oneeye Posted August 28, 2019 Report Share Posted August 28, 2019 BBC News - Reading and Leeds 2019: Festival-goers 'should pay tent tax'https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49494957 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mashedonmud Posted August 28, 2019 Report Share Posted August 28, 2019 Maybe but i think Ignorant people will still be ignorant. Just pick up your own Shit. Simple. ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amfy Posted August 28, 2019 Report Share Posted August 28, 2019 People would simply justify leaving their £40 tent because they have paid a £25 cleaning fee. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinhead Posted August 28, 2019 Report Share Posted August 28, 2019 2 minutes ago, amfy said: People would simply justify leaving their £40 tent because they have paid a £25 cleaning fee. Yeah this is it isn't it. Its like where car parking has risen year on year to encourage public transport use, bikes etc. yet car parks seem as packed as ever as people take the attitude that its all part of the rising cost for the festival weekend and in for a penny, in for a pound prevails. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mashedonmud Posted August 28, 2019 Report Share Posted August 28, 2019 (edited) 52 minutes ago, amfy said: People would simply justify leaving their £40 tent because they have paid a £25 cleaning fee. Totally agree. Good point. Cheap tents are one of the major players with this problem. Sad that festival attendees are causing so much waste. Through my rose tinted spectacles I still like to think that festivals are a haven of hugs and planet saving loveliness. Alas the reality seems to be tipping towards the opposite. Sad to see those pictures of Leeds after improvement at Glastonbury and others. Still think education is the key. But they must live on a different planet if they're not getting the message on waste. Useless lazy gits. Edited August 28, 2019 by mashedonmud Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scaryclaireyfairy Posted August 28, 2019 Report Share Posted August 28, 2019 Reverse tent tax might work. As in get something back when you leave with your tent but would be incredibly difficult to implement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
priest17 Posted August 28, 2019 Report Share Posted August 28, 2019 How would they even work that out? I know there's a wildly different demographic to contend with but there seems to be a massive contrast between the post glasto scenes and the post R&L scenes, I swear its because G show a bit more respect to the punters they're entertaining. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuartbert two hats Posted August 28, 2019 Report Share Posted August 28, 2019 It's not a tent tax, it's a littering tax. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazyfool01 Posted August 28, 2019 Report Share Posted August 28, 2019 44 minutes ago, priest17 said: How would they even work that out? I know there's a wildly different demographic to contend with but there seems to be a massive contrast between the post glasto scenes and the post R&L scenes, I swear its because G show a bit more respect to the punters they're entertaining. its only been different at the last festival because of the focus ... the bottle ban , extinction rebellion march and David Attenborough , I would be fairly sure Reading / Leeds didn't have similar ... but I do remember not so long ago the video below showing the destruction at our favourite festival Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuartbert two hats Posted August 28, 2019 Report Share Posted August 28, 2019 1 hour ago, crazyfool1 said: its only been different at the last festival because of the focus ... the bottle ban , extinction rebellion march and David Attenborough , I would be fairly sure Reading / Leeds didn't have similar ... but I do remember not so long ago the video below showing the destruction at our favourite festival The rate of the change makes me optimistic. Hopefully things won't regress in 2020. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mashedonmud Posted August 28, 2019 Report Share Posted August 28, 2019 That short video still hurts. ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parsonjack Posted August 28, 2019 Report Share Posted August 28, 2019 The absolute hypocrites that fawned over Greta Thunberg during the 1975 set...then left all their shit behind. Shameful.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lycra Posted August 28, 2019 Report Share Posted August 28, 2019 Will it really change people's behaviour. I fear not when they're prepared to leave tents and gear worth £100s in some instances. It will just be seen as a necessary expense. Besides which it will cause a very large admin problem. How do you prove who left what unless every tent is tagged. ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mash011 Posted August 28, 2019 Report Share Posted August 28, 2019 hey yall, heres an idea,, what if they made glatonbury even MORE expensive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
incident Posted August 28, 2019 Report Share Posted August 28, 2019 It's one of those nice ideas, that ultimately would be near impossible to implement properly as doing so would cost significantly more in resources than the charge would bring in. Especially if it actually was effective meaning only a small percentage forfeit their 25 quid in the end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dentalplan Posted August 28, 2019 Report Share Posted August 28, 2019 Don’t let anyone leave until all the tents are gone imo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuartbert two hats Posted August 28, 2019 Report Share Posted August 28, 2019 1 hour ago, parsonjack said: The absolute hypocrites that fawned over Greta Thunberg during the 1975 set...then left all their shit behind. Shameful.. Did they? Maybe most of those specific people took their stuff back with them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
priest17 Posted August 28, 2019 Report Share Posted August 28, 2019 You're only allowed to bring a tent if you've done some community service first. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mash011 Posted August 28, 2019 Report Share Posted August 28, 2019 just ban all tents and have the audience sleep in the mud like the filthy hogs they are 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoBalls Posted August 28, 2019 Report Share Posted August 28, 2019 (edited) The problem with a tent tax is that the sort of person who is happy to leave a tent that they have paid money for is probably the sort of person that doesn’t mind losing their £25 deposit either. What a tent tax WOULD do however, is punish those people who do clean up after themselves by making them go through some kind of arduous process to be able to claim back their deposit at the end of the festival - either you’d have to wait around for someone to come and check your camp and approve you before you leave, or you’d have to queue at the exit to show that you’re taking your tent with you at the gate, and then there’s the question of HOW you get your money back - obviously they wouldn’t just be able to give 150,000 people £25 in cash, so it would need to be done electronically - would you have to queue for a refund onto your card, or would you get given a voucher and have to do it online? Either way there is no way that it wouldn’t be a major faf for those people who leave no trace. Edited August 28, 2019 by JoBalls Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MetaKate Posted August 29, 2019 Report Share Posted August 29, 2019 9 hours ago, dentalplan said: Don’t let anyone leave until all the tents are gone imo I would never remove my tent again and make the party go forever and ever. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lycra Posted August 29, 2019 Report Share Posted August 29, 2019 It's not just tents which are left. Why not go the whole hog and tax sleeping bags, cookers, air beds and all the other detritus left behind..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quark Posted August 29, 2019 Report Share Posted August 29, 2019 Far more effective to my mind would be a suspension of your registration for a period if you don't take your shit home. Been said before that the people who are writing off £100+ of camping gear as part of their festival spend will just add another £25 onto it and see it as justification for leaving it behind. But it all comes back to identification and implementation. How the hell would you make it work when everyone's just trying to get the hell out of Dodge on Monday morning? Or midnight on Sunday after the headliner finishes? Will also end up screwing over the one or two decent people in a 20-strong group of shitbiscuits, especially in the days of group tents and teepees. I can see it maybe working at other festivals where camping is a separate area, but where it's as open as Glastonbury? No idea. As an aside it also makes me sad that money is the automatic go-to for punishment and encouragement. Just says more about the world than I'd like it to 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazyfool01 Posted August 29, 2019 Report Share Posted August 29, 2019 (edited) Perhaps you should go over a weigh bridge on the way in ... no exit until you meet the same weight you entered in .... this could be written on your ticket or brazed onto your forehead similar to what they do with the cows Edited August 29, 2019 by crazyfool1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quark Posted August 29, 2019 Report Share Posted August 29, 2019 Just now, crazyfool1 said: Perhaps you should go over a weigh bridge on the way in ... no exit until you meet the same weight you entered in .... this could be written on your ticket With the amount I eat over the weekend they'd be refunding me on my way out the door Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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