What’s special about our Festival General store compared to other festival General stores?
We know that the food traders and bars at events have to provide compostable disposable /reusable vessels to serve food and drinks. Most Festival general stores stock their festival stores what is currently available from the current convenience wholesalers. Pretty much all of it is not environmentally friendly, once the goods are consumed the outer packaging is left, mostly plastic or mixed packaging.  like chocolate bars and crisp wrappers, and the clear cellophane wrappers of cigarettes.

We look at each product’s wrapping/packaging and research whether a compostable alternative is available. If there are no alternatives, and we supply a mainstream item like cigarettes and Tobacco, the cellophane does a job, keeping the product fresh, we have posters explaining to the buyers in our queues that certain products like cigarettes and tobacco can give us back the plastic packaging as soon as the purchase is complete. We use a company called First Mile who take the flexible plastic and processes it into oil feedstock to produce new plastic.

We have many products already compostable, like totally plastic free chocolate, gummy sweets, compostable ponchos, bamboo toothbrushes, tooth paste tablets. refillable, shampoos, conditioners and shower gels, washing up liquid and much more.

Our aim is to arrive at your event in the greenest way possible, we even came up with the idea of a electric van with solar panels on top to create a kind of perpetual motion. It was scraped as to charge the vehicle with the sun would take 19 days. The best solution right now is a diesel engine which later can covert to hydrogen, as the new fuel network establish. We have invested to make a shop on wheels, we hope its going to help with our set up times, and all our products can be displayed and organised, and our on the spot recycling station.
We have other future planet saving and promoting organic living for all demographics, a social enterprise project in the pipeline, we just want to make the world a better place. By having us at your events, we will pay it forward to get these environmental social enterprises doing greater good running and make change happen.

We started our festival general store in 2012, mostly putting on this service when requested, we love being in nature and have taken our operation to the nest level. this is our fifth year operating as a zero waste festival store.