Products
The most sustainable product choice? The one’s that are already out there ✨ Before buying something brand-new, look for secondhand options or borrow from a friend. But when you need to buy, these eco-friendly picks have your back 🌱💚
Earplugs
100% Mycelium Earplugs
🍄GOB’s Mycelium-based earplugs offer unparalleled comfort and protection without the guilt. Made entirely from lab-grown mycelium, they are 100% home-compostable and free from any harmful chemicals or additives—because what touches your body matters. Engineered for noise reduction👂while prioritizing the planet and your health, GOB earplugs are the world’s first truly sustainable hearing solution.
Kandi & Trinket alternatives
Zero Waste & Functional Gifts
Kandi trading and trinket gifting are about spreading love and good vibes, but they’re also adding to the world’s plastic pile 💔
No judgement at all though! If trading kandi brings you joy, keep doing you. But we do challenge our community to think outside the bead box and find creative ways 🎨 to trade and gift that don’t come at the planet’s expense.
Next time someone offers you kandi or a trinket, try this:
“Thank you so much! I’m actually trying to cut down on plastic, so I’ve been saying no to these as a way to help. But I’d love to make a memory—how about a selfie instead?” 📸
Our founder does this at every event, and guess what? People respect it! 💖 Let’s keep the good vibes flowing in a way that loves both the scene and the Earth 🌿
The Queer-Owned Festival Business Coalition
Shop Small, Support Queers
The Queer Owned Festival Business Directory is your one-stop-shop for finding and supporting small, Queer-owned 🌈businesses in the festival and rave space.
personal care & Beauty
Brand yourself as sustainable
Personal care Products
🤳 Deodorant – Plastic-free (Native at Target)
🌀 Reusable Cotton Rounds – Single-use cotton balls/rounds alternatives (Target)
💆♀️ Shampoo & Conditioner – Plastic-free bars (Superzero at Sephora)
🧴 Sunscreen – Reef-friendly mineral based (Raw Elements or Blue Lizard at Target or REI)
🦷 Toothpaste – In a recyclable tube (Tom‘s at Target)
Beauty Products
✨ Biodegradable Glitter – ArtGlitter, BioGlitz, Ecopiggy, Natural Earth Paint and Pixie Dust are all plastic-free
💄Lipstick – Refillable lipstick tubes (Lush at Ulta)
Websites
Bite Toothpaste – Plastic-free toothpaste bits and oral care
Grove – Curated high-performing, planet-first home essentials that help you ditch plastic
The Earthling Co. – Plastic-free skin, body and hair care
Julo Shop – Black, women-owned brand marketplace
Zerra & Co – Low-waste and refillable makeup and skin care
Zero Waste Store – Sustainable household, oral, hair and beauty brand marketplace
Packaging Recycling
Drop off your hard-to-recycle beauty product packaging at one of these Pact bin locations 📍 Here are their recycling guidelines, and here is information about their mail-in program.
Purchase a Beauty Products and Packaging – Zero Waste Box from Terracycle ♻️ and send them any brand of empty cosmetic, hair care, or skin care packaging.
Low to no waste products
Easy switches into sustainability
Get it free
- You can avoid buying something entirely through Buy Nothing and Free & For Sale Facebook groups 🆓 Learn more about the Buy Nothing Movement here.
Low waste swaps
🧼 Bar soap over plastic contained soap
🪥 Bamboo toothbrushes over plastic toothbrushes
🧽 Natural loofah over plastic loofah
🪒 Reusable razor from Henson Shaving, Leaf Shave, or Upcircle
🐝 Stasher bags and beeswax wraps over plastic bags
🎾 Silicone Dryer balls over dryer sheets
🧻 Bamboo toilet paper, paper towels and napkins from Grove, Reel or Who Gives A Crap,
skip buying these
Nope, not for me
We recommend NOT buying these items because they lead to unnecessary plastic pollution and waste.
📸 Disposable cameras
🌟 Glow Sticks
😬 Emergency thermal blankets
🌱 Plastic beads and trinkets
🎈 Single-use party decorations
The Original Circular Festival Fashion Marketplace
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