Hate the farm, leave all your shit behind

[nicktrow]

I had a 'moment' when I saw some 18-20 year old guy pissing on the Leftfield sign as hundreds walked by about 5pm. I just blurted out from the trackway "your not f**king 5 years old, use the toilet!" "I don't know where they are?" "There everywhere, walk in any direction" He looked a bit sheepish.

And if he is reading this, yes I did see your winkle, and no, it wasn't a cold day.

[abdoujaparov]

Let's get one thing clear... I took my tent home (covered in sh1te), I also put as much of our rubbish as I could in a bin bag, and the rest piled next to it - I couldn't find anyone on Monday to get a bag from. Not quite sure what you expect me to do, trapse around the entire site looking?

I agree the problem is the people, but you've got to be realistic, Glastonbury has absolutely zero chance of turning 175,000 people into eco-warriors, and if you think that's possible you're naive. I would love for everyone to pack their tents up and bag all their rubbish, but that's not going to happen. The best they can hope for is to make it easy for people to clean up / recycle, that was there's more chance of people doing it.

[One Tonne Baby]

I pissed against fences when the queues were huge and I was busting. Sorry.

[Miss_Boo]

I'm sorry - I read your orginal post as saying that you left your tent behind. My bad.

My point about bin bags stands. There's a better than even chance you'll need some, especially when it's wet, so take your own.

I dont expect to turn 175000 people into "eco-warriors", but it isnt unreasonable to expect 175000 people not to be selfish twats

[**claire**]

Re: welly washers

I washed my wellies down a couple of times. Yes they got muddy again, but sometimes the mud was so caked on, it was like carrying round an extra stone on each foot. Washing the mud off made them much lighter and more easy to walk in.

I packed up my tent and as much rubbish in a bag as I could, but unfortunately Glastonbury do nothing to help people here. We had to search around for ages on the Friday for a bin bag, there were no bins near us and when that got filled up we had no option other than to leave rubbish on the ground beside the bag. The bins in the arenas were constantly overflowing with nobody to empty them.

I think people will be much more environmentally friendly if the organisers make it easy for people to do. Let's be honest, everyone has the best intentions but at 9am on Monday mornign after a heavy night, 80% of people aren't going to go on the search for a bin bag. Whereas if they were freely available, along with "tent dumps" maybe, I think you would have found a lot more of the tents / rubbish cleared away.

I agree the site looks a mess, but for the majority of people there was nowhere to throw your tent/rubbish away!

[rabid]

Like everything, the responsibility is with the person who litters and no one else.

Are there four people in that pointless facebook group yet?

[River]

I went to 'rescue' a £80 pop up tent on Monday to find it full of piss If you dont want your stuff then at least dont leave a nasty mess inside for someone who does want it.

[VeeDub]

Was gutted to learn that the girls I went with didn't have any desire to take their tent home with them. My hands were already full, so I packed it into the bag and left it there for someone to hopefully pick up.

RE: general rubbish. I think to expect the whole site to be spotless is unrealistic. The bins (and their emptying) this year was terrible, though I imagine that this was partly down to the weather and vehicles struggling to move around site.

My idea to help with the mess/laziness of people on Mondays would be to deploy a team of skip trucks around the site on Sunday night, and put skips every 100m or so apart around the campsites. This way people will be close to an empty vessel to put their shit in, and the already full bins will not turn into massive heaps of junk.

[smytho15]

I Thought of leaving my tent which has served me well for a good 5 years

But after a chat down the phone with the wife who insisted that i did as it cost £60 5 years ago and we have a second child in less then a year on the way meaning i would have in her words f**k ALL TO SLEEP IN AT READING it hastilly packed it up.

Also i packed up 2 more tents left up to bring home for skint mates for the future and conducted my festival habit of collecting up every spare tent peg i can find for the coming footie season.....these are greatly required for the nets each week.

i appologise for my momment with the devil in the desert.

I do think they should have continued the practice of being able to hand your tent in as i am sure there are loads of places round the world present or future that could do with them. but that is just me

Edited June 28, 2011 by smytho15

[campin' queen]

Some of the posts site the 2007 appeal to leave your tents behind for charity as bing part of the problem - what folk don't remember tho is that to donate the tent, you were still supposed to pack it up and take it to a collection point (think these were at the campsite crew caravans). There was never any intention for the festival to go around and unpitch them.

[abdoujaparov]

My idea to help with the mess/laziness of people on Mondays would be to deploy a team of skip trucks around the site on Sunday night, and put skips every 100m or so apart around the campsites. This way people will be close to an empty vessel to put their shit in, and the already full bins will not turn into massive heaps of junk.

[Weekend Cigarette Smoker]

I took most of my crap to the bins at the end but there was so much around there that I felt I may as well have just left it where it was. I mean the rubbish was coming out of the bins by 4 or 5 ft.

[Phil-itfc]

the reason people leave tents and equipment behind is that alot of folks have an attitude of just throwing things away and businesses cater for this, electrical products pretty much everyone I know gets a new mobile phone every 18 months and the old one just goes in the drawer. Fashion Primark is a prime example jeans are something like a fiver a pair?! to some people they'll wear them once get a small hole or decide they don't like them and simply through them away because its less effort than giving them to a charity shop. Food I know loads of people that buy to much food and end up throwing some of it away. we live in this sort of culture now. My parents and grandparents would never dream of living how some of us do.

the same goes for camping equipment my friend told me he got his tent a couple of years ago for 3 quid! I understand you can get festival packs a tent a sleeping bags for say 25 quid between 2 people that's 12.50 each for 5 nights accommodation that's the price of just 3 pints at Glasto people just don't think twice before deciding that's little money and now someone else's responsibility. I'm not saying its right in fact I think its awful.

[denwyn]

This was my fourth Glastonbury,and i can say that up to this year i have never left anything behind except for the odd bag of rubbish place by the bins on way out. This year i had to go home on Thursday night as i was really quite ill.. . I was really gutted as i had to leave my tent and other bits behind as i was in no fit state to carry everything to the car...what was worse is it was a new tent,not a cheap one either...I don't understand the lazy buggers who are young and fit leaving there stuff behind as they can't be bothered... If i could have carried the stuff i would have taken it,could be Eavis will have to put his prices up even more to allow for the stuff left behind...

[PetePie]

the amount of stuff this year left behind was unreal, i have been going since 94, and this year they seemed to be an amazing amount of good stuff left, i always leave late monday now, so i can get a new tent and other stuff people leave behind.in the last 3 years alone i have got loads of tents, good expensive trolleys, massive amounts of beer, and loads of other stuff. totalling well over £2000. this year i took 1 tent home worth over £250 and well over £100 in beer. brand new tent as well. and i saw other tents that cost over £500 and they was left behind, why do people leave these i will never know.i would'nt leave expensive tents or other stuff behind, but since it all goes in land fill. why waste it. somebody should take it.

[delnaja]

Let's get one thing clear... I took my tent home (covered in sh1te), I also put as much of our rubbish as I could in a bin bag, and the rest piled next to it - I couldn't find anyone on Monday to get a bag from. Not quite sure what you expect me to do, trapse around the entire site looking?

I agree the problem is the people, but you've got to be realistic, Glastonbury has absolutely zero chance of turning 175,000 people into eco-warriors, and if you think that's possible you're naive. I would love for everyone to pack their tents up and bag all their rubbish, but that's not going to happen. The best they can hope for is to make it easy for people to clean up / recycle, that was there's more chance of people doing it.

[Completewasters]

No, no, no, no, no....why make it even easier for people to chuck stuff away? The problem is people throwing away perfectly good stuff...tents, chairs etc...why make it even earier for them to be wasteful?

[Spindles]

This was my first Glasto, and next time I definitely will bring bags, but at the same time Glasto need to take some responsibility for the fact that there are going to be a lot of people who haven't been before / forgot bin bags / underestimated the carnage the mud was going to cause etc. I don't think 175,000 people were all selfish twats, but lets face it for every 50,000 who do their best to leave no trace, there's going to be another 50,000 (twats, I agree) who won't give a sh1t. They're the people you need to make it easy for as they do most damage. Empty bins (especially around food areas, I didnt see them empty the whole weekend) and easier access to bin bags will make it easy for people. Unfortunately some people lacking in intelligence need to be treated with kid gloves!

[TwistedReligion]

I had a 'moment' when I saw some 18-20 year old guy pissing on the Leftfield sign as hundreds walked by about 5pm. I just blurted out from the trackway "your not f**king 5 years old, use the toilet!" "I don't know where they are?" "There everywhere, walk in any direction" He looked a bit sheepish.

And if he is reading this, yes I did see your winkle, and no, it wasn't a cold day.

[abdoujaparov]

This needs to be done more. I am losing faith with Green Police whenever I saw them all they were doing was singing. 2013 I am starting my own operation

[Spindles]

I didnt see any...

[KaleidoscopeEyes]

I left my tent behind. I felt bad but I was ruined over the weekend by we did take it down an place up againt an ice cream van because the whole weekend they were chucking their rubbish onto someones 1 man tent, it was covered.

[LynseyDiva]

We were camped in the darble (if that's even how you spell it) which had a nice mix of families and older couples as well as young folk. For the most part, the campsite we were in was left fairly tidy, but like all the other folk posting here, I was amazed at how many folk left their stuff behind.

I just wish I had the strength to carry extra tents home, there were so many brand new tents left on the Monday morning!

Like the pikey I am, I always go round and collect up any random tent pegs I see lying around after a festival. You can never have too many spares, as my mate discovered this year when she unpacked her tent to discover she had no tent pegs! Pikey = win!

[LynseyDiva]

They were probably busy selling ashtrays.

[abdoujaparov]

I left my tent behind. I felt bad but I was ruined over the weekend by we did take it down an place up againt an ice cream van because the whole weekend they were chucking their rubbish onto someones 1 man tent, it was covered.