London Nightclub fabric is Doing Away With Single-Use Plastics

London club fabric has begun providing water cans to attendees in an effort to reduce its impact on the environment.

World-famous London nightclub fabric is taking a firm stance on environmental sustainability. It has eliminated single-use plastics in an effort to minimize its carbon footprint.

Single-use plastics previously included cups, bottles, and straws handed out to bar patrons for individual items that then get thrown in the trash and wind up in landfills. Outside of nightlife, cutlery and plates also make the list. According to the UK government, a combined 3.4 billion of these two items are used in England each year — Only 10% of which are recycled. Plastic takes hundreds of years to break down and emits harmful greenhouse gases, both when it’s produced and disposed.

For fabric, doing away with single-use plastics was no simple task. It required the club to introduce new water cans — but they gave the endeavor their distinctive creative stamp by enlisting visual artist Luca Zamoc to provide its design. He paired the club’s logo with a crosshatched drawing of sunbeams illuminating a rocky landscape.

“This design will be showcased on the cans for the next few seasons,” reads an Instagram post by fabric. “Moving forward, we will select artists to collaborate on the can designs. We will open artwork submissions soon.”

By no means is fabric the first nightclub to eliminate single-use plastics. A club called ecodisco was London’s first to do away with them — it has since evolved into a consultancy firm that helps venues and event brands implement reusable cup systems.

To address concerns about how drink spiking could arise from the new system, fabric has shared that they will provide lids that fit over all of their cans and cups.