Music Industry Pushes Against Climate Crisis (News Report)


Live music is thought to be a large contributor to the climate crisis the Earth is facing today.

Recent research suggests that live concerts release approximately 405,000 tons of greenhouse

gases each year. Billie Eilish, Harry Styles and Lorde are the artists who have taken the

initiative to partner with REVERB, a non-profit organization dedicated to making live music

more eco-friendly, for their latest world tours. The non-profit has “greened” over 250 tours.


This “greening” is done through avoiding the use of single-use plastic, sustainable food,

upcycled merchandise, and backstage recycling. Each venue sells recyclable Nalgene water

bottles and provides free water-refilling stations. 1,14,000+ single-use plastic bottles were

avoided at Billie Eilish’s tour alone. The artists and crew on tour were served plant-based

meals, which saved 8.8 million gallons of water, 321,000 pounds of grain, 240,750 Sq. Ft of

forested land and 123+ Tonnes of CO2. The merchandise sold at the tours included upcycled

hoodies which used water based inks and dyes, 100% recycled vinyl and artist customised

Nalgene bottles. The backstage was “greened” by using rechargeable batteries, recycling non-

rechargeable batteries and replacing plastic cutlery and service ware with biodegradable options.


Lollapalooza in Chicago took up the 2017 Sustainability Award from Illinois. It collaborates

with REVERB and combines the value of music with being environmentally responsible. Over

14.6 million tonnes of recycled materials were produced in the 2018 Lollapalooza, and the

festival avoided using plastic bottles by providing reusable water stations. There has been a

chain of eco-friendly touring with Coldplay, The 1975, Olivia Rodrigo, Shawn Mendes,

Maroon 5, and Massive Attack joining the movement. Coldplay will embark on an eco-friendly

world tour in 2022, which involves electricity-producing dance floors. The most recent Sour

merchandise from Olivia Rodrigo uses 100% organic cotton, and has been sustainably dyed.

By putting new logos on their used, unsold tees and recycling them, The 1975 also made a

splash in the sustainable fashion world.


Major US festivals like Coachella and Desert Trip generate around 100 tonnes of solid waste

every day with artist and fan transportation thought to be the most environmentally taxing

part. Artists are now trying to reduce their flying hours by converting them into train hours.

The biggest music festival in the USA, Coachella, also encourages its fans to carpool or use

public transportation and camp on-site instead of driving back and forth each day, with the

incentive of backstage passes, Food or Merch vouchers, VIP upgrades and even VIP for life.

Vinyl records have been used in the music industry since 1887 and reached record sales in

2020, surpassing CD sales for the first time. Along with printing cover art with ozone-

depleting, solvent-based ink, the vinyl production process also utilises a lot of energy for

steaming and cooling. 


Record labels like Ninja Tune, UK’s proclaimed label, Green Vinyl

Records, group of 8 Dutch companies, and Deep Grooves have switched to biodegradable

records which use green energy, soy-based inks and injection moulding instead of pressing.

Many labels like the K-pop giant, JYP Entertainment, have completely stopped the generation

of physical albums and vinyl, switching to softcopies of the same.

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