this years litter

[wirralchris]

left site at around 5pm monday, the shite i walked through on the way out left me a tad deflated after a great weekend, i cant take credit for the pics, but these pretty much sum it up! I love the place, but hate the fact that people i share the weekend with are capable of the destruction they leave behind, i can see this killing the festival off, this shit needs fixing!

http://www.buzzfeed.com/matthewtucker/the-bleakest-photos-of-post-glastonbury-carnage

[tumbles]

A lot of them are just of thr pyramid field though aren't they. Not saying it's any excuse but not every field looked like that...

[Ricci's Special Kebabs]

No different to any other year.

[wirralchris]

i left from oxlyers and exited through gate d, they all looked the same, even the car parks were strewn with litter! its heartbreaking

[GlastoSimon]

Well when all 39 pictures are of the same area which is one of the most likely to be littered, it's difficult to gauge the extent of the problem. I was camped near-ish Pyramid and Beat Hotel this year and those areas were always a bit shitty litter-wise.

Lots of hyperbole in the papers today/yesterday, but I'm yet to see a clear picture of campsites etc. which yes I imagine were bad, but those are the areas which allow you to compare to other years.

[frostypaw]

Not just a lot of them - virtually every single one of those is the pyramid field which they always give up on come Sunday leaving it til monday to dive in

It's just another of the media's ideas about the festival. It's muddy, full of litter and entirely sold out corporate crap apart from the naughty corner and backstage natch. total nonsense really - the pyramid field has ALWAYS looked like that on monday morning

if you want a real shocker find the post-beyonce pictures, or 2007's.

[Ruwise]

Fucking animals. Sorry but the sight of this actually makes me mad. Every day I made sure to put my litter in a bin and usually took a couple of other things to the bin as well. There is no need for that. Even if you stay by the Pyramid all day you can take a plastic bag with you and put your rubbish in there until you find a bin. There are no excuses for behaving like this.

[jonodillieono]

Was flying at around 6am on Monday so decided to go and walk around the entire festival to see what it was like when it was basically empty, I went with my camp chair and sat under neath the tree at the back of the pyramid field just to take in it's beauty. I shed a bit of a tear looking at the sheer amount of trash covering the field

[wirralchris]

No different to any other year.

[Ricci's Special Kebabs]

so its ok then?

[Bobs]

Sadly out site was a tip, i emptied like 5-6 bags of rubbish over the weekend, and took them to the bins, and kept coming back to more shite.

Leave no trace and all that? Maybe i just don't get it? But i gave up trying to tidy it up in the end.

[progue]

I really don't think that a lot of people even recognise the rubbish thing as an issue. I'm not even sure that the organisers themselves do enough to raise awareness really, but maybe they shouldn't have to.

Leaving your shit behind has pretty much become the norm at Glastonbury and each year the festival tell us what a wonderful clean up operation that they have and more or less condone it as part and parcel.

I think people are just under the impression that's what you do!! Even my own son asked us why we were taking a broken chair home...I thought I had brought him up better than that, but there you go.

[shayne66]

isn't there an incentive that could be used to maybe help with litter reduction (although there shouldn't need be) or they should issue warnings regarding the tent area's throughout the week then fines if they don't pick their ideas up or even a ban.

we was camping right next to a walkway and always left a bag outside our tent to put rubbish in for that day, then either dropped it off on route to a stage or someone picked it up on way past..

[frostypaw]

I've been having a little chat with my sister about this at roskilde where they run a deposit system on all the cups/plates/etc and folk can get cash back for returning them in whatever state

while this seems much better the end result seems very odd - she was astonished to see everyone who's feeling well off just drops all their stuff where they stand not even attempting to find a bin. those on a budget then run around collecting them up all the time between acts so the litter kind of pulses all day

but is that actually any different to the current glastonbury system of people doing litter picking for a free ticket? those who stay after get paid as well don't they?

I'm not sure either is any better - but i do know fewer people on site would make rubbish collection easier, i'm sure i used to see many more bin tractors and i barely remember seeing one in the last few years

[Ruwise]

I've been having a little chat with my sister about this at roskilde where they run a deposit system on all the cups/plates/etc and folk can get cash back for returning them in whatever state

while this seems much better the end result seems very odd - she was astonished to see everyone who's feeling well off just drops all their stuff where they stand not even attempting to find a bin. those on a budget then run around collecting them up all the time between acts so the litter kind of pulses all day

but is that actually any different to the current glastonbury system of people doing litter picking for a free ticket? those who stay after get paid as well don't they?

I'm not sure either is any better - but i do know fewer people on site would make rubbish collection easier, i'm sure i used to see many more bin tractors and i barely remember seeing one in the last few years

[grumpyhack]

I don't know why but this year the litter got to me. On Sunday morning I walked up through some of the camping fields to see dozens of abandoned tents and huge piles of litter. You wouldn't go to someone's house and use it like a municipal rubbish dump. "That's OK drop crap everywhere as we've got the cleaner coming in tomorrow." I think not.

At Wychwood there was far less litter. On arrival all campers were given sets of colour coded and clearly marked bags for cans, paper and plastic. Most people then pre-sorted their stuff before taking the bags to the appropriate disposal points.

I've never dropped as much as a fag end at a festival and we always do a finger tip clean up of our encampment at the end. Anything broken gets taken home for repair. (With the exception of the IoW where two years ago our tent was torn to shreds so was finally packed up neatly for burial on the island).

[frostypaw]

Actually the Roskilde system could be good for me. I usually put my own and about 6 other people's food items in a bin at each meal. By the end of the festival I'd probably about break even on my ticket price without expending hardly any effort.

I think the thing people need to realise is that the number of litter pickers required reduces the capacity for the site and increases the cost of tickets.

[Ruwise]

hah, used to be likewise but my mates are good now so i take out my more ocd moments stacking cups and plates on tables i sit at

those litter pickers are valid festival goers too though, if not more than that as they're the ones doing the grind then out partying with everyone else - but the post-festival cleanup certainly does increase the price, but at most it's £16 a ticket so meh

[neilloggie]

I said in one of the other topics that this year there were 4 abandoned caravans in the CV East field.

That's taking littering to a whole new level.

[frostypaw]

Tatting an abandoned caravan would be legendary

[Ruwise]

I said in one of the other topics that this year there were 4 abandoned caravans in the CV East field.

That's taking littering to a whole new level.

[giantkatestacks]

A fair proportion of litterpickers are doing it for charity so the charity gets minimum wage for every hour you work. Not all of them are just for the tickets, they do marathons etc for those charities as well. We had to sign up and pay deposit even before ticket day.

[midnight]

There can be absolutely no excuse for the state of the campsites on Monday. If you don't need your tent (or whatever) anymore pack it up and bring it to a collection point.

Someone said people may not realise it is a problem. What on earth?! How can it not be an issue to leave piles of your trash behind? Why does it even occur to anyone that doing this would be ok or "normal"?

I simply don't get it.

It is just lazy. Nothing else.

[neilloggie]

Shit that really is bad!! I'd happily take one of them off their hands though!!

[Ruwise]

A fair proportion of litterpickers are doing it for charity so the charity gets minimum wage for every hour you work. Not all of them are just for the tickets, they do marathons etc for those charities as well. We had to sign up and pay deposit even before ticket day.