Yours & Owls is going greener this year with a plastic-free push and pre-festival tree planting initiative.

We already know that Y&O is bringing the biggest and best line-up to Wollongong this year, with nearly 80 bands playing across two days this September long weekend, but now they're going greener too.

Organisers have partnered with local groups Plastic Free Wollongong and Blue Citizen to replace all plastic water bottles, straws, cutlery, and takeaway food containers with reusable and compostable alternatives, aiming to reduce over 15,000 plastic items from ending up the rubbish heap.

This eco-minded push builds on the festival reducing waste last year, collecting over 50,000 cans and 25,000 cups from punters in order to minimise the festival's footprint on the local environment. A win for the Wollongong community.

Yours & Owls will also be hosting a day of tree plating before the festival kicks off, planting 500 new native species in a bit of bush regeneration on 16 August. If you sign up to take part in the planting, you could win yourself one of 20 tickets up for grabs to the sold out festival.

Check out details here, recap the line-up below

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Yours & Owls 2018

Saturday 29 & Sunday 30 September - Wollongong, NSW

Angus & Julia Stone

Peking Duk

Alison Wonderland

Jungle Giants

Methyl Ethel

Ocean Alley

Hockey Dad

D.D Dumbo

Middle Kids

Cub Sport

Alex The Astronaut

Alice Ivy

Big White

Boy Toy

Clews

Dear Seattle

Destroyer

Didirri

E^ST

Frtiz

Hellions

Jack River

Jess Locke

Johnny Hunter

Liars

Listener

Luca Brasi

Maddy Jane

Mallrat

Mere Women

Mezko

Moaning Lisa

Nyxen

Obscure Hail

Pist Idiots

Polaris

Press Club

Psychedelic Porn Crumpets

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever

Step-Panther

Stonefield

The Vanns

Tiny Little Houses

Touch Sensitive

Tropical F**k Storm

Tumbleweed

Yahtzel (live)

You Beauty