Happy World Environment Day

Back in 2023 The Rep declared climate emergency, and made an ongoing commitment to reduce our carbon footprint and promote sustainable choices: in our building, in our productions, and in increased awareness of how to reduce the environmental harm in our work.

As today (Thu 5 Jun) marks World Environment Day, we wanted to share some of the progress we have made over the last 12 months:

• We’ve eliminated plastic and paper cups on our bars – you may have already noticed that all of our drinks are now being served in glass.
• We have introduced 8 new ticket scanners which has reduced the need for ticket printing by 50%.
• Our Paint shop team have implemented a new system for washing paintbrushes that means fewer microplastics are being released into water streams.
• We ditched the diesel in favour of an electric van for our recent tour of Community. This meant that we generated 17kgC02e, whereas the same tour in a diesel van would have generated 56kgC02e.
• Another big achievement for Community was obtaining Theatre Green Book Intermediate standard, with 80% of materials used on the production having had a future life and 99% of materials going on to have a future life. We reused flooring from our previous production of Tartuffe and we also donated the set to King Edward’s Camp Hill School for Girls.