Sustainability

Sustainability policy

The Environmental Management Plan is a good-practice guide written to meet the festival's main goal: to reduce its environmental impact and bring everyone who comes closer to a respectful, responsible use of energy. And, with that, to push ecological and sustainable products.

How we do it

• Parking area for electric and hybrid vehicles.
• Separate waste collection across the whole site.
• Reusable ecological cups and sustainable tableware.
• Water and energy savings throughout the production.
• Carbon footprint measured at every edition.
• Eco audit and surveys once the festival closes.
• Acoustic study, and control of light and noise pollution.
• Actions to protect local flora and fauna.
• Adapted spaces for people with reduced mobility.
• Sustainable purchasing policies and sustainable merchandise.
• Environmental training for all staff.
• Sustainable mobility and sustainable communication.
• Organic, zero-kilometre produce at the food trucks.
• Sharing the environmental initiatives already running in Lanzarote.

Zero waste

A reusable cup generates no waste, unlike a single-use one, recyclable or not. It stops being dropped anywhere, it goes in the dishwasher and it lasts up to 150 uses.

Respect for the surroundings

Reusable cups are ecological: they save natural resources in production and cut the CO₂ emissions of transport. And by no longer taking a new cup with every drink, it is the behaviour of the people here that makes the product a responsible one.

A model for the Canary Islands

Culture and festivals are part of local and regional development strategies, and of urban regeneration work. A festival has a close relationship with the place that hosts it: it is shaped by the territory, its history and its people, and at the same time it leaves a mark where it is organised.

That mark is economic, but it also belongs to the tourism brand. The aim is to build bridges between tourism and events like this one, for the growth they open up for the sector and for the island.

The landscape is the stage

EMEC takes place at Castillo de San José, an 18th-century fortress facing the Atlantic and restored by César Manrique. Working in a place like that comes with obligations: the volcanic stone, the water and the wildlife around it are not scenery, and the environmental plan exists to hand it back as we found it.