BY CLAUDIA SAUNDERS
Across the years, Boardmasters has enforced various methods to make the festival a more sustainable and enjoyable event for all who attend; whether it’s the surf or the sounds. Having teamed up with the charity Surfers Against Sewage (SAS), the festival organisers have been able to take on a range of sustainable strategies to reduce its carbon footprint and to continue to work harmoniously alongside the local community and the environment. Festivals across the country can be detrimental to the surrounding nature. The amount of litter left behind, abandoned tents, and pollution produced from festival goers is becoming outstanding. Boardmasters comes with more than just one challenge: the beaches. Fistral beach is predominantly occupied by the Boardmasters surf competition, but since music came to the stage in 2005, the plastic that has been left and dragged into the sea has caused an unwanted rise in pollution and sewage levels. Boardmasters set out to tackle these issues. 43
