Monday Morning Devastation - Don't Do It. (picture thread)

[sassy2012]

we left monday at 11am last year and the east campervan fields were spotless. All of the rubbish and recycling placed in the correct place too! I put it down to the average camper/caravan owner being a bit older, not having to carry stuff and not wanting to drive over rubbish. but still, it was nice to see that it was left as it was found.

[elias]

All you need to know about the Pyramid chair dwellers...

[Midnight Man]

So, do all the other photos represent all you need to know about campers?

[frostypaw]

Our corner of Pennards got cleaned up pretty well (to the puzzlement of one girl who walked by and asked "how come this bits so clean??").

Actually I thought there was a general improvement last year.

[carlosj]

This is the bit that really annoys me, the crap left everywhere over the days, not just on Monday morning, and the gas cannisters left too. Idiots leaving tents up. We wandered past the Pyramid after Beyonce in 2010 and picked up some chairs but it was like a tsunami had happened with the detritus all over.

I have a shopping list for Monday, so will be down from the CV East fields to pack up some tents and stuff and at least they won't have to be taken to landfill.

[tumbles]

The reduced cost of tents has resulted in it getting progressively worse over the years... 15 years ago you'd have paid good dollar for a 2 man tent. These days you can get them for less than a tenner.

The peeps who clean the likes of the Pyramid field each morning are amazing. If you ever get up early enough you can witness the mess and the speed they clear it up..

Edited June 17, 2014 by tumbles

[lcb172]

last year we were going to leave about 10am, and the camp behind us looked as if they were still sleeping as nothing had been touched, well on closer inspection, they had left everything, including a lot of clothing and beer that they didn't want anymore. This includes 3 tents, which could easily hold about 6 people each, and there was only 5 in the group. me and my 3 mates were so disgusted that we spent the next hour cleaning it all up. also what made me feel even better was that there were some people who saw what we were doing, and helped us, which shows that there is still a large majority with that glastonbury spirit.

we always take everything home, because i don't want to be spending so much money on camping stuff the year after, its just a waste of money, when you already have good stuff why leave it

Edited June 17, 2014 by lcb172

[fcum]

This was the Pyramid, Sunday after the last band.

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[angelfire]

It isn't just on the Monday morning though, I'm forever tripping up over other people's blinkin rubbish from Wednesday onwards! It bugs me!

[pentura]

In 2010 we had a wander of some of the areas on Monday morning, there was very little debris left from the previous nights - maybe it had already been cleaned or it wasn't as bad then, maybe a combination of the two.

Anyway here's some photos of me at the Pyramid that morning. The guards behind me were nice enough to let me onto the walkway the bands use to get out into the crowd

[bamber]

When I was a kid we had the keep Britain tidy campaign which worked on me and I guess many of my generation. The campaign still seems to be going, not that I would have known as from what I can see the high profile it had, presumably funded well by the Labour governments of the day, seems to have fallen by the wayside now and I don't think there has been any serious educational program for a number of generations regarding litter and it shows. I work at a big university and on a sunny day in term time all the lawns surrounding the main campus buildings get covered in food and drink debris by the early evening, while the numerous bins surrounding these areas just stay virtually empty. If I confront a student who I see leaving their crap behind when leaving the lawn, nine times out of ten I'm met with a peculiar bemused "what are you on about" expression. These are smart kids, well educated but they do not have a clue about their social responsibility in this context because they have had no education on the matter. If pressed, and after the empty litter bin ten feet away is pointed out, they sometimes point out that there are litter pickers employed but the university to clean up after them, which is true I guess but FFS the bin is TEN FEET AWAY!

[psychology]

When I was a kid we had the keep Britain tidy campaign which worked on me and I guess many of my generation. The campaign still seems to be going, not that I would have known as from what I can see the high profile it had, presumably funded well by the Labour governments of the day, seems to have fallen by the wayside now and I don't think there has been any serious educational program for a number of generations regarding litter and it shows. I work at a big university and on a sunny day in term time all the lawns surrounding the main campus buildings get covered in food and drink debris by the early evening, while the numerous bins surrounding these areas just stay virtually empty. If I confront a student who I see leaving their crap behind when leaving the lawn, nine times out of ten I'm met with a peculiar bemused "what are you on about" expression. These are smart kids, well educated but they do not have a clue about their social responsibility in this context because they have had no education on the matter. If pressed, and after the empty litter bin ten feet away is pointed out, they sometimes point out that there are litter pickers employed but the university to clean up after them, which is true I guess but FFS the bin is TEN FEET AWAY!

[frostypaw]

If I confront a student who I see leaving their crap behind when leaving the lawn, nine times out of ten I'm met with a peculiar bemused "what are you on about" expression. These are smart kids, well educated but they do not have a clue about their social responsibility in this context because they have had no education on the matter. If pressed, and after the empty litter bin ten feet away is pointed out, they sometimes point out that there are litter pickers employed but the university to clean up after them, which is true I guess but FFS the bin is TEN FEET AWAY!

[Pinhead]

Perhaps Generation Y do not believe in society...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-27865991

[helen-8]

This looks fairly typical of the kind of thing I saw last year in Bushy Ground - there were a few tents left but it was mostly just rubbish like this that one of our disgusting neighbours left behind

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This is my son & his mate following our camp site tidy up

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[LaxtonsSuperb]

Full disclosure: a much younger me has left a muddy and knackered tent behind in the distant past without thinking of the mess in my hungover state - pure thoughtlessness (though I don't recall doing it at Glastonbury, more likely Leeds). More recently on rare occasions I've wanted to dispose of battered tents I've packed them up and binned them or taken them home to bin them - to be honest last few years i've been I've been with very tidy folks and indeed when I'm at Glastonbury or EOTR I'm bordering on anally retentive about stuff going on the floor including cigarette butts etc, it's easy to keep things tidy

[POKERDUDE]

I don't take anything home, but I put it in a bin, is that ok?

[ghandi]

I have a tendency to believe that these are kids that leave the place in such a mess. They probably leave their bedrooms or dorms in the same mess , though I know I'm probably wrong, those mature grown ups surely wouldn't leave it in such a mess.... would they? We for one take everything we bring back.

[jonny2mad]

I don't take anything home, but I put it in a bin, is that ok?

[pentura]

shitting in tents

[stardustjunkie]

I'll be the first to admit I'm not a tidy person. My dad often makes comments about the state of my bedroom. I like to call it organised chaos, because I know where everything is and I don't have much choice, 22 years worth of stuff is in one room!

But when I'm at Glastonbury I have so much respect for the farm. I actually bought bin bags today. £1 for 20, there's no excuse! I use bin bags to put down at the front of the tent for muddy wellies, I always have one on the go for general rubbish on the inside of the tent and if we have a campfire with neighbours I always take one outside and point it out to them so that they put their cans in it instead of on the floor. I've never left anything behind.

What I find disgusting is the number of baby wipes people just throw out of their tent. They live in their own dirt, the outside of their tents are piled up with the stuff that they don't want inside their tent - empty cans, dirty wipes etc, and yet they have to wade through it all to get out in the morning. It's not difficult to put it in a bin bag.

I personally think the festival could do a little bit more to promote their leave no trace campaign. Repeatedly posting it on social media isn't solving the problem. Stewards could walk around with bin bags and hand them to anyone who hasn't got any. They could alternatively hand a bin bag out to every person on the gate. Not the cheapest option but it would save a lot of cleaning up (hopefully).

[Mr.Tease]

I get so angry when I see photos like that- feel bad for the poor folk that have to clean it all up too. People go, have a great time and that's how they repay the festival and it's organisers. It's disgusting.

[Ruwise]

Having spoken to people who do it they tend to believe they are helping somebody out. One person I spoke to said it gives somebody a free festival so by not throwing anything in the bin they were helping poorer people get to the festival. Warped logic!! Things like this affect the ticket price in the first place as they add to the cost of putting the festival on.

[misnomer]

The Other Stage:

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[fur_q]

They could alternatively hand a bin bag out to every person on the gate. Not the cheapest option but it would save a lot of cleaning up (hopefully).