Organisers promise green days for Picnickers

ORGANISERS of Electric Picnic are promising this year’s boutique festival will not only be bigger, but greener, with a host of initiatives to reduce environmental damage.

Concert-goers might not know it but efforts are being made to cut back on energy use and carbon emissions, to reduce waste and inform music lovers about “green” initiatives.

“One of the objectives of the festival is to try and increase the awareness [of the environment] as punters come through with signs, wrist bands and T-shirts about the carbon footprint, about climate change,” said Davie Philip from Cultivate, a group co-ordinating green initiatives for the festival.