Tent walkabout post festival

[ian the worm]

Monday 8pm.

South Park 1 and Rigs Field.

 

Edited June 29, 2016 by ian the worm

[tjfish]

Love the farm, Leave no trace.

[Sidasta]

Truly shocking. It's not just pop-up tents either. Some of those tents are valuable and (other than the mud) in excellent condition. People bought these tents, some of them probably upwards of £200, and they're prepared to just leave them?

[Skoo]

Really disgraceful and makes me feel sick inside. 

[ian the worm]

Anyones?

[ManchesterGlasto]

Horrible. Just horrible. 

[Funkyfairy!]

I'm shocked and disgusted ... Why would you ? Our pop up broke while we were taking it down in cv east. We packaged it up, put it back in its bag and left in in the rubbish collection point ... 10 mins work that's all ! This has horrified me :-( 

[ian the worm]

[ian the worm]

[Avalon_Fields]

There has to be a way to stop all this. I knew tents were discarded, never quite realised how many there are left on site. Sometimes I don't know why the Eavis's put up with it all.

[holmz]

Some decent tents.. if anybody was allowed in after the festival to take them down

At least you didn't seem to see anything horrific leftover in the tents....!

[tjfish]

I normally take MORE home with me - Free chairs, tents etc.

Sadly this year I only grabbed a couple of chairs - but they'll get used in my back garden fo'sho!

Why can't everyone do this? - I know a lot does go to charity but a lot also doesn't.

[NoBallGames]

Lazy entitled twats...

The camping store on site was shocking to me. In the States there are no camping stores on site even for the biggest fests. You see those air mattresses everywhere. Chairs everywhere. They could minimize onsite waste by simply not offering solutions like huge blow up mattresses that are utterly ridiculous. If they didn't hike it in what makes you think they are going to hike it out? I'm sure some do but Thursday the amount of people walking around with those air mattresses purchased was mind boggling and was obvious many were not going to leave the farm. 

[Amy Lawn]

I had no idea it was anything like this bad. Really really shocked. On so many levels it's staggering this goes on; there's all the expensive gear that they just leave behind after paying for, and then there's the much worse lack of respect for the site and people who have to clean it up. Properly disgusting stuff.

[balti-pie]

Jeez  that's hugely depressing. My group of seven people - four tents - left behind precisely zero. One bag of rubbish, one bag of recycling, both placed into the dump areas afterwards. I felt properly guilty about having to bin my broken camping chair, my missus wanted me to carry it back to the car and bin it at home but I wasn't going to do that: it went in a rubbish pile, though. 

The people who have the patience to clear that site up afterwards: fair play. They get £7.20 an hour and three meals, I believe? It should be doubled. And paid for by the filthy bastards who can't tidy up after themselves. 

[ohvienna]

Fucking hell, I knew a fair amount got left behind but this is just absolutely shocking. So what if your tent is a bit wet and muddy? Take it home!

So appalling how throwaway money is to some people, let alone how rude and lazy it is just leaving it there. People could at least pack it up and hand it in so it can be sent to the refugee camp.

[pie_and_a_pint]

Vile. Disgraceful. Wasteful. We said when we left at 4.30pm on Monday that some fields looked still quite full. We assumed it was people leaving late to avoid traffic; seems it was people dumping tents and going. 

[DeanoL]

6 minutes ago, Avalon_Fields said:

There has to be a way to stop all this. I knew tents were discarded, never quite realised how many there are left on site. Sometimes I don't know why the Eavis's put up with it all.

They just pay people to take them down. From our ticket price. It'd be nice if people took the stuff home, and it's a real shame it's wasted from an environmental perpspective, but it's not a big deal for the Eavis'.

[FuzzyDunlop]

We took an extra tent home with us and 2 new camping chairs

[NoBallGames]

This one has to be one of the worst given the mud. Absolutely ZERO excuse just saying there are a lot of lazy arses in the world and I could see the mud providing an extra deterrent to the lazy ways of not simply packing up your shiz. 

[arcade fireman]

We left our tent behind this year. Absolutely no way we were going to take it home...

 

 

 

 

 

We did stay in Camplight though  Pretty good service, at least someone is making some use of those discarded tents. Unfortunately from the pictures above many more would go to waste. 

One thing - we normally take our tents home whatever. But the first I heard about the collection for Calais was when leaving the gates. Maybe if this was publicised more, a few people might actually pack up their tents and leave them at the gate? I think some can't be bothered taking them home particularly on trains/coach - sure it's sheer laziness anyway but might at least get a few more to pack them up. Definitely not a solution though. 

 

[H.M.V]

This was the first year I ever even contemplated leaving anything due to exhaustion. However we still packed everything up even though tent wouldnt fit properly into tent bag and sucked it up and carried back to the coach and hotel. Repacked when we got to the hotel so we could carry it back on the flight to Ireland.  Bet most of those dirty c**ts were travelling by car. Really boils my piss cos I can't even take some extra home cos just can't fit in baggage for the plane. 

[**claire**]

Despicable bastards. And they must live in that shit state for the duration of the festival too.

it almost looks like the majority of tents get left these days, they're not even in the minority any more.

[Crazyfool01]

There was me thinking it was better this year , there must be ways to improve this situation , ? come on efesters what can we come up with thats workable for the festival . Seeing this destroys the positive vibes from the festival

[stiff]

Thank you for posting the video and helping to inform us how bad it is.

Shame we can't shame the offenders