Ultra Music Festival proudly ushers within the fifth anniversary of its multi-award-winning sustainability program, ‘Mission: Home,’ marking a serious milestone of environmental accountability and business management. Since its inception in 2019, ‘Mission: Residence’ has educated 8.2 million individuals, diverted almost 400K kilos of waste and donated greater than 84K kilos of sources again to the group – all whereas driving lasting operational change throughout distributors, companions, employees, crew, and attendees. This system’s continued development reached new heights in 2025, executing a report 61 initiatives at Extremely’s sold-out twenty fifth anniversary and incomes a number of new sustainability honors.
Now, Extremely Music Competition has achieved A Greener Future’s prestigious “Greener Competition” certification, marking the primary time in 13 years {that a} U.S. competition of Extremely’s scale has secured its standing by this rigorous, internationally-respected evaluation program. A Greener Future is a acknowledged business chief, devoted to enhancing sustainability practices throughout all the stay occasions sector. They’ve licensed over 800 festivals throughout 32 international locations since 2007.
Extremely’s certification signifies a brand new stride ahead for U.S. festivals, being the primary home competition of this scale to satisfy heightened certification necessities, which have advanced quite a few occasions to maintain up with world sustainability requirements. It additionally marks the eleventh sustainability recognition that Extremely has obtained in ‘Mission: Residence’s’ 5-year lifespan.
‘Mission: Home’ was as soon as once more honored with the first Place SUNsational Award within the Sustainability Program class on the thirty first annual Florida Festivals and Events Association (FFEA) Conference & Expo in Orlando, Florida. This marked the third time in 5 years that Extremely Music Competition was celebrated statewide for its dedication to environmental accountability. With a community of over 5,500 occasions, the FFEA acknowledged 48 organizations as SUNsational Award winners out of over 200 candidates.
Extremely Music Competition was additionally honored as a part of IQ Journal’s 2025 Green Guardians, an annual checklist recognizing 20 organizations, occasions, artists, or suppliers who’re driving sustainability within the stay leisure sector. ‘Mission: Residence’ earned its place amongst a number of powerhouse artists, together with Coldplay and Huge Assault.
This recognition builds on a rising checklist of world accolades for Extremely’s sustainability management, together with being verified as “essentially the most intensive sustainability program throughout main U.S. digital music festivals” by environmental non-profit Debris Free Oceans and successful the Sustainability Team Award on the 2023 World Sustainability Awards ceremony. In 2024, ‘Mission: Residence’ was additional distinguished as a finalist for the World Sustainability Awards’ for its Sustainability Excellence Award, which acknowledges organizations setting new worldwide requirements in environmental and social accountability.
This 12 months’s program demonstrated Extremely’s continued dedication to waste discount, attaining a big milestone of 45% waste diversion throughout ‘Mission: Residence’s five-year lifetime, and showcasing Extremely‘s dedication to rescuing, repurposing, and recycling these beneficial sources. Over the previous 5 years, ‘Mission: Residence’ has diverted almost 400,000 kilos of waste from landfills – equal to the load of over 30 grownup African elephants. Alongside their returning recycling, composting, and donation efforts, ‘Mission: Residence’ launched a brand new glass restoration program in partnership with Glass for Life, bringing the overall variety of distinctive waste diversion streams to 9.
Extremely‘s waste administration companion Clean Vibes, a nationally acknowledged skilled in competition waste diversion, as soon as once more achieved 100% recyclables acceptance on the native facility whereas additionally efficiently managing a majority of the 9 waste streams. Moreover, they expanded the compost program in partnership with Renuable and maintained exceptionally clear competition grounds, even regardless of heavy rain and flooding. ‘Mission: Residence’ additionally sustained its cooking oil and mushy plastic waste diversion initiatives. Smooth plastics had been recycled in collaboration with native materials restoration specialists, Lady Green Recycling.
‘Mission: Residence’ continued its long-standing partnership with The Caring Place, a homeless outreach heart that has offered companies, meals, and shelter in South Florida since 1922. A lot of Extremely’s packages are rooted in supporting the local people, together with their meals rescue program, which has donated over 14,000 kilos of meals – the equal of almost 12,000 meals – and over 50,000 kilos of drinks to group companions over the previous three years. Based on The Caring Place’s Meals Service Supervisor, Anthony Perrone, “The meals and drinks rescued from this occasion enable us to serve the lads, ladies and kids of the Miami space, who wrestle to search out their subsequent meal – on common we serve 1,200 meals a day.”
By means of its partnerships with Recreate Miami and Florida Wood Recycling, Extremely continued certainly one of its largest waste-diversion efforts by weight, giving greater than 54,000 kilos of post-construction wooden a second life. Recreate Miami redistributed usable supplies to native creators, whereas the remaining wooden was diverted from landfills by reuse in native landscaping tasks.
Past waste diversion, the 2025 competition additionally reinstated its long-standing waste supply discount initiatives, together with free water refill stations, bans on Styrofoam and straws, and single-use plastic-free meals and basic admission bar service. Since ‘Mission: Residence’s inception, over 2.6 million plastic objects have been eradicated from coming into the waste stream. Collaboratively, occasion bar operations and meals distributors have achieved a powerful 91% discount within the varieties of single-use plastic current on the competition, equivalent to cups, straws, plates and cutlery, amongst others.
Extremely continued its dedication to Air pollution Prevention and Nature Preservation by its Leave No Tracemarketing campaign, beginning with pre-event on-line messaging to coach attendees, and lengthening to a bevy of on-site initiatives like employees and crew coaching; bodily and digital signage; accountable cigarette disposal; wildlife and vegetation safety; and partnering with wildlife specialists from Love the Everglades Movement. Further on-site measures embody spillage and runoff protocols; bans on confetti and free glitter; storm drain covers put in by ocean air pollution prevention firm SOP Technologies, and “Connect with Nature” shows to coach attendees about Bayfront Park’s pure components and Biscayne Bay’s delicate ecosystems.
‘Mission: Residence’ additionally boasts widespread Group Engagement efforts to encourage its viewers and inside companions, providing actionable steps and empowering future leaders. Extremely joined forces with 18 scholar volunteers and 21 native and regional companions to convey a number of program initiatives to life. New in 2025, a survey for ticketholders was carried out in partnership with a graduate thesis from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, to achieve perception of viewers views on sustainability, together with how ‘Mission: Residence’ impacts the fan expertise, what suggestions Extremely followers have for ‘Mission: Residence’ and the broader competition sustainability motion.
On the competition’s Eco Village, its 165,000 weekend attendees had been in a position to take part in instructional activations from 5 native environmental and social organizations current onsite, together with: Clean Miami Beach, Debris Free Oceans, Love the Everglades Movement F Fentanyl and CLEO Institute. Thousands and thousands of Ultranauts worldwide additionally realized about ‘Mission: Residence’ just about by the competition’s social media channels and the #ULTRALIVE stream.
Extremely’s twenty fifth anniversary 12 months introduced the addition of a brand new group occasion, ‘Mission: Residence’s first ‘Bayfront Bark’ Pet Adoption Occasion in partnership with Metropolis of Miami Police Division, Downtown Development AuthorityandMiami-Dade County Animal Services.
Additionally, new this 12 months, ‘Mission: Residence’ is offering Extremely followers ongoing alternatives to help area people organizations like Lotus House, the biggest ladies’s shelter within the U.S., by its partnership with Fandiem. Followers can donate to supply college provides, uniforms, and shallowness boosting sources for the shelter’s youngsters. In return, Extremely followers enter to win an unique journey to Extremely 2026, together with competition tickets, round-trip journey and resort, official Extremely merchandise, limited-edition twenty fifth anniversary equipment, premium mainstage viewing, a ‘Mission: Residence’ sustainability tour, and a devoted Fandiem concierge expertise. This initiative permits followers to make a significant affect in the neighborhood whereas partaking immediately with Extremely’s sustainability and social accountability efforts.
This system displays Extremely’s ongoing dedication to defending Biscayne Bay and Bayfront Park, decreasing environmental affect, and galvanizing constructive motion throughout their group, their business, and their world audiences. As ’Mission: Residence’ celebrates its fifth anniversary and prepares for 2026, it stays future-focused by persevering with to increase its affect, fostering environmental consciousness and significant engagement each on and off competition grounds for years to return.
