DOING OUR BIT FOR THE PLANET
We recognise that like most things in life, events have an impact on the environment so we’re trying our best to lower our carbon footprint. And as we are in the heart of the New Forest National Park we want to go that bit further.
Below are some of the ways Dogstival tries to be more sustainable and
create as little impact as possible. These include:
• Assessing the social, economic and environmental impact at the start of the planning process
• Including sustainability clauses in contracts with our suppliers like what is/isn’t allowed on site
• Reducing, reusing and recycling wherever possible. Our aim is to recycle
a minimum 60% of all our waste
• We’re seeing how solar and battery storage can take on some of our power needs on site
• Communicating electronically rather than by paper
• Minimising the impact of travel
• Thinking about the wellbeing of our suppliers, stallholders, staff and the local community
Transport
In order to reduce the need for and impact of travel, wherever possible we:
• Provide any accommodation within walking distance of the venue
• Get you off the road and parked quickly and efficiently
Suppliers
We work with environmentally conscious and sustainable suppliers
Our main suppliers – power, staging, sanitation, bar providers – come from within a 30 mile radius of the event to reduce travel/ carbon footprints
We now power a large proportion of our event site using solar energy
We recycle 61% of all our waste. The remaining 1.9 tonnes we could not recycle is screened again and then processed to RDF (refuse derived fuel)
Food Retailers
Humans & Dogs
Our aim is to ensure 90% of our stallholders are from within a 50 mile radius of Burley to reduce travel and minimise carbon footprints. Additionally, we ask our catering suppliers as far as possible to:
• Serve fresh produce in season
• Consider produce meeting farm assurance standards, such as New Forest Marque, Red Tractor, LEAF Marque, DEFRA registered …..or equivalent
• Source food from their wholesale suppliers who share our values on sustainable production and limiting packaging
• We’ve banned single use plastics such as straws, cutlery or food containers
• Sell water and soft drinks in biodegradable or recyclable bottles
Waste
Provide plenty of bins for recycling and general waste. Our waste supplier operates a ‘two tier sorting process’ to sift out materials that can be recycled. They then offer a ‘waste to clean energy’ solution rather than landfill and our festival programme is printed on recycled paper. Did you know.. fun fact!
We produced 4.85 tonnes of waste at Dogstival 2025. We recycled 61% of all our waste. Paws up for the planet
