LodeStar Festival Environment Policy

LodeStar is fully committed to the protection of the environment, reduction of waste and pollution, and to developing its event business in a socially responsible and sustainable way. LodeStar will communicate this policy to all its members of staff, contractors, and affiliates. We monitor our year-on-year activities to set realistic targets and continually lower our impact on the environment.

1. Scope of Our Environmental Tracking
We focus our monitoring and environmental improvements across three main pillars:
Year-Round Office Operations: Tracking office energy consumption, material resource use, and staff transit impacts.
Event Operations: Reviewing contractor haulage, staging equipment transport, attendee travel patterns, waste volumes, temporary energy setups, water consumption, and printed matter.
Socio-Economic Localism: Committing to local sourcing. A healthy local economy provides businesses and communities with the sustainable financial infrastructure needed to invest back into long-term environmental protection.

2. Operational Rules for Our Office
Transport and Commuting: We endeavour to minimize transport-related impacts by opting to car share, utilize public transport, or use bicycles. We prioritize video-conferencing technologies for partner and client meetings. Flights are strictly minimized; where flights are legally or operationally unavoidable, associated carbon emissions will be offset via verified carbon offset schemes.
Energy Management: We avoid excessive energy use by maximizing natural lighting, using energy-efficient light bulbs, completely powering off equipment when idle, and optimizing automated climate controls in administrative areas.
Materials and Waste Management: We combat our indirect environmental burden by reducing raw material demands. This includes defaulting to double-sided printing and replacing physical documents with digital resources wherever feasible. Office-generated waste streams (including paper waste, toner cartridges, and plastics) are actively segregated and sent to local commercial recycling programs.
Procurement Standards: When purchasing office equipment or IT consumables, we research and favor items with lower environmental footprints across their manufacturing and supply chains.

3. Operational Rules for Event Logistics
Site Protection: The layout and assembly of festival stages and infrastructure are designed to ensure we do not disrupt, modify, or destroy local wildlife or natural habitats.
Sourcing and Supply Chains: Construction and haulage contracts are given to local suppliers where practicable to limit long-distance transit miles. Catering vendors are encouraged to utilize seasonal, locally grown ingredients.
Staff and Crew Apparel: For safety and PPE garments (including hi-vis vests and crew clothing), we work to purchase items crafted with natural fibers rather than pure synthetic plastic blends.
Waste Management: We encourage contractors, performers, volunteers, and visitors to reduce waste. Where waste cannot be avoided, we work with Thalia Waste Management, a major waste processing operator based locally at the Waterbeach Waste Management Park. Thalia utilizes advanced separation and sorting technologies to maximize the recovery of recyclable materials (such as plastics, cardboard, and metals) and actively treat residual waste to divert as much material as possible away from landfill.
Water Protection and Management: Catering and sanitation operators are strictly prohibited from discharging any greywater, blackwater, or chemical fluids onto the soil. All waste liquids must be fully contained and hauled to local sewage treatment works for processing. We install low-flush toilet units and actively assess the deployment of vacuum sanitation systems to substantially minimize raw water use, wastewater volume, and operational odours.
Energy Systems on Site: We pursue energy efficiencies through careful operational scheduling and automated system controls. This includes deploying photocell sensors on light towers and site illumination systems so they only run when daylight falls below safe levels.
Site Stewardship: All event volunteers receive training to maintain complete sensitivity toward the local ecosystem, local community, and wildlife. This includes actively preventing littering, minimizing light and sound pollution, and enforcing strict boundary measures to avoid the trampling of sensitive terrestrial habitats.

4. Legal Compliance and Continuous Improvement
LodeStar strictly complies with all relevant UK environmental legislation and approved codes of practice. We continuously evaluate this policy to ensure our measures to reduce waste, control emissions, and manage resources remain effective, transparent, and grounded in practical action.

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