Our local newspaper the "Perthshire Advertiser" have ran a story today informing us that apparently less than 100 unwanted tents were recycled after T In The Park.

Apparently, if tents were left in-situ they were not recycled - they would only be recycled if the person owning the tent packed it up and left it in the on-site deposit areas.

Did anyone on here think their tent would be recycled if they just left it set up?

I didn't care whether it would be recycled or not, I just wanted home.

We even left stuff in the tent

mine was rented, so no.... lol.
i was under the impression that they would recycle any that were still up tho, i left mine up at leeds last year and thought it would go somewhere nice!

I wuda thot if u had gone through all the effort of taking ur tent down and puting it back in the bag. You wud just carry it bak home

i remember seeing the tent recycle point but it was a pure trek from where we were so we just left ours where it was. we emptied all the crap into bin bags tho...

they put the tent recylce bit in such a ridicilour place like very close to the exit if there were several dotted around would have made more sense!

was it by the exit?
I thought I'd seen it up by the bit where silent disco etc were
however things do get a bit confused when you consume that much booze over a weekend..

they probley took one look at mie and thought no thanks after some ramdom scottish fella snaped it in two on the first night

So what does happen to tents that are left up? I know some of my pals left theirs up thinking it would go to africa! It was a decent tent too.

took down and binned i'd guess

Think there's a few 'opportunists' arrive by van and go and collect a lot of tents on the Monday, although not sure if they are still allowed

Um no.

The information leaflet said if you wanted to donate you tent to vampires in transylvania then to take it to the recycle drop off point.

I knew they had the recycling points so assumed the ones just left up would be destroyed and only ones actually packed into the recycling fellaes would be, erm, recycled.

As someone else said, if you're going to be packing your tent up then surely it's to take it home with you.

Not at all, it's not somebodys job to go around and pack up 20,000 tents to recycle.

Would not be too bad a job probably find loads of booze, some cash and even other cheeky stuff.

when you're leaving theres folk going about dismantling tents anyway, they should just stick them on the back of one of they buggies and recycle them as they go along

Aye big jobbies

Cheeky stuff?

There were 2 massive 8 man tents left next to us in almost perfect nick - over £100 worth of tent. I would of taken it home with me if i'd had any more room in the car!

i left my tent. if i could have been f**ked packing it up i'd have taken it home.

Jack n Jills etc

I dont understand why anyone would pack their tent up take it all the way to the exit, and then leave it. Im not suprised so few got recycled.

Same reason why people used to go to the effort of taking their glass bottles to recycle bins when they could quite easily chucked them in their normal rubbish. Some people actually care about these things.


A lot of people who go to TITP will buy a cheap tent for that weekend only and leave it rather than take it home and store it for a year. So this just gives them the option if they're feeling generous to pack it up and donate it to a good cause.

I was "recycling" a tent left by someone from here last year, was alot of work as it was a beast, when a few scavengers appeared & started taking an interest in the pile of poles & inner rooms I had left. A swift "OI eyes off thats mine" got rid of them & they went on their merry way with their barra collecting chairs, tents, etc.

My tent survived the weekend and I kinda like it so I took it home. My mate recycled his tho cos he couldnt be assed carryin it any further. I'd imagine thats the only reason people woulda left them at the recyclin point unless their tent was fecked or they were a good wee soul!

Our's broke when we were putting it up anyways, it would have been no use to anyone.

I felt quite bad about leaving mine, but cos it got trashed I had no other choice. Was going to take it home for next year aswell

Shame they never came and re-cycled the tent we left. I left my black skinny jeans in it. A lovely present for someone!

Our tent survived for another festival, despite one of the zips on the door breaking. Although if i had my way, the tent would've been left at T last year. But at least people who leave their tents are helpful to people who end up losing tent pegs.

until they found out you'd shat yourself

I wondered what the funny smell in the campsite was on the monday......!

I left a brand new £249.99 tent, 8 man dome

We got it for £149.99 from www.tentastic.co.uk

It's an absolute topper.

The last 3 years I'#ve went I've always left the tent, sleeping bags, chairs, lamps, blow up beds etc etc.

Bit of a knob i am eh!

Fair enough leaving a 30 quid tent out of argos, but something for that price? What's the point? It's just a big massive waste of money on your part.

It's your money though.

I'm camping next you next year

I left mine there, didn't really care what happened, it got broke on the second night after several people falling on it in the night.

I woke up on the sunday with a tent leaning on my tent. My neighbours had obviously just unpegged it, but it was annoying.

What was more annoying was the heavy object that landed on my shin while I was IN my tent in bed on the sunday night, nearly giving me a dead leg! All my mates heard was "OW! What the f**k was that!?". Only thing I could find outside the next day was a knackered sledge!

I left mine but only paid a tenner for it anyway so there was no way I was gonna take it down and carry it home.

I got the 3 man £20 quid tent from tesco, and it held up pretty well

I couldn't be arsed taking it down, but maybe I should have, cos it definitely had some uses left in it. Even the transylvanians would've appreciated it

I'm sure last year you could just leave it up and various charities were involved in the collection. (however I'm still struggling to remember this years, never mind last years so dont take my word for it )

All I know is that there was a lot of feckers stealing our tent pegs!

No-one deserves the shame of owning skinny jeans.

Skinny jeans are horrid, unless they are on a nice lassie that can pull it/them off, literally.