New & Improved for 2025: THE MEADOW (ECO CAMP),  stay in a clean, green field for a festival you’ll remember.

The Meadow (Eco Campsite) is for like-minded people who want to make a difference: You live life with the planet in mind, and want to stay in a clean, green field for a festival you’ll remember.

To stay in The Meadow every guest has to sign up to the following principles:

• All guests agree to respect their fellow campers: Be inclusive and curious, talk about what is important to you, and enjoy the festival together.
• All guests agree to respect the environment by protecting biodiversity and avoiding littering: Separate your recyclable materials, use the toilets provided, and don’t cause excess waste.
• All guests agree to leave the campsite exactly as they found it: Everyone here has joined the call, take your tent home, and show the way forward.

Create Your Future. Stay in the The Meadow in 2025

You must book your free spot in advance alongside your Weekend or Weekend + Early Entry festival ticket.

This year, we’re bringing even more to your camping experience with activities tailored to each of our unique campsites. Whether you’re looking to unwind, connect, or explore something new, each campsite offers its own unique lineup:

The Meadow will feature activities such as sustainability-focused talks, upcycling workshops, clothes swaps, and yoga sessions in a serene setting.

Music Festivals have an impact on the environment because of the transport taken, energy they use, waste generated, water use as well as the food and drink consumed. The Show Must Go On Report 2020 shows that the biggest impacts are travel, energy and waste. We have committed to reducing our carbon emissions by 50% by 2030. Most of our on-sire emissions come from how we power the festival.

As set out in our Sustainability Charter we are committed  to preserving the live music experience for future generations to come and using our platform to inspire global environmental action.

We worked very closely with Julie’s Bicycle while they ran the environmental impact report. In their last reporting season, 2019, we were very pleased to be have been awarded 5 out of 5 stars.

We are also proud to be one of the Vision: 2025 Festival’s committed to reducing our carbon emissions. You can read more about the Vision: 2025 pledge here.

Please see our Festival Charter here, which details our commitments to Environmental Sustainability and a number of other areas.

Travelling to the festival makes up at least 80% of a festival’s carbon footprint (Source: The Show Must Go On Report, 2020 . To help reduce the Reading travel carbon footprint, you could travel by lower carbon forms of travel such as coach, train with direct shuttle buses to the festival, or carshare to help reduce this.

See below for low carbon options, and our Travel page for all options here.

We have committed to reducing our carbon emissions by 50% by 2030. Most of our on-site emissions come from how we power the festival.

We use a percentage of HVO (Hydrotreated vegetable oil) fuel in line with our emission reduction targets which emits up to 90% less Greenhouse Gas emissions and are exploring other forms of power such as grid connection and batteries.

Click here for more.

We have put the following in place to reduce single use plastic at Rockstar Energy presents Reading Festival:

– All our cups are paper, and we have had a deposit return scheme in place since 2007,

– We have Pepsi Max bars that avoid plastic bottles completely, serving your drink straight into a paper cup and offering refills,

– All our soft drinks are made from at least 50% recycled plastic

– All our water is served in cans

– Plastic cutlery and straws have been banned since 2009, and only compostable food containers are allowed, – Bulk condiment bottles must be used by our food vendors instead of single-use sachets.

Please refill your water bottles at the taps provided. Please bring a refillable bottle with you to refill.

View a list of everything you can and can’t bring, here.

We run a two-bin system at the festival, which means every bin in the Main Arena will be formed by 2 bins:

Food and Compostable Food Packaging – When you buy food from the traders, everything your food comes in is compostable so plates, cutlery and napkins can be placed in the compost bins along with the food scraps. Please make sure NO PLASTIC goes into the compost.

Everything Else – There should be minimal left over that goes into this bin.

Don’t worry the waste will get sorted!

Look out for the planet and take your tent home . Buy a durable tent that you can use again each year, it will save you money in the long run – see our ultimate guide to buying a tent here

Only bring what you can take home with you. When packing ready for the festival weekend, remember to pack wisely and only bring essential items. See our essential packing guide here.

Festival Republic is collaborating with Decathlon to provide affordable tents for under £30, available for click-and-collect at your local store. These tents can be returned onsite after the weekend, with tent repair services also available. Select tents come with buy-back options too. For more details, visit here

Pink Moon offer pre-pitched tents or if you’re bringing your own tent we ask you to take it home, along with any other camping equipment

Did you know that tents are the equivalent of 8,750 plastic straws, or 250 pint cups. Say no to single use, take your tent home!

The reality is that abandoned tents are sent to energy from waste because it is impossible to recycle or reuse them. If you have any broken tents chairs, gazebos, empty batteries, unopened tins of food after the festival, please take them to the Recycling Points

Every cup, can and bottle sold in the arena has a 10p deposit included in the price. Collect 5 and take them to our cup return stations in the arena for your money back on card.

Minimum deposit return = 50p

We coordinate a salvage operation after the festival for organisations to collect some of the perfectly reusable camping equipment that is left behind therefore reducing the amount of waste that goes to energy from waste.