| Reading festival aftermath - 21:13 - Aug 31 with 2266 views | ElderGrizzly |
Probably the same people who complain about plastic pollution and climate change… |  | | |  |
| Reading festival aftermath - on 21:16 - Aug 31 with 2205 views | Guthrum |
Glastonbury was always the same. A sea of rubbish swept up by the litter-pickers early each morning, then a vast mass of abandoned tents and broken gazebos at the end. |  |
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| Reading festival aftermath - on 21:18 - Aug 31 with 2173 views | ElderGrizzly |
| Reading festival aftermath - on 21:16 - Aug 31 by Guthrum |
Glastonbury was always the same. A sea of rubbish swept up by the litter-pickers early each morning, then a vast mass of abandoned tents and broken gazebos at the end. |
Sad that it is an accepted practice now | | | |
| Reading festival aftermath - on 21:28 - Aug 31 with 2097 views | Guthrum |
| Reading festival aftermath - on 21:18 - Aug 31 by ElderGrizzly |
Sad that it is an accepted practice now |
People would turn up, buy a tent and sleeping bag from the on-site Millets, then just leave them there at home-time.
A charity came up with the idea of collecting them for use by refugees in Africa. But it took months to clean the mud and vomit off the reclaimed tents, so that didn't work out.
Even more farcical was the year of the "green tent pegs", allegedly made of potato, or some other biodegradeable material, which were handed out free. Unfortunately, they simply broke when you tried to hammer them into hard soil. Tho I did hear of people trying to cook and eat them. | |
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| Reading festival aftermath - on 21:29 - Aug 31 with 2080 views | BlueBadger |
| Reading festival aftermath - on 21:28 - Aug 31 by Guthrum |
People would turn up, buy a tent and sleeping bag from the on-site Millets, then just leave them there at home-time.
A charity came up with the idea of collecting them for use by refugees in Africa. But it took months to clean the mud and vomit off the reclaimed tents, so that didn't work out.
Even more farcical was the year of the "green tent pegs", allegedly made of potato, or some other biodegradeable material, which were handed out free. Unfortunately, they simply broke when you tried to hammer them into hard soil. Tho I did hear of people trying to cook and eat them. |
Probably better for you than the average festival burger, in fairness. |  |
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| Reading festival aftermath - on 21:33 - Aug 31 with 2048 views | Guthrum |
| Reading festival aftermath - on 21:29 - Aug 31 by BlueBadger |
Probably better for you than the average festival burger, in fairness. |
Loads of nice food stalls at Glasto (if you avoided the ubiquitous overpriced cheese crepes). Tho, being crew, we had a canteen. | |
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| Reading festival aftermath - on 21:42 - Aug 31 with 1993 views | MerseyBlue |
It's shameful that this still goes on.
When I was younger there was always this rumour that spread around the place that the tents would be recycled. I remember being mocked by friends for packing up my £10 tent from Tesco and lugging it through the fields, to the bus and then through the mammoth queue at the train station.
I remember having to clean it out when I got home, but I'm not sure what my dad did with it after it had been purged of puke and dried on the line. I certainly never used it again, although as a tent that didn't do much of a job of keeping you dry brand new, it wouldn't have been good for much with several burn holes. I'm certain he would have tried to recycle it but I'm not sure if that was even possible back in the early 2000s.
I moved away from "disposable" tents after my second year of festivals and never looked back. I actually bought myself a nice new one not long before the pandemic. Looking forward to getting to finally put the white elephant to use at some point next year! |  |
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| Reading festival aftermath - on 21:50 - Aug 31 with 1940 views | Dubtractor |
It is disgusting behaviour, but trust me, none of the current Reading festival clientele would be eco warriors. It really isn't that sort of festival at all. |  |
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| Reading festival aftermath - on 22:10 - Aug 31 with 1784 views | dominiciawful |
| Reading festival aftermath - on 21:50 - Aug 31 by Dubtractor |
It is disgusting behaviour, but trust me, none of the current Reading festival clientele would be eco warriors. It really isn't that sort of festival at all. |
Isn't it full of trashy, cringey 16-year-olds who think they're hard/dress like skanks and are done up on ketamine?... Or something like that. |  |
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| Reading festival aftermath - on 06:37 - Sep 1 with 1481 views | bluelagos |
| Reading festival aftermath - on 21:50 - Aug 31 by Dubtractor |
It is disgusting behaviour, but trust me, none of the current Reading festival clientele would be eco warriors. It really isn't that sort of festival at all. |
Sums up the entitled attitude of much of society today, interested in getting as much out without apparently giving a sh1t about the impact on the world around them?
When did this become normalised? Saw someone tslking about Snowdon the other day "If you can carry it up the mountain, you can take it away too"
Sounding like a grumpy old man, but the news reports on this yesterday were quite enlightening. I usually give younguns a free ride, especially at the moment, but those pics tell a story of entitled little sh1ts tbh. |  |
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| Reading festival aftermath - on 06:52 - Sep 1 with 1454 views | tivo |
| Reading festival aftermath - on 22:10 - Aug 31 by dominiciawful |
Isn't it full of trashy, cringey 16-year-olds who think they're hard/dress like skanks and are done up on ketamine?... Or something like that. |
Used to be the opposite when I was going (10-15 years ago) - it was a rock festival so had all the Greebo and Indie Kids.
What you're describing was at V (chelmsford) and places. Looking at the lineup for this year it's certainly moved to a much more mixed festival.
TBF at least it's not on fire like it was every night when I used to go. T'was mayhem. But each year was a great experience. Oh to be young again. |  | | |
| Reading festival aftermath - on 07:31 - Sep 1 with 1346 views | MattinLondon |
| Reading festival aftermath - on 22:10 - Aug 31 by dominiciawful |
Isn't it full of trashy, cringey 16-year-olds who think they're hard/dress like skanks and are done up on ketamine?... Or something like that. |
Think you’re getting confusing it with South Essex. |  | | |
| Reading festival aftermath - on 08:07 - Sep 1 with 1276 views | WeWereZombies |
To think that I used the doss bag (a person sized jiffy bag) that I bought for around 40p at Weeley Festival in 1971 a second time at Bardney the next year and probably at Reading later in 1972 before it finally gave up the ghost and became thin cardboard filled with polystyrene beads. Even then I must have taken it home and stored it in the loft in the hope that I could somehow have brought it back to life. We didn't even entertain the thought of taking a tent to a festival, you got in the arena and claimed your space - which you held onto for three days against all comers and if it rained then you got out a sheet of plastic and held it over you. |  |
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| Reading festival aftermath - on 09:07 - Sep 1 with 1156 views | GeoffSentence |
| Reading festival aftermath - on 21:33 - Aug 31 by Guthrum |
Loads of nice food stalls at Glasto (if you avoided the ubiquitous overpriced cheese crepes). Tho, being crew, we had a canteen. |
I did litter picking at Glasto a couple of times. We had a canteen, it was all vegan and frankly it was pretty tasteless, lots and lots of beans. |  |
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| Reading festival aftermath - on 09:18 - Sep 1 with 1123 views | Bellevueblue |
a lot of my mates used to leave their tents because they only cost £10 and were so shoddy they were only fit for one use. Make tents decent quality and £50+ and you'd hope the waste would be reduced. | | | |
| Reading festival aftermath - on 09:20 - Sep 1 with 1118 views | Wallingford_Boy |
Machines come in and just hoover it all up, no biggy.
The area around the site was ok, everyone disposed of rubbish in bins. |  |
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| Reading festival aftermath - on 09:46 - Sep 1 with 1069 views | Cheltenham_Blue |
| Reading festival aftermath - on 09:20 - Sep 1 by Wallingford_Boy |
Machines come in and just hoover it all up, no biggy.
The area around the site was ok, everyone disposed of rubbish in bins. |
What happens to it once its been hoovered up?
Dumped in landfill? No biggy [Post edited 1 Sep 2021 9:59]
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