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Post by dogless on Aug 30, 2023 8:16:46 GMT
BBC News - Video shows Reading Festival aftermath as clean-up begins www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-66646049For a generation that rightly is very concerned about the environment, this isn't a good look. Rog ETA a very similar picture after Leeds Festival at the weekend too.
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Post by peterboat on Aug 30, 2023 8:55:32 GMT
BBC News - Video shows Reading Festival aftermath as clean-up begins www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-66646049For a generation that rightly is very concerned about the environment, this isn't a good look. Rog ETA a very similar picture after Leeds Festival at the weekend too. Totally normal for them they will die young roasting to death I suspect Rog, we will be roasted as well but probably dead already! The earth will have got rid of its parasites and will start again
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Post by β on Aug 30, 2023 9:07:42 GMT
I'm pretty sure people are told to leave the site like that. It will be cheaper to get contractors in afterwards than asking people to use skips.
You'd end up with all sorts of silly accidents.
At the end of the day you have to get the people out then deal with the site. Lots of people individually carrying their own bag is a massively easier logistical exercise than people randomly dragging all sorts of shit and junk around looking for a bin.
I once moored beside the Reading site and waved a metal detector about over part of the site one morning. Lots of pound coins.
Later on I saw some much more organised detectorists. They must get quite a lot of interesting stuff.
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Post by dogless on Aug 30, 2023 9:24:23 GMT
The madness of a society that accepts people living on the street but is happy to pay huge ticket prices for a weekend festival and abandon camping gear rather than pack it away and take it home for reuse.
I did a lot of camping years ago.
I never saw anyone, anywhere abandon any camping gear.
Rog
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Post by β on Aug 30, 2023 10:19:28 GMT
I've never been to a music festival but I have seen Reading festival 'aftermath' going back at least 20 yars and they have quite large machinery dealing with all the rubbish afterwards.
It is odd but I think probably how it has to be done or things get out of hand.
Its sad really but thats just humans isn't it.
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Post by dogless on Aug 30, 2023 11:49:26 GMT
Charge a Β£50 refundable deposit on issuing a camping slot.
If clear when you leave you get it back.
Many ways of forcing change, we're just too complacent to bother.
It doesn't have to be like that ... queue song.
Rog
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Post by β on Aug 30, 2023 11:57:33 GMT
Charge a Β£50 refundable deposit on issuing a camping slot. If clear when you leave you get it back. Many ways of forcing change, we're just too complacent to bother. It doesn't have to be like that ... queue song. Rog I still think the logistics of having large numbers of people leaving a site requires that they are carrying as little as possible with them.
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Post by β on Aug 30, 2023 11:58:12 GMT
Charge a £50 refundable deposit on issuing a camping slot. If clear when you leave you get it back. Many ways of forcing change, we're just too complacent to bother. It doesn't have to be like that ... queue song. Rog Complacent or just £££?
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Post by fi on Aug 30, 2023 12:11:29 GMT
Charge a Β£50 refundable deposit on issuing a camping slot. If clear when you leave you get it back. Many ways of forcing change, we're just too complacent to bother. It doesn't have to be like that ... queue song. Rog I still think the logistics of having large numbers of people leaving a site requires that they are carrying as little as possible with them. They entered the site carrying the stuff...
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Post by kris on Aug 30, 2023 12:17:35 GMT
BBC News - Video shows Reading Festival aftermath as clean-up begins www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-66646049For a generation that rightly is very concerned about the environment, this isn't a good look. Rog ETAΒ Β a very similar picture after Leeds Festival at the weekend too. The whole entertainment industry has a very high impact and isnβt very sustainable. But no one really talks about it, you might ruin the good vibes. I used to work setting up large festivals, the mess left afterwards is one of the reasons I donβt any more.
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Post by kris on Aug 30, 2023 12:20:53 GMT
Charge a Β£50 refundable deposit on issuing a camping slot. If clear when you leave you get it back. Many ways of forcing change, we're just too complacent to bother. It doesn't have to be like that ... queue song. Rog Some smaller less commercial festivals do run schemes like this. But the larger corporate events donβt really care. Glastonbury is one of the worst despite its right on credentials.
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Post by kris on Aug 30, 2023 12:25:03 GMT
Charge a £50 refundable deposit on issuing a camping slot. If clear when you leave you get it back. Many ways of forcing change, we're just too complacent to bother. It doesn't have to be like that ... queue song. Rog Complacent or just £££? just £££ the festival scene was taken over in this country about 15-20years ago. By corporations, festival republic and mean fiddler being two examples. This changed the whole game. Shambala is one of the few larger independent festivals left.
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Post by dogless on Aug 30, 2023 12:33:03 GMT
It's the punters leaving shite not the organisers. You have to assume they're too wealthy, too entitled, and too lazy. Do they go buy another tent and sleeping bag for their next festival ? As fi says they managed to get the stuff there without problem. Rog
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Post by kris on Aug 30, 2023 12:37:59 GMT
It's the punters leaving shite not the organisers. You have to assume they're too wealthy, too entitled, and too lazy. Do they go buy another tent and sleeping bag for their next festival ? As fi says they managed to get the sruff there without problem. Rog Itβs a corporate throwaway mentality. Iβve paid Β£300 to be here, so Iβll throw it there and someone else can pick it up. The whole scene changed when the corporates moved in and started buying up festivals. Before then organisers had tried to minimise rubbish and waste.
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Post by Trina on Aug 30, 2023 12:43:04 GMT
I remember Norbury Wharf doing a fish & chip supper for naked 'guests'.Brings a whole new meaning to batter bits...
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