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What a shit hole state they leave it in. I always hoped all the decent abandoned tents would go off to refugees etc but looking at the pile they've made maybe not. What I would like to know is where some of them get their air beds from as I've never had one stay inflated for more than 12 pissing hours!
Bet he was was really looking for some acid and a teenth to take the edge off
People are twunts.
I wouldn't be going into those tents without a hazmat suit on.
That is a shocking waste though. Throwaway society at it's best.
There must be thousands of tents left behind.
Reckon they must have found a body in one over the years too 😕
Lazy pigs! I'd like to think none of my friends would dream of doing this.
This is one of the main reasons I don't go to festivals any more. I can't really enjoy myself knowing I'm part of something like that, even though I've never left anything at a festival. (No, I'm not probably not fun at parties am I?)
I have worked it to my advantage though. I've scavenged some great stuff from festivals. A 6 man, 2 bedroomed Outwell tent, with all the bags, labels still attached. A nice little 3 man Highlander tent I've used for years. A really good stainless steel saucepan I got when I was a student maybe 8 or 9 years ago and still use daily. God knows what other stuff I've forgotten about.
Last time I went to Glastonbury I pulled a massive flysheet off a pile of rubbish on the Sunday night. I've made two tarps for bivvying out of it, a hammock and some lightweight bags for a folding bike.
I suppose, as a proportion of how much the sodding weekend costs in total, a tent is nothing. If the organisers cared they wouldn't do it anymore, surely.
Speechless really. Depressing.
Some of the refugee groups we work with go down to festivals after the event, get buttloads of stuff that finds its way to a lot of very grateful people.
One man's rubbish and all that...
Disgrace. How many of those people will be clicking on "save the planet" links ?
Tickets are clearly too cheap if people can afford to leave behind £100's worth of stuff
As the 800-strong litter-picking crew begin the mammoth task of clearing an estimated 1,650 tonnes of waste – including 5,000 abandoned tents, 6,500 sleeping bags, 400 gazebos, 54 tonnes of cans and plastic bottles, 41 tonnes of cardboard, 66 tonnes of scrap metal, 3,500 airbeds, 2,200 chairs and 950 rolled mats – it has crossed my mind that I could return as part of their team. I’d get some satisfaction from mitigating the ingratitude of people who don’t give a damn about keeping the farm clean for each other and the wildlife. I’d still be angry, though: the rubbish gets cleared up but the people don’t learn. It’s probably best I just stay away.
Tickets a clearly too expensive for people poor enough to consider something like a tent valuable to afford to go.
Not just glastonbury festival that has that problem, we used to organise the dance tents at our local festival (wickerman festival sw scotland) for 13 odd years and the amount of rubbish left lying around on a sunday/monday was utterly depressing, the end of a festival is a bit of a downer at the best of times but to walk round a site afterwards and see a mass of deserted gear and rubbish akin to a public dump used to boil my piss. If you carry it in then there is no reason you cannot carry it out, or at the very least take it to the many collection points that were scattered around the site. I fail to see how the sustainability of festivals can continue if people leave stuff lying around - surely it would not be too much additional work to designate a pitch to individual tents and mark them so that these who leave items behind can be pulled up and either fined or made to tidy up after themselves.
Thankfully these days i choose to go the many small, informal non-commercial festival gatherings that continue throughout the Galloway hills, where utmost respect for the land and surroundings is paramount and as we all know each other the general vibe is a damn site more pleasant.
Some folk are just a pox on humanity though and to be deterred/avoided at all costs.
And they had Adele and Coldplay.*shudders*
Christ almighty that's some filthy horrible bastards right there. I had reet good tut at some blokes who didn't seal all their waste bags left on their pitch when leaving the Goodwood festival a couple of weeks ago! I'd have a bleedin heart attack if I seen that shit first hand. Unbelievable scenes.
I grew up on the festival circuit in the 70s/80s and the problem these days is a distinct lack of hippies.
Jesus - used to go a lot and liberated a fair few tents on my way out on the Monday morning - but i don't suppose i realised how bad it was - 5 nights of glasto does that to you
no interest in going anymore - not with Adele & Coldplay headlining - and not with this shambles
Shame - some of the best nights of my life were had in those muddy fields 🙁
canny say it concerns me, the organisers responsibility to clean, so they just need to account for that on the ticket price. Don't really see the problem. expecting a tidy site after a few hundred thousand people havbe been through it for 5/6 days is unrealistic.
canny say it concerns me, the organisers responsibility to clean.
nice touch 🙄
expecting a tidy site after a few hundred thousand people havbe been through it for 5/6 days is unrealistic.
you carried it in, you can carry it out. and they don't expect it, they manage it
In a post Brexit era there will be a proportion of the U.K. population living in those discarded tents, on that site for years to come.
Why not just leave them standing now? Save taking them down to erect them again.
HTH's
Edukator - Reformed Troll
Tickets a clearly too expensive for people poor enough to consider something like a tent valuable to afford to go.
My last "festival" tent cost about 25 quid from one of the bargain shops, expressly so that if it got trashed it was worth nothing - saying that it lasted about 5 years of lazy car boot camping.
How very depressing.More money than sense.& the litter...grr
I've worked quite a few festivals over the years, all of them dance orientated and that video up there looks quite tame compared to some of the horrors I've witnessed. 😯
Depressing.
Just proves that most people are stupid and lazy.
I think if I'd had to watch Adele and Coldplay I'd have just abandoned all my possessions too.
Although personally I'd never leave stuff like that behind, im too tight,
The faux outrage of Stw's audi driving iPhone loving crew with a carbon footprint the size of Tredegar ticks all the old codger daily mail, youth hating boxes.
Fortunately its Glastonbury, so im sure the organisers make sure it all gets recycled or passed on to those who need it, so it's all good in the end
I always assumed it was cheap 'lucky if they last the weekend' quality tents that got abandoned but a lot of those look half decent. I really don't get leaving behind folding chairs as well, they can't take much additional effort to take out with you.
I hope people dont drop metal and wire into those fields. I'm a small animal vet, but as far as i recall from my college days the cows on that farm will get chest infections and pericarditis if they swallow metal spikey stuff left in the grass. Their strong stomach contractions pierce it out of the lining forwards. He loves his farm, i'm guessing they must sweep and metal detect it after. Interesting to know if they get any bovine problems with that.
I think if I'd had to watch Adele and Coldplay I'd have just abandoned all [s]my possessions too[/s] [b]hope[/b].
FTFY
they do ( i think ) a finger tip search to pull all the fag ends as these are bad for the cows too.
i was there a few years ago trying to talk people out of dropping these. i spoke to a few people who's response was basically 'i've paid a lot of money to be here and the litter pick is part of that'. 🙄
presumably the same sense of entitlement that leaves our towns and cities streets covered in litter too.
Brexiteers, all of them.
HTH's.
I think that is assumed by a lot of people who leave it.Fortunately its Glastonbury, so im sure the organisers make sure it all gets recycled or passed on to those who need it, so it's all good in the end
From previous years threads - it doesn't appear to be true (hence that big pile in the video). Too difficult to make sure everything is present, undamaged, packed, clean, etc.
As the video mentions there are drop-off points where you can pack it up and leave it for charity.
canny say it concerns me, the organisers responsibility to clean.
I think that kind of sums up a lot of what is wrong with 'society' in that it's always someone else's problem, and there is no need to take any responsibility for you own actions.
Fortunately its Glastonbury, so im sure the organisers make sure it all gets recycled or passed on to those who need it, so it's all good in the end
How? It becomes "waste" at the point of discard under EA rules. What doesn't get "acquired" will be off to landfill. Glastonbury has been prosecuted by the EA in the past.
We were at the Eroica festival in Derbyshire and saw almost no litter the whole weekend, so it can be done.
So many kettles
Although yes they want their arses kicking, we went to festivals and tidied up when we left, took our tents home cos that's what you do when you're not a prick.
I'm guessing there weren't 80,000 u30 yo off their tits clamouring to get back to humdrum on Monday at Eroica. It's volume of people really. I'm guessing a few 10s of thousands cleared up after themselves.
I went to the Outback Eclipse Festival in the Flinders ranges in 2002, and while it was only small, on leaving the waste left behind was minimal, - but then 5,000 psytrance hippies do try to be clean. During the rave people were going around cleaning up, helping out. It wasnt all just me me me.
surely it would not be too much additional work to designate a pitch to individual tents and mark them so that these who leave items behind can be pulled up and either fined or made to tidy up after themselves.
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Yeah, not much work. Only 135,000 ticketholders, tents in sizes from tiny to behemoth, and groups that want to camp together. Oh, and actually enforcing it when people come through the gates first thing on Wednesday and find out their pitch is in a field miles from anywhere.
water pollution IIRC. not desireable and they've put quite a bit of effort in to preventing it in future.Glastonbury has been prosecuted by the EA in the past.
I'm not defending it, but there is a reclaimed tent + camping equipment sale on 23rd July, with proceeds going to charity- so at least some of it isn't going to landfill.
I know in the past local Cadet units have helped to clear the site and been able to take their pick of the tents left behind. Was quite useful for them, especially for the kids who didn't have enough to buy their own. Some are just in a shocking state though and I wouldn't fancy assessing whether it's mud or excrement on the inside of them!
I went last year and by the Sunday night there were volunteers dismantling tents already left behind by early leavers, all to be sent overseas for charity.
The guys in the tent next to us left behind their very nice brand new tent, camp beds, chairs and sleeping bags and they told us they do the same every year (and had been for something like the last 15). Their view was the lot cost them the same as they'd spend on hotels for a weekend and just wanted to get up and off on the Monday morning.
If it wasn't for the fact we were lugging all our stuff back I'd have taken it all myself.
Looks a bit like the tent site at Decathlon's on a Saturday afternoon...
I was at last years Glasto and got woken up early on Monday morning by the people next to us smashing up their camping gear just for laughs.
They had a massive tent that looked half decent, some camping chairs, a few air beds and other cooking stuff all smashed up or broken.
When I questioned them what they were doing and why don't they just donate it to charity, or at the very least leave it in good condition for someone else, I was told to "p**s off mate" and they can do what they want as it's their stuff.
I found the whole encounter a bit depressing. The crazy amount of waste just from one group.
It becomes "waste" at the point of discard under EA rules. What doesn't get "acquired" will be off to landfill.
Not quite right. Material becomes a waste at the point that it is discarded or it is intended to discard, but it comes down to definitions. The people leaving things behind haven't discarded they've abandoned them, practically it's been fly tipped on private land and it's the organisers that are responsible for 'discarding' it. Therefore they are able to choose to not let discard it and instead resell/use it.
In the good old days before the mainstream infiltration, a good mate of mine used to stay on an extra week to do some tatting..
This was the days before aldi tents, hygienic wipes and waitrose bags and he used to do very well..
He'd certainly find 'desirable goods' each year with enough resale value to see him through to Christmas, usually with a dapper new wardrobe and a decent pair of boots as a bonus..
I imagine the best you can hope for these days is an occasional unopened can of energy drink, discarded One Direction stickers and soiled primani jeggings
This is how people behave in large groups.
The free festival scene was ruined because it became too big.
Too many weekend drunkards and small town smack dealers looking for chaos and a fresh market.
Bit wiser when rave came around, but the same principle applies - some things can only work and are best enjoyed amongst like-minded individuals, on a smaller scale.
Glastonbury has evolved to embody everything it proposed to despise.
How could it not?
Anarchy for a weekend and mindless conformity as a badge of honour.
Brexiteers, all of them.
How d'you work that one out, then?
I was watching a news item on BBC Points West last night, about the stuff discarded by students at their lodgings after they finish Uni, and apart from the lack of mud, and the smaller numbers involved, the amount was still staggering, bedding, clothes, shoes, electronics, (including two almost new iPhones, one a 6s). It's sorted, bagged up and sold, the money going to charities, an estimated £120,000 was made from the last lot.
The thing is, stuff really is so cheap as to be disposable, when factoring in costs of any on-site accommodation that's available, and the hassle of packing up a wet, muddy tent and sleeping bags.
I brought back my tent from the IoW Festival, because I wasn't going to waste a £75 tent, or the £17 air mattress, because I can't replace it with anything similar, or the sleeping bag, which was £40, because it's a really nice bag.
I'll also be using it in a few weeks time at Greenman in Wales.
I hate throwing anything away, I'll keep using stuff for years, but when the whole kit for a weekend can be had for less than £100, then I can see why many really can't be arsed with the pain of packing it all back up.
A friend of mine bought a really nice tent for Glastonbury a couple of years back, packed up to come home on the coach, left her trolley by the loading bay for the driver to load, and when she got home, found someone had nicked the lot!
It's become my stock answer for arseholes.
It also depends on whether you've got space to store stuff. If you're in a flat or apartment you don't necessarily have too for a whole set of camping kit, this is exacerbated by cheap (essentially disposable) camping kit that gets marketed at festival goers.
That's no excuse for not packing it up and taking it to the charity drop off.
Ridiculous state of affairs the lazy arsehats. It's not even like most of the tents were just 20 quid throwers. I remember last time we went there were tents being nicked left right and centre during the festival!!
Would never go to one these regulated party spaces. There a bit Las Vegas aren't they!
Years back, I used to work on the festival circuit, and the wobbling was fantastic. People leave alcohol..... loads of it.
Considering that the festival is meant to be all about getting back to a better place, sustainability and being aware of Greenpeace and the likes, it really stinks
Go and get of yer head - that's half the fun - but carrying a tent out is hardly difficult
Make it difficult:
Weighed on the the way in, weighed on the way out.
Any difference added or subtracted anatomically.
Weighed on the the way in, weighed on the way out.
Any difference added or subtracted anatomically.
Just get a receipt every-time you go to the loo. (D Adams)
I can scoop that...I used the put up the marquees when I was at uni, mankiest find ever was a full colostomy bag between two concession tents at TITP,next to the used condom. But yeah, got a sweet wee NF tent, some wee shite had probably borrowed it without asking and just left it,and piles of tinnies as well.There is a rise in the concept of the shit tent as well now,so I wouldn't be unzipping tents.