Hadra Trance Festival will no longer be selling plastic bottles at the bar from 2019! Because we can always do better, we strive every year to improve our ecological impact, and that includes reducing our plastic waste.

So bring your water bottle, your ecocups or your bottles (plastic – no glass accepted on site): we’ll serve you free water at the bar if you come with your container! There are also plenty of drinking water points on the site!

A little tip: in the same spirit, remember to bring your own cutlery (plates, forks and spoons, sharp objects not allowed) to eat at the stands and avoid using disposable cutlery. 🙂

Every year, in collaboration with our partners AREMACS, we offer you a game related to waste management. Try your luck at winning a Hadra gift (posters, CDs, T-shirts, etc.) on the green roulette wheel by returning a bag of household waste or sorted waste to the Aremacs collection stand. Waste can only be returned during the day.

Bin bags and ashtrays will be distributed on your arrival. Don’t hesitate to come and ask for more at their stand. Leaving the site as clean as when we arrived is essential. We’re counting on you to bring back all your sorted rubbish (household waste or recyclable packaging). Thank you for your help!

AREMACS is an association whose aim is to limit the environmental impact of social, cultural and sporting events by raising awareness of ecological issues and providing event organisers with human and material resources to reduce their impact.

This festive, willing and smiling team is our essential partner when it comes to waste prevention and actions to reduce the impact of rubbish on the festival site.

In 2019, more than 28.6 tonnes of waste were produced by the Hadra festival, 45% of which was recycled. We have extended sorting instructions: 100% of plastic, cardboard and metal packaging can be recycled.

Since 2019, the Hadra association has been developing the Agama team in collaboration with AREMACS, our long-standing waste management partner.

Team Agama is made up of around forty people tasked with collecting waste on an ongoing basis, distributing bin bags and portable ashtrays and raising public awareness of environmental issues.

By integrating this new team internally, the association is taking charge of a sustainable part of its operations, to better integrate volunteers too. The team’s idea is to make waste awareness more playful, attractive and fun, by interacting with the public in fancy dress, collecting waste on the dancefloor in the middle of the day and walking around the festival site.

The question of waste water is a key issue, as we are on a natural site with a lake, we make sure that waste water treatment is carried out rigorously. We have two types of infrastructure for toilets and showers: a fixed part that we use all year round and a temporary part that we install for events. Professional plumbers are on hand to manage them.

In 2019 we had 175 toilets and urinals, of which 151 were compostable and 24 fixed. All our fixed installations are connected to an on-site lagoon which stores and treats the wastewater before gradually releasing it into the water after the festival. The campsite has Blue Flag certification, guaranteeing that our waste is not harmful to the aquatic ecosystem.

For the new showers, our partner Symbiose is responsible for the wastewater storage and treatment systems. The latter is carried out off-site, at the lagoon in the village of Vieure.

For dry toilets, our partner Les Gandousiers, a specialist in the field, manages them so that you can relieve yourself in comfort. Always motivated, attentive and pro-active, they are key players in the ecological issues surrounding sanitary facilities.

Their action is down to earth, as they separate the urine from the dry matter and reuse it as fertiliser for local farmers. In 2019, no less than 40m3 of dry matter and 44,000 litres of urine were collected and recycled.