To say take your festival tent home and reuse it

Never been to Glastonbury but I often went to the Great Dorset Steam Fair, similar thing with lots of camping. I went with my dad who exhibited his stationary engines, at the end when people threw out or abandoned tents he would grab them and use them as as tarpaulins to cover his collection of engines and vintage bikes so that's an example of recycling.
Also all the stalls selling stuff would leave what they didn't sell so loads of us would go round looking for good stuff before the bin lorry came round, I got a nice set of new pyrex dishes this way.

In I don't blame them not wanting to take an expensive tent because the risk of damage from drunks is high.0

That's because the average age isn't 16-19!

Responsible adults, good tents, well loved tents that they want to use year after year.

I miss my tent... 🤣

I sold it when DD was 2 and DS 14 as, as a single parent - I couldn't spend all day legging it after a 2 year old who was nipper than me! We used the money for a caravan the year after!

I'd still love to camp but can't drive due to disability. There's no way I could manage a decent tent plus everything else on the train.

These are kids - tent £30. Grateful it lasted 3 days (probably sobbing if it rained 🤣). They're not interested in tent investment.

It's just a symptom of our disposable society.
The tents being used these days aren't camping tents, they're cheap pop up covers that are expected to only last one use.

These kids would never even manage to haul in otherwise.

They carry in their cheap shite, which is sold for purpose and leave it to save carrying it home.

You can't always blame the 'camper' when they're being sold a disposable product.

I can't comprehend this. It absolutely disgusts me.

Ds is spending his summer catering at festivals. Apparently they aren't allowed to tent scavenge, but unofficially a lot of them are turning up with one tent & leaving with 3 or 4, which they are selling for beer money in the coach park or whatever at the next festival.

It does seem to me that there's a gap in the market for someone doing that officially - don't bother lugging a £20 Argos tent, buy a second hand one for a tenner when you get there, hand it back for a fiver?

I've been to a lot of motorbike rallies over the years, some are pretty big and things can be chaotic and raucous, but on a Sunday or Monday afternoon when everyone has left the place is spotless, provision is made for any broken equipment to be left in a particular area and everybody adheres to that.
If thousands of hungover bikers can clear their pitch after a wild weekend away why can't the general population? I really don't understand it.

Glastonbury, Reading, Leeds - all so different from the ABR bike festival at Ragley Hall.

This shows the grounds on the day of leaving:
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Ahqz52XZG/

Why can't other festival users behave like the bikers? I know it's a tiny festival compared to others but it is possible.

This kind of thing terrifies me about festivals.
Tents so flammable, pitched on top of each other.

I mean the festival in question - with the rubbish bag deposits - sounds like hell hole of chaos and filth. Not Greenbelt!

Quite right - it sounds like hell hole of chaos and filth. I have no intention of checking 😂

I saw a photo yesterday of a woman sitting on the pitch at Wembley after Live Aid. She was sitting on piles of rubbish and in the photo you do ent see even an inch of the pitch. People leaving rubbish behind them at large events is not a new thing.

When you pitch a tent it costs you a 50 quid deposit. Bring them your packed up tent, you get your deposit back.

Happy to confirm ds's brand new tent didn't end up in the landfill.
Someone set it on fire..
Luckily ds wasn't in it.

😂

My dad is still mad at my cousin, 30 years on, for borrowing his tent and packing it up wet and not telling him, when he eventually went to use it had mould and mildew 🙁

My friend got loads of free stuff this year after Glastonbury. She was horrified at the amount of stuff left behind

Circular Camping take them, refurbish them and sell them the following year at Download. Helps the ones that come via coach etc. Mind you there’s way less abandoned ones there than at Glastonbury.

My DS and his mates came back from Glastonbury with a great haul of camping stuff. Tents, chairs and a cool box. His friend even took an empty bag so he could pack it all and walk it out. A family member also has a massive inflatable tent that was left behind. It's terrible that people just leave it all, but if you are not in a hurry you can pick up some really good stuff.

YANBU. Leaving a festival tent behind is no better than littering/flytipping.

Another infuriating side of this is that the culture has leached into general camping in the past 15-20 years, and people will ditch tents for the site owner to bear the disposal costs of.

Often people didn't pitch the tent properly in the first place, didn't check it through the stay so it's either flappy or gets minor, repairable damage and they just abandon it. That could easily have been avoided with a bit of care.

The "DIY festivalers" blasting out their crappy music all the time can fuck off too.

I have been to several different sorts of festivals

I have always brought my tent back

But you expect someone else to clear up your ‘disgusting’ tent? Charming

Yes one Kendal calling we came away with a brand new in box gazebo and a crate of beer. I was very cautious about taking leftover stuff helping with the cleanup and would be more proactive next time.

I left the TT with 17 tents, 20 sleeping bags and a load of collapsible chairs, inflatable pillows, camping mattresses a shit load of beers and a few other random items. Sold £430 worth so far and I'm not even halfway through it 😁 bollocks to taking a motorbike and a shitty little tent - camper vans pay for their own crossing!