Bye Bye Plastic Foundation by BLOND:ISH Launches Eco Rider 2.0
Eco Rider 2.0, a sustainable toolkit from BLOND:ISH’s Bye Bye Plastic Foundation, is now available after its launch at ADE this week.
Eco Rider 2.0, a sustainable toolkit from BLOND:ISH’s Bye Bye Plastic Foundation, is now available after its launch at ADE this week.
In a collaborative effort with artist and booking agency Gigwell, the Eco Rider 2.0 features networking spaces for both artists and touring crews, a toolkit of resources, and educational content to increase greener approaches and initiatives in live music. It also includes “backend integration so that sustainability requirements become a seamless part of the booking workflow,” according to Billboard.
Launched at the latest edition of Amsterdam Dance Event this week, Bye Bye Plastic and Gigwell held a panel at Felix Meritus, where Bye Bye Plastic cofounder and director Camille Guitteau talked about sustainability in the live music industry. “The goal is to activate the entire touring ecosystem (agencies, tour managers, artists, and their teams) with the platform and tools to tour more sustainably,” Bye Bye Plastic and Gigwell shared in a post via Instagram.
Eco Rider was launched in 2019 and since then, more than 1500 artists including house music virtuoso Öona Dahl, Apache, Iranian-American house and techno visionary Dubfire, Madame Gandhi, melodic house maven Yulia Niko, Brazilian techno great ANNA, Swiss-French progressive house heavyweight Deer Jade and boundary-pushing English DJ/producer Eats Everything adopting it to do their bit to put an end to single-use plastics in the music industry.
BLOND:ISH started the Bye Bye Plastic Foundation with Camille Guitteau in 2018, taking the lead to get rid of single-use plastic, provide solutions to the problem of plastic waste and eco-friendly alternatives. The vinyl for her album ‘Never Walk Alone’ was made using biogenic waste, including used cooking oil, with this process of crafting decreasing carbon dioxide emissions by 90%. The full-length album’s vinyls were pressed by BioVinyl – a pressing plant that manufactures vinyls using bio-based PVC.
“When I started using the eco rider, 100 percent of my events were using plastic. Now I’m down to 20 percent. And not even just in the DJ booth, but the actual entire event is single-use plastic-free,” Vivie-ann Bakos AKA BLOND:ISH told Billboard.
Learn more about Eco Rider 2.0 on the Bye Bye Plastic website
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