To say take your festival tent home and reuse it

Also... the charities don't want cheap single skin "festival" tents. They need actual decent kit.

My DDs Scout group gets some tents from a festival.

But... the charities basically get a few hours to scavenge what they can. Its barely a dent.

I saw the Berghaus tent video, we have a similar one... especially with all the other equipment!!!

(Although I've been wrestling with a bloody pop up tent this afternoon, gearing up for round 3 of trying to get it it back in the bag.)

(We've also left a tent behind on a camping trip... a broken one, but still collapsed it and put it in the bin!)

I saw a tik tok video of the tents left over this year and one of them was a massive berghaus family tent that people were saying was between £700 and over a grand to buy new !!! I expect they had borrowed that from a family member who was expecting it home and wouldn’t be too happy .
My Dad has never got over my sister borrowing a tent off him years ago and her ex boyfriend taking it with him when he left and my Dads camping days are well and truly over 😂😂
Theres no care about money with some people . The effort getting it home isn’t worth it to them .

I went to V festival about 12 years ago and left mine there- it had been weed all over (not by me). It was disgusting. It couldn’t come in the car and stink it out and I wouldn’t have used it again

i go to festivals and I can assure you that 95% of people take their tents home, I was fairly late leaving and the vast majority had packed up and left before 10am, including tents. Perhaps is just the Glastonbury crowd?

I am always surprised at the number of tents left behind at Glastonbury. Especially as a large percentage of the festival attendees are Gen Z,who I thought were meant to be really clued up about waste,stuff going to landfill, recycling etc. What's the betting that some of them are members of Extinction Rebellion or Just Stop Oil?

YANBU of course but twats will twat. What is so disturbing is these are usually the people who are all about extinction rebellion. (I say that as a festival goer of decades experience)

So how will you police this?

Make them hire tents from the organisers?
Surely the organisers could use some of their profits and deal with the issue?

AI says: In the financial year ending March 2024, Glastonbury Festival reported a pre-tax profit of £5.9 million, which was a significant increase from the previous year. The festival also donated £5.2 million to charity during that period

Some get recycled as in, some people take some tents and make stuff out of them. Some are taken to landfill, that’s true and some are burned. It’s a sad state of affairs really though the amount of pure shit left behind at these festivals.

Decathlon this year are offering refunds for used festival tents.

YANBU, but people aren't going to just change, without some sort of system in place to enforce the change.