johnson is credited by some as setting a “Gold Standard” for…
Ben Harper: The Earth Day Advocate’s Plastic-Free Future
(Ryan Borba, Pollstar) Ben Harper, a touring mainstay as a solo artist as well as…
From Billie Eilish to Maroon 5, green touring is becoming the new normal
Nathan Sing, CNN (CNN) Her neon-colored hair isn’t the only thing about pop superstar Billie…
Artists Going Green
Rolling Stone RADIO HEAD Nearly as averse to carbon footprints as they are to conventional…
BYOBottle Fall 2019 Highlights
The BYOBottle momentum is growing and we are proud to share out these highlights, tips,…
Live Nation’s Sustainability Rocks Continues to Clean Up Sheds in Second Year
Photo: Courtesy of Live Nation. “As businesses of all ilks have increasingly integrated sustainability with…
BYOBottle Summer 2019 Highlights
BYOBottle Partner Photos – From top left: Steelys, Guster, Event Water Solutions. From bottom left:…
Caloundra Music Festival Encourages All Attendees to Keep It Clean and Green
“In 2019, Caloundra Music Festival (CMF) continues to be a beacon of environmental consciousness as…
At Outside Lands, Not a Plastic Bottle or Straw in Sight
As the crowds milled throughout Outside Lands on the festival’s first day, the grass was…
You Can’t Bring Water Into Lollapalooza Any More, But It’s Never Been Easier to Refill That Empty Bottle
“A festival goer gets a water container filled at Lollapalooza Thursday, August 1, 2019, in…
Tips to reduce your environmental footprint as a touring musician
“Touring musicians spend a lot of time eating in transit; servo pies, countless cups of…
Theatres Join Battle to Beat Single-use Plastic
The War Memorial Theatre in Gisborne is the first venue in New Zealand to sign…
Melbourne Venues Agree to Stop Using Single-use Plastic Bottles
Thinking Green. A handful of Melbourne music venues are joining the fight against single-use plastic…
Live Nation Sets Sustainability Goals For Concerts And Live Events As Part Of Ongoing Green Nation Program
“Live Nation Entertainment, the world’s leading live entertainment company, announced today that its global sustainability coalition, Green…
Fans Want More Sustainable Festivals, Major Study From Ticketmaster Finds
PHOTO PER MATT EACHUS – Waste reduction at festivals is the number one concern for…
3 Solutions To Reduce Plastic Pollution… In The Music Industry
Plastic whether we know it or not, is everywhere. It resides in the $4 takeaway…
Inside Waste AU: Sustainable Concerts Working Group Announce International BYOBottle Campaign
In conjunction with Earth Day, the Sustainable Concerts Working Group (SCWG), led by multi-platinum recording…
Rolling Stone: Jack Johnson, Wilco, Maroon 5 Join Environmental Campaign BYOBottle
Jack Johnson has launched BYOBottle (Bring Your Own Bottle), an environmental campaign aimed at reducing plastic…
Pollstar: Q’s with Jack and Kim Johnson on Sustainable Concerts Working Group’s BYOBottle Campaign
“On Earth Day this year, the final day of Bluesfest Byron Bay in Australia, Jack…
The Industry Steps Up For Earth Day: How The Major Concert Players Are Going Green
The entertainment industry is often progressive and (usually) on the right side of history, putting…
Rolling Stone: How Glastonbury is Leading the Plastic-Free Festival
The U.K. festival is one of the largest to ban the sale of single-use plastic…
Corporate Knights: Can the Music Industry Go Green?
Glastonbury Festival’s recent ban on bottled water is latest in a string of green pledges…
Billboard: Industry Leaders Discuss what they are doing to Make Concerts More Sustainable
A burgeoning movement to reduce plastic waste has caught the attention of artists, promoters, venues…
Nat Geo: Jack Johnson Wages War on Ocean Plastic
The artist and surfer, who grew up in Hawaii, is driving awareness of ocean pollution.
Live Nation, Coachella, Stagecoach Enact Ban on Plastic Straws
The concert promoter and influential festivals are joining forces with Lonely Whale to promote “For…
Forbes: We’re Now at 1 Million Plastic Water Bottles per Minute
We’re Now At A Million Plastic Bottles Per Minute – 91% Of Which Are Not…
Rolling Stone: Music Industry’s Battle Against Plastic Junk
Touring artists are using their unique influence to help festival organizers move away from single-use…
Huff Post: Concerts Create a Huge Amount of Waste…
Concerts create a huge amount of waste, and Jack Johnson is tackling it head on.
Pollstar: Sustainable Concerts and the Triple Bottom Line
Sustainable concerts & the triple bottom line: profits, people & the planet.
Washington Post: By 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in the worlds oceans
By 2050, there will be more plastic than fish in the world’s oceans, study says.
Partners Blog
LIVE NATION ANNOUNCES GREEN NATION TOURING PROGRAM, GIVING ARTISTS TOOLS TO REDUCE THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF TOURS
Live Nation Entertainment, the world’s leading live entertainment company, today introduced the Green Nation Touring…
Reuse Wins at Events: A life-cycle analysis of reusable and single-use cups
Over the past decade, the sports, entertainment, and live events industry has searched for alternatives…
DEAD & COMPANY IMPACT REPORT: 2021 TOUR
IMPACT HIGHLIGHTS 45,500+ ACTIONS TAKEN BY FANS AT SHOWSSUPPORTING IMPORTANT SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES $1.5…
Q&A with Rebecca Prince-Ruiz, Founder of Plastic Free July
Rebecca Prince-Ruiz, Founder and Executive Director of the Plastic Free Foundation, a nonprofit organization that…
Oniracom; the BYOBottle Campaign!
For decades Oniracom has proudly supported all of the Jack Johnson camp’s nonprofit initiatives as…
6 Top Music Industry Greening Challenges & Solutions
When I started working with the live event industry to reduce the environmental footprint of…
Jack Johnson: 2017-18 All At Once Sustainability Awards for venues, festivals, promoters
All at once sustainability awards announced
PPC: Wonderfruit Festival Eliminates Single-Use Plastic
Wonderfruit festival eliminates single-use plastic.
PPC: Behind the Scenes of Jack Johnson’s Plastic-Free Summer Tour
Behind the scenes of Jack Johnson’s plastic-free summer tour.
PPC: Refill Revolution at Bonnaroo Diverts 2 million Plastics Cups and Water Bottles from Landfill
Refill revolution at Bonnaroo diverts 2 million plastic cups and water bottles from landfill.
PPC: Partying and Plastic: The UK Festival Circuit
Partying and plastic: the UK festival circuit.
PPC: Outside Lands Joins the Refill Revolution
Outside lands music and arts festival joins the refill revolution.
Case Studies
Rewash Revolution: Getting to zero waste at Strawberry Fields Festival in 2019
In 2019, Strawberry Fields Festival launched a new reusable crockery system, Rewash Revolution. Born out of a desire…
The Lost Lands Refill Revolution!
The Lost Lands festival is widely regarded as a leader in environmental sustainability, cultivating creativity…
Green Music Australia Case Study: Max Watts goes BYOBottle
Popular Melbourne live music venue, Max Watts, is diverting thousands of plastic bottles from landfill…
Green Music Australia Case Study: Beautiful Reusable Bottles as Band Merch
Ash Grunwald wanted to make a merchandise product that not only didn’t harm the environment…
Green Music Australia Case Study: Plastic Water Bottle Free at Caloundra Music Festival
Caloundra Music Festival goes disposable water bottle free!