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[whisty]

How can you expect people to clear a weekends worth of rubbish up when they can't even put food/drink waste into or near a bin after part consumption. This is evident from the pig stye that exists around the Brothers area!  

It really winds me up & makes me feel ill to sit down next to an abandoned half eaten plate of some indescribable food stuff!

Edited by whisty, 18 October 2009 - 10:49 PM.

[droneoid]

Glastonbury is changing.

It used to be a free spirited festival where you could do whatever you wanted, without people judging you.. This also included dropping some litter if that's what you wanted to do.

I think the litter bugs get a hard time on these boards

[norainplease]

droneoid, on Oct 19 2009, 09:25 AM, said:

Glastonbury is changing.

It used to be a free spirited festival where you could do whatever you wanted, without people judging you.. This also included dropping some litter if that's what you wanted to do.

I think the litter bugs get a hard time on these boards

I really hope you are joking!  Either that or you're a fcuking idiot?  

Whether it is changing or not is irelevant, people should NOT be dropping litter and leaving their campsites like sh*tholes and the festival changing is no  excuse at all.  

Edited by norainplease, 19 October 2009 - 08:40 AM.

[Derby_Dave]

Our camping area was spotless except for two tied up rubbish bags. and it was really easy to do!  There are absolutely no excuses for leaving anything.

[cejx]

droneoid, on Oct 19 2009, 09:25 AM, said:

Glastonbury is changing.

It used to be a free spirited festival where you could do whatever you wanted, without people judging you.. This also included dropping some litter if that's what you wanted to do.

I think the litter bugs get a hard time on these boards

I hope this is supposed to be ironic... it certainly ain't funny.

[LondonTom]

daley, on Oct 18 2009, 12:23 PM, said:

T in the Park site is disgusting by Monday! Folk just dont care and leave stuff behind them on the ground! The amount of tents/chairs etc left is also terrible!

It was disgusting on the Saturday night tbh, the camping walk way all I could feel was rubbish squidging under my feet and the pigs who camped near us just left all their cans and stuff around them. I really don't get how people can't put their rubbish into bags, it makes it nicer and easier for you while your camping.

[Mel & Claire]

Glasto seemed to be worse this year than in 2008 I thought. There seemed to be a lot more litter in general by the Friday.

We never leave anything, even when our tent got jumped on and completely ruined at V this year we packed it up and brought it home. Can never understand people leaving chairs and tents and stuff, just because they can't be bothered to carry them home. It only adds to the expense the year after! And they managed to carry it all the way to the campsite anyway, what's the difference?
We always account for every tent peg, every scrap of litter, and we have a bin bag that we put up when pitching the tent that we put any rubbish in, and it goes in the bin when we leave! It's not hard. And you feel better afterwards.

[FunkyDenz]

I was guilty of leaving a mess this year, and feel bad about it.
We put our rubbish in bin bags but didn't take them to the bins, just piling them neatish in the middle of our campsite, and we left behind a gazebo (packed away) and a 3/4 full crate of Carling (it was on the Sunday afternoon so this might have got drunk that night).
I would have come back for the gazebo, but my friends were insistant on only taking one trip to the cars, and I was too tired / hungover to argue with them.

Next year I will make a point of clearing up properly and taking everything away with me.

I went some way to making ammends by making sure my campsite at The Big Chill was spotless and helping the litter crews by picking up several abandoned cups and plates during the festival.

[Keef]

This is our campsite just before the last job of taking the gazebo down and packing it up.  



By the time we left all that remained was a pile of unused firewood and some rubbish & recycling bags (all fully sorted/separated of course).  I even tidied up the remains of two camps next to us (They were pretty good actually, all I really did was consolidate all the rubbish and recycling).  Before we left I made everyone walk in a line across where we had camped, picking up butts, wet wipes, roll-up filters etc.

[cejx]

FunkyDenz, on Oct 19 2009, 12:46 PM, said:

I was guilty of leaving a mess this year, and feel bad about it.


Next year I will make a point of clearing up properly and taking everything away with me.

I went some way to making ammends by making sure my campsite at The Big Chill was spotless and helping the litter crews by picking up several abandoned cups and plates during the festival.

I am in no way being condescending when I say this, but excellent.  This is what life is all about... and I certainly have learned to be more aware over the years.  I see you went to tribal Gathering in 97.  I was there too and it was fecking ace!  However, I don't think I was quite so gung ho about litter dropping then and I too like to think that I've learned something over the years... one of the lessons, being more respectful of the people and environment around me.

[FunkyDenz]

cejx, on Oct 19 2009, 01:18 PM, said:

I am in no way being condescending when I say this, but excellent.  This is what life is all about... and I certainly have learned to be more aware over the years.  I see you went to tribal Gathering in 97.  I was there too and it was fecking ace!  However, I don't think I was quite so gung ho about litter dropping then and I too like to think that I've learned something over the years... one of the lessons, being more respectful of the people and environment around me.

I am certainly becoming more and more environmentally conscious these days, even to where I put cigarette butts on a night out, as there's very few ashtrays outside city bars.
Tribal Gathering '97 was my first festival and I really enjoyed what I remember of it. 2 Lone Swordsmen played an outstanding set, and I seem to remember AfroCelt being there too. I don't remember much of Kraftwerk's appearance, didn't even really know who they were, I was a naive 19 year old stooodent back then.

[benisright]

A lot of this thread is extremely lame, patronising and the like. There are seriously more important things to worry about than how people around you are messy.

[BonnetBird]

We always clean up our campsite, bin the rubbish, put it by the bins etc.

However - I get equally upset about the state of the main area, the food stalls, the bins around the stages etc. - this year the rubbish was flowing over and around the bins and was an absolute mess.  
I appreciate there cannot be someone on hand to empty the bins every 5 minutes, but with the bins in that state, people around think 'well why should I bother, there's nowhere to put the rubbish anyway'.

Perhaps it's been like this before but I only really noticed this year.

[londonlady]

All the rubbish makes me sad. There were only two of us, myself and my partner (we got there later and our friends were camped elsewhere) so we cleaned up our own campsite - then as we were leaving late, we cleared a circle around us as well. We were in no hurry to leave, so I think we managed to do a fairly decent clear of a roughly 5-10m circle. Most of that was rubbish picking, though some of it was selflessly rescuing a six-man tent in near-immaculate condition along with some camping stools, a brand new cool bag and a couple of bananas. We decided against picking up the five or six pop-up tents practically within arms reach and the two gazebos, couldn't be bothered to carry them.

But really, it's not hard to just pick up your damn rubbish!

On the other hand (as it's always tempting to post on these threads being whiter than white) I did also wee behind a tree on the Saturday night. Beer, what beer?

[Ponyegg]

For our group this year was better than last year which was much better then the previous year when we left tents and (rightly) felt guilty.

We do our best, take our own recycling bags down, have a designated camp cleaner, ensure there are bags tied to each tent for your own rubbish etc. During the festival we try to make sure our camp area is always clean when the last person shuts their tent. I even take around my own ashtray now.

What would be handy is if the bins themselves were cleaned more regularly. it's difficult to take the No Trace message seriously when the bins seem to never get emptied eg; the ones by the Pyramid stage were utterly overflowing at 6pm on the Wednesday night, doesn't bode well for the rest of the week.

2010 I intend to leave no trace apart from the light-green patch where the tent's been.

[Derby_Dave]

benisright, on Oct 19 2009, 02:28 PM, said:

A lot of this thread is extremely lame, patronising and the like. There are seriously more important things to worry about than how people around you are messy.

True, life has more serious issues but can you not see how unpleasant it can be to be surrounded by pigs who have no concern for anyone other than themselves because that is exactly what they are!!!

[rischbrit]

The festival is your 'home' for 5 days.... would you do the same at home? Drink a tin and leave it on the lounge floor? Or perhaps you do.... bring on Kim and Aggie!

Edited by rischbrit, 20 October 2009 - 11:05 AM.

[cejx]

benisright, on Oct 19 2009, 02:28 PM, said:

A lot of this thread is extremely lame, patronising and the like. There are seriously more important things to worry about than how people around you are messy.

I totally disagree.  Giving a shit for your immediate environment and those who use it is important. Environmental issues from picking up a fag butt to saving the whale is incredibly relevant today, and it is the little things that make a difference, and if this means clearing up your crap after 5 days in a field, then so be it.

As I have bored people with before on threads such as this... we tidy up, less litter pickers needed, less money spent on them etc etc etc.  There really is no need to leave the little bit of Somerset you've occupied for 5 days in a mess... if you do, its lazy and disrespectful.

In this case BenisNOTright

Edited by cejx, 20 October 2009 - 11:26 AM.

[FunkyDenz]

To further that point, the less money Eavis spends on litter pickers, the more money which can be given to Oxfam and Greenpeace, the greater the benefit to the global Environment and those who are suffering the worst of climate change.

[4AssedMonkey]

FunkyDenz, on Oct 20 2009, 12:30 PM, said:

To further that point, the less money Eavis spends on litter pickers, the more money which can be given to Oxfam and Greenpeace, the greater the benefit to the global Environment and those who are suffering the worst of climate change.

A fantastically relevant point.  People's laziness directly costing the charities, so why do it?  You wouldn't mug a collector would you.  Or would you?