Checkout this video which shows all the tents and kit left at Glastonbury. Such a waste! I really hope they collect it all up and send it to the Red Cross or something. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y70LCoK-XMA
Tents left at Glastonbury!
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I read somewhere that the tents and other kit they collect all goes to charities :
http://resource.co/article/discarded-glastonbury-tents-be-donated-refugees-11204
http://resource.co/article/discarded-glastonbury-tents-be-donated-refugees-11204
Yeah, there are several charities that collect up all the leftover kit and the good stuff is either sold on for the charity or used in disaster relief etc.
The thing is that it is cheap as chips kit, cheaper than the ticket to get in, and a lot cheaper than a hotel or B&B or similar.
It isn't just Glasto, it is many other of the festivals mentality...
It isn't just Glasto, it is many other of the festivals mentality...
Often the mentality of a huge majority of festival going types, i used to work behind the scenes at many of the biggest outdoor music festivals in Europe and many folks who attend these see the clean up as part of what their tickets have paid for and they wander around the place leaving filth in their wakes not even using simple things like litter bins, leaving time is all about taking away as little as possible and getting out of there as quick as they can
Too true
After Download and the deluge and the mud there was so much stuff!
Next to us was a teepee that had leaked and just left. If I wasn't with a group who were on the clock to get home I would have gone back and wombled that and fixed it
Were you unlucky enough to encounter the new trend of bringing a bottomless latrine tent? Disgusting people!
Compared with a hotel or B&B the same week in the area that is still cheap as chips, especially when you multiply by two, four or six people sharing.
Thankfully the only clean up crew i used to work was the final site inspection where we were all (just about everyone who was left on site at that point) in a big line about 1.5m apart walking slowly looking at the floor making sure that not even a single cigarette butt or drugs packet was left on site, many places that the events were held had penalty fines in place per item found once you had officially left the site and declared it clean
I suppose if you were to look for a silver lining to the waste aspect.......a charity would wait a long time to get so much stuff donated
My parents picked up an outland oakland xl tent with extension (rrp £760) that a couple had dropped in the bins at a campsite, so it's not just festivals
There's another huge festival going group of shabby, messy people = those who try to summit Everest.
Have you ever seen the mess that they have left behind?
At least the cheap(?)abandoned kit you're faced with can be used again somehow.
Have you ever seen the mess that they have left behind?
At least the cheap(?)abandoned kit you're faced with can be used again somehow.
I was at this year's Glastonbury (my first ever!) & definitely think it's a class thing, especially with the bigger tents.
Us northerners (& those on lower incomes) took our tents. The rest left them. I was shocked at how few pop ups there were left! They are the ones that cost £20 so easily throwawayable.
There was no way I was leaving my bargain £15 argos pro action hike lite/tiger paws 1 man!
It wasn't just Glastonbury though. I was at Willowman the weekend before & that's only about 1000 people. I actually took home one of the left tents from there lol a nice 2 man regatta with big porch. Gifted it on to my brother & nephew so they can do cycle camping
Us northerners (& those on lower incomes) took our tents. The rest left them. I was shocked at how few pop ups there were left! They are the ones that cost £20 so easily throwawayable.
There was no way I was leaving my bargain £15 argos pro action hike lite/tiger paws 1 man!
It wasn't just Glastonbury though. I was at Willowman the weekend before & that's only about 1000 people. I actually took home one of the left tents from there lol a nice 2 man regatta with big porch. Gifted it on to my brother & nephew so they can do cycle camping
I think you're probably right, it would never have dawned on me to leave anything behind no matter how muddy or broken. My dad would've killed me for one thing, things were only thrown out when they physically could no longer be saved or repurposed.
I also wonder though if it is a damning indictment on the incessant consumerism today, you see a similar thing with smart phones.
Back in the day a Nokia was for life now smartphones are only for a season!?
I keep getting phonecalls telling me I'm due for an upgrade and as I try to explain my phone works fine and I'm very happy thanks, I can definitely hear the condescension from them when they assume I don't understand they're offering me a newer shinier model.
I've been to several festivals and its all the same, hundreds of tents, as well as other bits of kit are left behind since its too much hassle to pack it away. Every time I've went I've took a cheap tent and sleep kit, purely for the reason that you aren't always there to look after it and you don't know who's going about. I've seen people at the end of a few festivals douse their tents in lighter fluid, white spirit etc.. and light them, sleeping kit and all, it's simply the mentality of some. Admittedly there's been a few times the kit I've used has got more damaged than what would be worth repairing so its been binned.
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