Sustainability

Rock im Park stands not only for unforgettable live moments, but also for responsibility towards the environment and society. That’s why we are constantly working to make the festival more sustainable. Since 2025, we have gone one step further and strengthened our commitment with our own sustainability team and strategic sustainability management in accordance with ISO 20121.

Our focus: less waste, more green energy, climate-friendly mobility, and a festival environment that includes everyone. Here you can find out what has already been achieved and what goals we have set ourselves for 2026. And because change is best achieved together: send us your ideas to sustainability@rock-im-park.com! Together, we are making Rock im Park fit for the future.

Goals for 2026

1. SUSTAINABILITY MANAGEMENT

Rock im Park is supported by a professional sustainability team and external consulting from mediapool. A decisive step in 2025 was the introduction of a sustainable event management system in accordance with DIN ISO 20121. It provides companies and event organizers with clear guidelines on how to plan and implement their events in an environmentally friendly, socially responsible, legally compliant, and economically sustainable manner. Certification according to this standard demonstrates that sustainability is an integral part of your event processes. We have developed a clear sustainability policy that applies not only to us. We actively share this vision with all our partners and invite them to join us on this journey – so that together we can achieve more.

What exactly happens?

  • Involvement of all stakeholders and prioritization of key areas of action
  • Analysis of all greenhouse gas emission areas to identify reduction potential and monitor the effectiveness of measures taken
  • Three-year certification process with independent consulting for greater transparency and quality assurance
  • Close cooperation with Rock am Ring for the efficient implementation of sustainability measures

2. CLIMATE-FRIENDLY MOBILITY

Rock im Park promotes environmentally friendly travel options, including through cooperation with public transportation. To reduce our environmental impact, we are also optimizing the use of construction vehicles and increasingly focusing on e-mobility. The electrification of commercial vehicles will continue to be examined.

What is planned for 2026?

  • Free bicycle parking to promote sustainable travel
  • Increased communication around climate-friendly travel options
  • Review of the use of battery systems instead of generators
  • Continuous monitoring of CO2(e) emissions from fossil fuel energy supply
  • Use of bicycles and electric scooters for employees
  • Gradual electrification of commercial vehicles
  • Optimized route planning to reduce fuel consumption
  • Review of the efficient use of lighting technology and design

3. SUSTAINABLE CATERING

Our catering partner (GTB Gastro Team Bremen) focuses on environmentally friendly solutions such as reusable cups and a plastic-free food court. The use of single-use plastic is completely prohibited at our stands.

Our measures:

  • CO₂ calculation and corresponding labeling of food items
  • Expansion of vegetarian and vegan offerings
  • Abandoning single-use plastic in favor of alternative materials made from renewable raw materials

4. GREEN ENERGY SUPPLY

Rock im Park is reducing its use of fossil fuels and increasingly relying on sustainable alternatives, including innovative solutions for saving energy and increasing efficiency.

This is what we are implementing:

  • Use of certified green electricity wherever possible
  • Diesel generators now only used as emergency power supplies
  • Photovoltaic lighting for toilets and waste stations
  • Energy-efficient stage lighting
  • Climate accounting as a basis for strategic savings in fossil fuels

5. WASTE PREVENTION & RECYCLING

Rock im Park has set itself the goal of keeping waste to a minimum. Many measures aim to prevent waste in general. Unavoidable waste is separated as much as possible, primarily so that recyclable materials can be reused through recycling.

This is what happens:

  • Ban on Tetra Paks and single-use bottles in the event area
    • Ban on single-use plastics across the entire festival grounds
    • 100% reusable cups & expansion of reusable tableware
    • Provision of drinking water stations to promote reusable drinking bottles
    • Awareness campaigns on waste prevention
  • Detailed waste analysis for ongoing optimization
  • More collection points and separate collection of food waste for biogas production

6. CAMPING SITE & GREEN CAMPING

Green camping is continuously being expanded – a win-win situation, as it not only offers a quieter environment but also promotes resource-saving behavior.

Our measures for 2025:

  • Awareness campaigns for sustainable camping
  • Collaboration with initiatives to reduce waste in camping areas
  • Promotion of reusable camping equipment
  • Collaboration with retailers to market sustainable products
  • Cooperation with food rescue initiatives
  • Increased use of recycling stations at campsites
  • Introduction of additional urinals to prevent public urination and environmentally friendly high-pressure cleaning instead of chemical toilet solutions
  • Promotion of environmentally friendly hygiene products for clean wastewater
  • Further expansion of green camping areas and cooperation with environmental initiatives

7. COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY, INCLUSION, AND SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY

Rock im Park promotes a festival culture that is fair, inclusive, and safe. We are committed to environmental and social sustainability and work closely with NGOs to fully embrace these values. Together with experts in the fields of diversity, equality, and inclusion, we have developed a Code of Conduct to ensure that our values are not just words on paper, but are actively implemented in our everyday work. We want to raise awareness of the importance of diversity and create an atmosphere in which everyone feels welcome and respected.

This is what we are committed to:

  • Awareness Team & Safer Spaces for a positive festival culture
  • Cooperation with NGOs and associations for social sustainability
  • Through collaborations with experts in the fields of diversity, inclusion, and awareness, we are continuously broadening our perspectives.
  • Rock im Park should be a place where everyone is welcome and can feel comfortable – a safe space with open communication, tolerance, and humanity.
  • Further development of the inclusion concept

You can find all information about inclusion at here.

Our sustainability goals, which are based on the ISO 20121 process, will be evaluated and independently reviewed after the festival. They serve as the basis for our goals in the coming year.

Rock im Park is going green—with your help! Because change is most successful when we work together. Do you have any ideas or suggestions? Then write to us: sustainability@rock-im-park.com.

Rock im Park stands for shared experiences, for music, freedom and respect. Our festival is a place where everyone should feel welcome. To achieve this, a considerate and respectful interaction is essential.

This is what we stand for:

I. Taking Responsibility

A respectful and mindful approach toward one another is the foundation of a safe and positive festival experience.

  • Respect: Please treat everyone with respect.
  • Thoughtfulness: Look out for each other and take responsibility for everyone’s well-being. This includes respecting your own boundaries as well as those of others.

II. Mindful Behavior

Mindfulness creates an environment where everyone feels safe and comfortable.

  • Consent: Physical and verbal interaction must always be based on mutual agreement and should never be taken for granted.
  • Communication: If something is unclear - ask again. Better to check than to assume. - “No means no.”
  • Awareness & Support: Look out for one another. If you experience or witness any form of boundary-crossing behavior, do not hesitate to speak up or contact the designated support services (e.g., WhatsApp hotline).

III. No Place for Discrimination

Demeaning or exclusionary behavior has no place at our festival. This includes comments or actions targeting someone’s appearance, gender, origin, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, or social and economic status. Especially we reject all forms of racism and antisemitism.

Anyone who disregards these principles and violates our community standards may be excluded from the event.

Let’s work together to make Rock im Park a place where everyone can celebrate freely and feel welcome!

PACK SMART

Please bring reusable foldable water bottles (max. 0.5 l), durable camping equipment, and biodegradable hygiene products without micro plastic whenever possible.
Please avoid single-use plastics and respect the glass ban.

CIGARETTE BUTTS DON’T BELONG ON THE GROUND

Please remember not to throw your cigarette butts on the ground. Use your own pocket ashtrays instead.
Every single cigarette butt pollutes 40 to 60 litres of groundwater.

SHOWER RESPONSIBLY

Please use biodegradable soap with as little packaging as possible, for example solid shampoo bars. Leave the showers clean, be mindful of your shower time, and save water for the people after you.

TRAVEL SMART

Use our city shuttles, travel by train, or share rides with others whenever possible.
You can find more information here.

CLIMATE-FRIENDLY FOOD

Look out for the green symbol at the food stalls.
It marks the most climate-friendly meal available at each stand.


LEAVE NO TRACE

Together, we can keep the camping areas clean. Please take your tents, pavilions, camping furniture, and electrical appliances back home with you after the festival.

Let’s show together that festivals and sustainability are a perfect match

RECYCLING ISLANDS

This year, recycling islands are available across the camping areas at Rock im Park. There, you can separate and dispose of your waste directly on site.

The following materials can be recycled there:
• Packaging
• Paper & cardboard
• Glass
• Batteries & rechargeable batteries, e-cigarettes
• Hazardous waste, for example gas cartridges, electronic waste, etc.

Everything that cannot be recycled belongs in the residual waste bins. Together, we want to keep this waste stream as small as possible.

Locations: at the shower camps in the VFP area and between CP8 and 9. You can also find the locations on the map and in the app.

Opening hours:
Fri – Sun: 10:00 – 20:00
Mon: 06:00 – 18:00

Staff on site will gladly support you with proper waste separation.

UMWELT ROCKY

Keep your campsite clean and join the Umwelt Rocky contest.
With a bit of luck, you could win tickets for next year.

Once again this year, we are delighted to welcome dedicated partners from NGOs and initiatives to the festival. Look forward to exciting activities, inspiring conversations, and valuable insights on sustainability, social engagement, and community spirit.

Aktion Knochenmarkspende Bayern / Bone Marrow Donation Campaign Bavaria

The Bone Marrow Donation Campaign Bavaria is deeply committed to this cause: At Rock im Park, you can get typed right on the spot. Join this important movement and help save lives. Together against leukemia!

Kein Bock auf Nazis / No Way with Nazis

Kein Bock auf Nazis (KBAN) is an initiative against right-wing extremism and racism. Since 2006, we have been supporting, connecting, and educating teenagers and young adults on the topics of the shift to the right, racism, and neo-Nazis. We speak out. We inspire. We help people take action. At our booth at Rock im Park, you can chat with us, browse our selection of trinkets and political merchandise, and get decorated with our “Stamps Against the Right” to spread our message to the world!

Mobile Jugendarbeit / Mobile Youth Services

As always, the Mobile Youth Services team from the City of Nuremberg’s Youth Welfare Office will be on site with their non-alcoholic cocktail bar between Entrance B and D.

Here, you can party safely while enjoying delicious non-alcoholic (frozen) cocktails and slushies, take a break, play foosball, game, relax, and much more.

Test your knowledge with the alcohol quiz. As a giveaway, you’ll receive the Rock(K)it, which is packed with helpful items to make your festival experience safer.

Do you have questions, need advice, or require support? Experienced youth workers from the Open Child and Youth Services program will be available both at the on-site booth and throughout the festival grounds to assist you.

Amnesty International

We, the Nuremberg chapter of Amnesty International, are committed, as in previous years, to upholding human rights. This applies above all to political prisoners, who are often detained without a court ruling simply because they are seen as a threat to the country’s system. We have documented several individual cases of human rights violations (petitions), which we intend to present to interested parties both in writing (on A4 sheets) and verbally. Those interested will have the opportunity to sign these petitions (e.g., to seek leniency in detention). After the event (Rock im Park) concludes, the signed petition sheets will be sent by mail to the heads of state of the relevant countries or their representatives.

In many cases in the past, petitions by Amnesty International have been successful; political prisoners have had their sentences reduced or have even been released from detention.

Verbraucherzentrale Bayern / Bavarian Consumer Advice Center

The Bavarian Consumer Advice Center provides free, independent information on energy, the environment, and your rights as a consumer. With interactive activities like a sorting game, a quiz, and a wheel of fortune,

you can test your knowledge of reusable items, labels, and festival rights. You can also charge your phone at our solar charging station—stay powered up all day at the festival!

Campus M University

Your festival lineup is complete, but what about your future? Stop by the Campus M University info booth and plan the headliner for your career!

Lebenshilfe Nürnberg e.V.

Lebenshilfe Nürnberg supports children, teenagers, and adults with intellectual or multiple disabilities—in their daily lives, at work, during their free time, and throughout all stages of life. At our booth, you’ll find a place to relax and get creative, and you’ll have the chance to spin the wheel of fortune.

Lebensmittelretten & Nachhaltigkeit Nürnberg e.V.

We at LEBENS-mittel-RETTER are thrilled to be back again this year! As always, we’ll be on-site to collect any usable items that festival-goers no longer want to take home. Whether it’s food, returnable bottles, hygiene products, or camping gear—we’ll pass everything on to the homeless aid organization “Heinzelmännchen für OHA’s.”

Sea-Eye e.V.

Sea-Eye is a German civilian maritime rescue organization that has been rescuing people in distress in the central Mediterranean since 2015. With its ships and crews, Sea-Eye provides humanitarian aid where government support is often lacking—independently, in solidarity, and supported by thousands of supporters. In addition to rescue operations at sea, Sea-Eye also advocates politically and socially for human rights, safe migration routes, and a society based on solidarity.

SEA PUNKS e.V.

The Sea Punks are a volunteer-run maritime rescue project dedicated to helping refugees and fostering a society based on solidarity. Since 2023, we have been using our ship, the “Sea Punk I,” to assist people on the dangerous refugee route in the central Mediterranean—providing life jackets, supplies, and assistance in emergency situations. Behind the project is a Germany-wide network of dedicated people from a wide variety of fields, united by the desire not to look away, but to actively help. We—the Sea Punks—stand for solidarity, anti-racism, and a society in which people fleeing persecution are welcome.

Bayerische Landeszentrale für politische Bildungsarbeit / Bavarian State Agency for Political Education

The Bavarian State Agency for Political Education invites you to discover the Democracy Course at our booth at Rock im Park—featuring interactive stations, publications, and giveaways that encourage political engagement in a playful way. Visitors can discuss issues together in a relaxed atmosphere, learn more, and experience the offerings of outreach political education firsthand. Dictator can throwing, a naturalization test, a VR tour of the former Nazi party rally grounds, a music and politics quiz, and opinion-sharing stations—there’s plenty to do!

UNICEF

Stop by the UNICEF Nuremberg University Group booth to learn more about our work and UNICEF’s projects—with a wheel of fortune and little surprises!

We’re also collecting your returnable bottles: With every donation, you’re supporting UNICEF’s initiatives for a good cause.