I was so shocked to see how many people left their belongings, but it was even more shocking that it was normal for everyone online," she said.
“Everyone is really tired after a multi-day festival, but I didn’t think people were that lazy or careless.”
I’m suprised she’s surprised.
Research by Green Music Australia has found one in every three tents taken to a music festival is left behind.
Holy crap. That would never occur to me - to leave a tent behind. I can’t even
wtf are they made of money?
Yeah, these are usually rich kids who can afford to just dump the tents and stuff when they’re done.
Tents are cheap: https://www.aussiedisposals.com.au/camping/tents/dome-tents.html
$40. And these tents likely won’t survive multiple uses anyway.
They are still grubs for leaving them behind.
ban single use gear
What if we just move the tents outside the environment?
It’s one of those rare occasions where it would be better for the environment if “festival tents” were made out of “cardboard” or “cardboard derivatives…”
Eh, that still wastes the energy used to process the material, so still unideal. But probably better?
Could change the model so that the festival provides the tents for $0 (or some tiny fee), but with a $500 bond. Trash the tent, lose $500, look after it and it gets re-used next festival.
@CameronDev
Sure!
Cardboard isn’t a perfect solution… nor was I suggesting it was any kid of solution.Edit: I forgot it was you who’d already referenced the sketch! Sorry!
I was just making a joke referencing this sketch, featuring Senator Collins:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm%5C_JqM3 minutes. Take a look!
affluenza.
The old adage “Take only Photos, Leave only footprints” has not been drummed into kids these days.
If the tent came back missing a single peg, we would get a hiding.
If our campsite has anything but leaves and twigs after we left, we would be sent back the next weekend to do an Emu bob.
We also cleaned up after each other because of the story about Everybody, Somebody, Nobody and Anybody.
I feel really old!
All the organisers need to do is setup a Camping Exhibition straight after the Summer Festival, advertising free giveaways. First come, first served!
Come on, people!
Or organisers need to just put up their own tents. Charge people who destroy them.
We have the same problem here in the US. Camping areas have blown up on Tik Tok, and people leave whole tents and other massive garbage. There’s not enough park rangers to staunch the flow of waste and illegal camping. It’s damaging lakes when people toss their camping gear into it.
Where does this happen? I’ll go take all the free shit.
Western US. You don’t want it, though. It’s all the crappy $40 tents and stuff.
It’s the same in Germany; people are just too drunk and/or tired to care. I get it, but ffs take some fucking responsibility…
You can probably make a good living out of returning all the bottles that are left behind, too.
Time for the Bethselamin protocol
