THE HEADLINE NUMBERS
12.76
tonnes of plastic prevented in 2025
55
venues, festivals, and events activated
1,607,508
people reached on the dancefloor
WHAT 2025 LOOKED LIKE
2025 was the year the work stopped being separate projects and started behaving like a system. Six years in, Bye Bye Plastic hit the stride where things compound: a program that ended in France seeded a chapter in New York, a rider written in 2019 became infrastructure inside booking platforms, and a club night in London turned into a funding model. Less scrambling, more scaffolding. The party got structural.
The headline was Zero Plastic Club: France closing out its two-year pledge and overshooting the target by 100%. It was built to eliminate around 5 tonnes of single-use plastic a year across 24 venues. It ended up preventing over 1.2 million plastic items annually, including 324,000 bottles. Meanwhile #RamèneTaGourde went from bar counter to main stage, hitting 9 summer festivals and driving a 187% rise in people bringing their own bottle. We launched Eco-Rider 2.0 with Gigwell, putting it in front of 80,000 artists and agencies and getting Billboard and DJ Mag to care about a contract clause. We signed a two-year environmental transition partnership with CERCLE and delivered a 40-page policy plan that actually shipped company-wide. Gallery and Paloma in London started donating £1 from every glass water bottle sold, which is the kind of thing you cannot fake enthusiasm about. And at NYC Climate Week, our installation “What You See Is NOT All There Is” opened the campaign for a citywide pledge that could take 42 tonnes of plastic a year out of New York nightlife.
The numbers stay a floor, not a ceiling. 12.76 tonnes of single-use plastic avoided this year, made of 471,188 water bottles and 442,280 cups. 54.8 tonnes of CO2e saved, roughly what it takes to produce 30,192 beef burgers. 55 events, festivals and clubs activated, and 1,607,508 people reached on the dancefloor. Six years in, that stacks to 134 venues and events transitioned, nearly 3 million earthlings reached, and 114.8 tonnes of CO2e kept out of the air. The dancefloor is still here. It is just cleaner.
