As the world’s most iconic electronic music festival prepares for another magical year, Tomorrowland Belgium 2025 is taking its commitment to sustainability to unprecedented heights. Through the Love Tomorrow initiative, this year’s festival embodies a shared dedication to respecting and preserving the festival grounds whilst fostering a sustainable future for all.
At the heart of Love Tomorrow lies a global strategic programme that shapes every aspect of the festival experience. For 2025, the focus intensifies on five critical pillars: Responsibility, Nature, Innovation, Health, and Respect – all supported by robust Change and Communication, Awareness & Research, and Collaborations.
Responsibility: Keeping the Grounds Holy
The Recycle Revolution Continues
$The beloved Recycle Club returns in 2025, making waste management at DreamVille more accessible, fun, and rewarding than ever. During your stay, you can collect Recycle Tokens and exchange them at the Recycle Shop for exclusive items including Loop Earplugs, recycled Tomorrowland flags, and gym bags. The more tokens you collect, the higher the value of items you can redeem.
Compostable plates will be used at all food stands, allowing both plates and food remnants to be disposed of in the same bin. This waste stream will then be processed to produce green energy through Love Tomorrow’s specialised partners.
Creative Cleanup with the Magnificent Cleaning Team
Monday morning cleanup gets a festive makeover with creative performers active in every zone of DreamVille. Through entertaining acts, they’ll motivate the People of Tomorrow to properly dispose of waste, bringing energy and engagement to the final cleanup effort while reinforcing Tomorrowland’s sustainability commitment.
Partnership with Seavents
Love Tomorrow continues its collaboration with Seavents, a company specialised in turning waste into resources. Seavents helps recover as many reusable cups as possible while analysing waste streams and pollution levels for continuous improvement.
Impressive Recycling Infrastructure
The festival’s recycling efforts are truly remarkable:
- 70 recycling volunteers walk around with Recycling Backpacks, making recycling accessible everywhere
- Over 500 volunteers work in dedicated Recycling Teams
- More than 3,000 bins strategically positioned in neighbourhoods and parking lots
- 1,300+ bins for visitors, with another 1,000 available backstage
- Over 1,400 recycling bins at DreamVille
- 15+ waste streams defined, sorted, and recycled
- Reusable cups used throughout Tomorrowland and DreamVille
Giving Banners a Second Life
After each festival, all banners are collected and transformed through FlexPrint’s innovative production process. In 2024, recycled banners were repurposed into 1,328 plates of Sign Again material, preventing over 12 tons of CO2 emissions. This program continues in 2025, ensuring every banner gets a meaningful second life.
Nature: Preserving Our Environment
Revolutionary Water Conservation
By 2030, Love Tomorrow aims to reduce blue water consumption by 50% compared to 2019. Already on track with a current reduction of 7 million litres, the festival employs smart metres, reuse strategies, and crew education.
New water-saving measures for 2025 include:
- 20 water taps installed across Tomorrowland and DreamVille for crew use
- Encouraging reusable bottles to minimise plastic waste
- Smart water meters monitoring usage throughout the festival
- Using pond water for all magic mist installations
- DSSV transporting black water to Aquafin for treatment and purification
Air Quality Initiatives
Love Tomorrow supports four valuable air quality initiatives:
- Solar panel installation at Arteveldehogeschool
- Sustainable farming activities at Sheelafarm in Rumst
- Carbon farming project at Kruisberghoeve
- Green playground construction at OLVI Boom
Clean Energy Revolution
In partnership with Comfort Energy, the festival is making a complete switch from fossil fuels to 100% HVO (Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil). This means a total ban on fossil fuel use and up to 80-90% reduction in CO2 emissions due to biofuel use.
Energy infrastructure improvements include:
- 52% of the festival connected to local fixed power network in 2024, continuing in 2025
- Major investments planned for 2026 to expand the fixed power network
- 500kWh battery packs at DreamVille providing additional green energy for the crew campsite
Sustainable Mobility Solutions
Mobility represents over 70% of the festival’s carbon footprint, making it both the biggest challenge and greatest opportunity for change. Key initiatives include:
Aviation Sustainability: With Brussels Airlines support, Sustainable Aviation Fuel is now standard in all Global Journey packages, resulting in a 25% reduction of emissions allocated to plane transport – meaning a reduction of 916 tonnes of CO2e.
Ground Transportation:
- Carpooling widget implemented on the festival website’s “How to get there” page
- Electric bike charging stations available for the first time at Bike Parking during festival days
Innovation: Joy & Magic with Purpos
Love Tomorrow Summit & The Impact Circle
The festival hosts two groundbreaking events that unite sustainability with innovation:
Love Tomorrow Summit (July 24th) brings together the brightest minds for keynotes on six transformative themes: Impact entrepreneurship, Nature, Health & Mindfulness, Science & Technology, Socio-Economic, and Entertainment. The evening concludes with renowned music artists performing at iconic Tomorrowland stages.
The Impact Circle (July 23-25th) is an invitation-only event connecting Europe’s top startups, pioneering investors, and leading corporates in an unprecedented environment spanning Boom and Brussels.
Sustainable Special Effects
Traditional CO2 jets are being replaced with ECOJETS at the MainStage. These deliver powerful smoke effects without relying on CO2, creating memorable moments while maintaining environmental responsibility.
Route 360: Circular Innovation
The Route 360 program showcases circular economy principles through:
100% Recycled Crew Shirts: Each crew member receives a shirt made from 70% recycled cotton and 30% virgin regenerative cotton. The regenerative cotton is produced using water-saving techniques, saving 2,500 litres of water per shirt.
Rain Poncho Elimination: Tomorrowland no longer offers disposable rain ponchos, instead encouraging the purchase of long-lasting rain jackets at reduced prices when necessary.
Camp2Camp: This project, launched in 2016 with Ecoso, offers pre-pitched tents made from recycled materials at DreamVille, hosting over 4,000 visitors. Camp2Camp works with refugees and migrants, offering employment, language courses, and operating a shop for tents and camping materials during the festival.
Health: Body & Mind Wellness
Fighting Food Waste
Love Tomorrow partners with local food banks to ensure all surplus food from the festival is collected. This creates multiple food parcels made available to those in need, turning potential waste into community support.
At the Love Tomorrow Summit, a food value label will be tested. This innovative label reflects Love Tomorrow values and informs the People of Tomorrow about the most sustainable and healthy food choices.
Fitness & Wellness
The Gym returns to DreamVille, giving People of Tomorrow the opportunity to maintain their fitness routines during the festival weekend. Yoga sessions remain available throughout the weekend, promoting both physical and mental well-being.
Respect: Building Inclusive Communities
Inclusion as a Focus Point
Inclusion is a major focus for 2025. Through partnership with Inclusie Ambassade, multiple people with disabilities are invited to experience the festival. Their feedback helps Love Tomorrow work towards making Tomorrowland increasingly inclusive and accessible for all.
This collaborative approach ensures that the festival’s magic is truly accessible to everyone, regardless of physical abilities, creating a more welcoming and diverse community of music lovers.
The Road Ahead
Love Tomorrow at Tomorrowland 2025 represents more than just a music festival – it’s a blueprint for how large-scale events can operate sustainably whilst maintaining their magical essence. Through innovative partnerships, cutting-edge technology, and genuine commitment to environmental stewardship, Tomorrowland is proving that sustainability and spectacular experiences can go hand in hand.
From the 7 million litres of water saved to the 916 tonnes of CO2e reduced through sustainable aviation fuel, from the 12 tons of CO2 emissions prevented through banner recycling to the 70% recycled cotton in crew shirts – every initiative contributes to a larger vision of responsible celebration.
As the People of Tomorrow dance under the stars at De Schorre, Boom, they’re not just part of a musical experience – they’re participants in a movement toward a more sustainable future. The Love Tomorrow initiative proves that when creativity meets commitment, the result is truly transformative.