To say take your festival tent home and reuse it

[Theolittle]

If you don’t It ends up in landfill. There is a myth out there that it goes to charity, it’s not true. To go to charity it would need to be spotlessly clean and the charity workers would need to be able to pack the tents properly. The people that leave the tents don’t leave them in good condition and are just lazy ignorant horrible wasteful people. It’s disgusting - the people that do this are disgusting. Glastonbury and other festivals should be telling people it goes to landfill and to stop doing it

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 can't comprehend this. It absolutely disgusts me.

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.

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.

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

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.