Glasto 2016 tent walkabout
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- 2016 walkabout in South Park 1 and Rigs Field at 8pm Monday after the public have gone home. What they left behind showed how lazy about 1/4 of them are - despite their pledge to "Leave No Trace". Its an insult to all the festival workers.
About me and the festival. I've worked at the festival 8 times as a sound engineer, stage hand, barman, PA and actor. I was onsite for 9 days in THAT 2016 mud. I do not work for the festival and have never been paid for my work there. I'm one of the many volunteers who gets a crew ticket in exchange for the work I do. This year I worked 60 hours before the festival and 30 hours during the festival to do my bit to ensure that the best festival in the world is....... well....... just that.
I took the video whilst killing time after completing this years work as the exit roads were blocked. It was not my job to clear up the campsites and the difference I could have made in the hour I spent wandering would me minute. I decided to take a video instead as that could be time better spent.
The camping fields that I filmed were not actually the worse ones I saw. They just happened to be the ones I filmed.
Later that evening, whilst queuing to leave, I saw that Oxlyers had been left in a much worse state with more abandoned tents and more unbagged rubbish.
I am amazed at how this video has spread and the vast number of views it has achieved. I'm totally shocked by the numbers.
The vast number of comments on here, on newspaper websites, on Facebook groups and festival forums have been supportive of the video. Lots of ideas for improvements and I expect that the Festival management team will be considering them all.
What I hope to have achieved by uploading this video is to spread the message that there is a problem with a small number of ticket holders that have the wrong attitude about respecting other people and their surroundings.
Call me a tree hugging hippie (I am), call me a moaner (I am) call me picky (I am). Just pack up your own stuff next year and either leave it at the charity collection point. Bin it if its broken. Or best of all, take it offsite yourself.
Flashing Frog 12-July-2016
#glastonbury #festival #mud #rubbish #litter #camping #tent
The irony is that a lot of these exact types think they're going to eradicate the selfish evils of capitalism and transform society into an empathy based socialist utopia.
You couldn't be more wrong. Glastonbury Festival certainly started out that way, but it has become about as middle class as you can get. For £228 +booking fee. These people are the Prosecco quaffing, M&S sandwich munching tossers who wouldn't think twice about throwing away a £150 tent. They are the embodiment of capitalism.
That's as lazy a comment as the tent dumping, but I liked it anyway.
+beastie most lefties are pseudo intellectual, middle class entitled brats. Fits the bill perfectly I would say. I've known plenty of people like that.
It's not the poor socialists that leave tents behind.They can't afford to.
They should just leave it there for next year's festival. These spoiled brats always have people picking up after them no matter what they do and never see the consequences.
This video was filmed by a really good guy who works at the Festival and loves and respects Glastonbury. He's not a pompous toff trying to judge people, he's a normal bloke who desperately wants to make sure that the festival's future is secured for decades to come, and not threatened by selfish people's behaviour. It's no different to the call to people not to pee on the land which, other than being pretty disgusting, is a genuine threat to the festival's future as it damages the land and could result in the festival's licence being revoked/not renewed. Just take your crap home people, it really isn't that hard and is the nice thing to do...
The abusive comments are a bit much really. This video was made by a guy who volunteers at the festival every year and cares deeply about it. He's just trying to draw attention to an issue that could seriously endanger the future of the festival and goes totally against everything the festival stands for. So if you are going to Glastonbury next year please clean up after you. There are places in every campsite where you can leave rubbish and packed up tents which are donated to charity.
I went in 98 and it was exactly the same
It's depressing to see this. 2016 was my first Glastonbury, as a trader. I felt bad about having to leave two piece of plywood behind that I'd been trying to drive my van over to get out of the mud. We were towed out by a tractor onto the roadway and just had to drive and keep the queue moving, so we couldn't retrieve the plywood. We left behind one groundsheet which was ruined by the mud - we rolled it up and put it in a skip, it took a couple of minutes. The scale of "I've paid my money and it's not my problem" is breathtaking. I bought a new 4 person tent for the festival, and know how much these things cost....some of the gear that people are leaving is expensive, not just little £20 festival specials, but big tents costing hundreds of pounds. These are people going to the festival knowing in advance that they will shirk all their responsibilities and simply because they can afford to leave their gear, they do, and never think of one second of the cost to others and the consequences. Jasus, we spent half a day packing a tonne and a half of gear into our van before we left and I wouldn't have dreamt of leaving any of our spare packaging, surplus canisters etc.
Well the plywood will eventually decompose, might take a decade or so.
it's a working dairy farm the rest of the year so the fields must be cleared down to the last tent peg, in the past people respected that and that the cost of cleaning up after these spoilt brats is not included in the ticket price
5:38 you're looking at about £1000 in just tents in that frame, it's madness
Wow, some of those tents are huge, I don't mind coming by and claiming a few decent ones lol
Emily Tweeted that in 2019 99.3% of tents were removed. THATS AN AMAZING IMPROVEMENT!!!!! THANKS AND WELL DONE TO EVERYONE THAT DID THAT!!!
Urgh this is one of my biggest pet hates. I went this year and took every last thing home with me and threw away all of my litter. Does this make me a saint? No! This makes me a reasonable person! PICK UP YOUR SHIT PEOPLE!
they should stamp or tag the tents with the ticket purchase number and send them a bill for the cleanup cost that may stop this
Worked at Glastonbury a few years ago as a cleaner great money plus found about 80 pound in cash 2 pairs of dre beats headphones a g shock watch other people on clean up got a lot more than I got
That's a shame. We left no trace my mom and I and I'm proud of that!
Absolutely 100% Spot on! There are spots where you can see that people have gone to the nth degree to 'leave no trace' - but there are those who are nothing more than "takers in society" - this kind of thinking isn't sustainable - not just at glastonbury but in the wider world. They let the rest of us down who do see and massively respect the monumental effort that the organisers and staff put into the festival - especially this year. The least we can do is tidy up after ourselves!
Just finished 3 days camping at Belladrum festival took everything home and black bagged all rubbish and put in designated area. Left no trace, it's not fucking hard.
Anyone else just waiting to see someone still passed out in one of the tents?
Tents should be tagged -& barcode at the entrance. Any left over tents incurs a £50 admin fee.
Maybe the festival goers should all be emailed to remind them... AND Mr.
Eaves (He can do the emailing!!) That there are thousands of desperate
and resourceless refugees drifting across Europe as we type... a few
tents and sleeping bags would not go amiss...
they're reminded non stop on the main stage screens to take their stuff with them or at lest pack it up and leave it somewhere to be used again
Indeed, the message was very clear this year. I hope an extract of this video will be used ahead of next year.
Disgusting, I remember camping with the scouts, at the end we would walk the campground in a line picking up every last piece of rubbish, seeing the mess makes me sick.
Its still done like that. Walking to check even for sweetie wrappers. Its why we get invited back to venues and often given discounts. Support your Scouts.
Same with the Girl Guides; every single tony sweet wrapper had to be picked up.
I did that at the Reading Festival in 1989. We cleared up a 20 metre square area around our tent and filled a few plastic bags with the runbish. Everyone who stayed until the Monday mucked in to help clear the field. A real sense of festival spirit back then. Not now though.
Molluscful Ah, that was the year before my very first Reading Festival! I think we did the same; it would have been shameful to us if we left any rubbish. We may had been pisshead students, but we had standards.
Agreed! :-)
Some looks really good. That's actually how I got mine! Found it abandoned at Download. Nice 4 person one. Been keeping it ever since! Some of those are worth hundreds! It's sad to see people abandoning their tents. What a waste...
that's utterly disgusting the amount of stuff left this year. yes there was a lot of mud covering my possessions and I've managed to clean it ALL at HOME. I took everything back with me and bagged up all our rubbish and took it to the bin. perfectly good tents there just left :-( soooo wasteful and selfish/lazy :-(
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Same here, we are still going through our stuff and we are currently finishing off the tent clean, we left nothing and out tent is 20kgs, there is no need for this
Love the farm. Leave no trace.
END OF!!!!!!!!!
Sickening.
Shocked by this, but good to know the message has got across this year. I have camped for many years, you look after your kit and pack it away. It may get dirty, but on a dry day just get it out and clean it down..simple job and you have kit for life.
Admittedly I have never been to a festival, but my son does in his camper van. Part of his kit that comes is a sticker for his window to show what field he should be in also a serial number showing who it belongs to and how many should with it.
I do not know whether it is practical to have some sort of registration system for the tents, with a semi permeable sticker with a number on that can be stuck on the outside to identify the same, so if it gets left behind, they know who it belongs to and they then get charged the disposal costs. Also it may show who has bought extra tents, or who shouldn't be there, and charge them for registration or ticket or kick them out. Your thoughts Flashing Frog?
when you camped did you spend all week partying on e's and whizz
Ant these guys argue year after year that campground tickets get more and more expensive... I can only shake my head... My tent goes with me for 12 years now. And when i leave a festival, i leave nothing but my footsteps!
I've worn tents out before replacing them.
this is unreal... I actually feel nauseous - how CAN people do this. Do they have no shame?
Whilst its no excuse, (I went about 7/8 years ago in my twenties) Sunday goes on late into the night, people continue drinking and the next morning is a hungover race over who can get out of the area first to their car.
I really think they need to look at starting the music on the Thursday, and wrapping things up gradually on Sunday afternoon rather than Monday morning. Food/entertainment could stay up during the day and people would have less of a rush to leave.
Not hippies, drunk stupid assholes. Big difference.
I feel the same way but I think at least some of it is motion sickness from the filming.
Sometimes SJW's don't have time to take down a tent or clean up their rubbish.
When injustice calls they have to move fast.
I imagine most had to urgently get to the anti-Brixit protest in London.
No, the majority are every day people, there are fewer and fewer 'hippies' every year. The younger ones seem to be the worst, teen - mid 20's in my experience.
My guess is, that most of them traveled by plane and that the luggage fees are to high to carry all the equipment.
Maybe the festival should offer rentable tents.
They already do... you can hire from a company that puts the tents up for you ready ... I'm assuming they take them down too ... this isn't the hired ones is it .. I'm assuming they'd look the same but possibly not if different 'man' sizes ?
Thats one powerful video right there. Ought to be seen by everyone as part of their ticket purchase process.
Another mans trash is another mans treasure, my whole tent went walk about with everything including my musings in a book before it was over, so I was grateful for some free clothes at the end of it :-)
I felt sick, but it was the camera work!
Me too!
and the mic
Thanks! Didn't plan to show it to anyone. But I'm glad you commented as most people in life are really nice to me.
+Flashing Frog Thank you for sharing this!
I found the content interesting, and I wasn't offended that it made me feel queasy!
I can remember going to Glasto in the 90's and the audience actually cleared up after each set - not all of them but a lot of them. This is just people with too much disposable income....
part of me is horrified about the state its left in but............there is some serious money left behind there and as glastonbury supports many charitable causes those tents and sleeping bags can provide huge amounts of help. it is a sad state of a throwaway society but its also a massive boom just cos of the idleness of others.
Like others have commented elsewhere. The time to clean these, take them down fix fold etc is just far too time consuming and costly. The Kar-tents made from cardboard is the only way to go.
In 2008 I uploaded an excerpt from BBC Countryfile (since taken down) titled 'Glastonbury Shame' about all the crap left behind at this "festival" and the excuses people made for leaving it. Eight years later and nothing has changed from generation can't be arsed.
Oooh! I'll buy a few second hand tents if there's any going! One previous, careless owner yes?
There were some seriously expensive tents there... Who leaves something like that behind?
Spoiled rich kids!
agreed, was looking for a new tent for a family camping holiday (which is cheaper than a family glasto ticket) should have popped down there on a monday, spotted a few nice Outwells!
This is horrible who would leave all their stuff for someone else to pick up after them. In 2016 we wanted to leave our tent because it was old so first we packed it up and put it into a bin on-site.
This makes me so sad. We stayed at South Park 1, left no trace and actually carried our tent back to Finland on coaches, trains and even on the plane. It's not that hard guys? Watching this makes you feel like the people who take everything home do it for nothing.
This is so disgraceful. Would it be possible to put out a small advert for people to come onsite on the Monday , they could pay a very small fee, but they could choose any tent they wanted to take home. Some of those tents look quite good and quite new. Or as others have said many homeless would be so glad of one, the festival goers should at least have the decency to fold them up and donate them.... they have no respect for the brilliant location they were given to camp out
he's a good guy... thanks for all the hard work guys...
Absolutely disgusting. Some people with far more money than decency. Thanks for filming this.
i hoped he would discover a drunk guy still sleeping in his tent
Now I have a genuine excuse as to why I have never been to one of these festivals and never will.
There's a few tents there I'd love to have. I left a rectangle of slightly yellow grass.
At the beginning I was like 'free tents!' But by the end I'm like 'Theres so many of them'
What gets done with them? There are literally hundreds. It would take a week to take them all down.
cool, free tents to sell on ebay
Yeah comes with free used syringes, condoms and vomit and excrement lol.
they'd left the syringes, condoms, excrement and vomit anyway. So the tents are a plus.
At Download Festival the good tents that are left behind are donated to charity. Don't know if Glastonbury does it but i think every festival should do it.
The organisers need to change how they organise it, I go to festivals everywhere and never see this amount of waste, so what's different with festivals like rewind at Henley and Edinburgh, the tickets are more expensive and you don't leave unless you have tidied your stuff away, loads of patrols around to make sure of it- the higher price means you can afford the staff, makes sense to me
so cant it just be a thing where at the end of the festival people can come and take what they need? i know loads of people who would come and take a tent for themselves but would stay to take down and sort out the rest so they can be donated.
Saw 2 tents on this video that I own and they weren't exactly cheap with a RRP of £300 & £80. Can't believe people leave all this behind when a charity would happily take them for refugees :'(
Require people to hang a ticket with their registration number on it on their tent. And if that tent is abandoned then they're banned from getting tickets for five years.
to everyone who says pack them up, sell them on, donate it all to charity, i say this: its that attitude that causes the problem. many people leave their tents thinking they will go to good causes and their are charities that want them. that is crazy, it took 175000 people to put those tents up, how many to take them down again? plus theyre wrecked! filled with rubbish and filthy. the festival needs to identify whos tent and ban them from coming back!
nobody leaves their tent and thinks "oh it's alright, it'll go to a good cause"
they think "pff, such a hassle to pack this filthy tent back up, I'll just leave it"
They don't think about what happens after they leave, they just think of their own convenience :p
I always make all my friends pick up EVERYTHING once we're done at a festival.
The key is to just never let it get really dirty in the first place. Have a proper garbage bag or bin, sort your clothes, be dilligent about where you wear your boots etc.
so many free tents
Etnaa Flonne I know right?? If I lived nearby, I'd get my car and pick up the best ones 😂😂
save hundreds of dollars cuz i am now looking for one to live in and it gonna cost 800 bucks sense i cant work and have no income might as well be a zillion o.o
Some of the festivals in Belgium organise a day where people can come and take whatever tents or belongings were left behind unpacked. That way there's people clearing most of the area free of cost and most of the stuff ends up getting reused.
I sincerely hope these tents end up with people who need them and not in landfill.
i know the feeling I had to clear up all the tents after a big music festival in Shrewsbury
WHAAAT ??? Mais comment on peut abandonner des tentes à 400/ 500 euros ?
It's unbelievable the amount of of perfectly good stuff that has been left behind. I've only done after festival litter picking at Glastonbury once, in 1993, and there was nothing like that sort of waste then. Yes, there were bags of groceries that hadn't been used, and the occasional bottle of booze, but I don't remember any usable tents having been left behind. Broken ones, yes, but not the perfectly good ones that we see there.
My first Glasto was back in 94 (yes a fence jumper) and my last was 2011 (disgusted at the sheer middle class ignorance of it all, and yes I am probably some kinda middle classed wanker too) I have 9 Glastos under my belt. A once great fetival, full of diversity of music, styles, entertainments and most of all people! Since the new fence around the start of this century, it became blindingly obvious that certain "types" were being manouvered and discouraged from attending (I am not and have never been a krusty by the way) maybe "types" we have \ had all been guilty of sneering at, at worst? but ultimately a hearty mix so diverse that we were all encouraged to mix and to really live up to the myth of a Glastonbury vibe by partying together, having fun together, learning different ways to converse and obviously buying certain drugs that other "types" had over the mainstream jeans and t shirt people... yes! LSD, Shrooms, Hash truffles (rip off but you always bought some) those skanky girls that always smelled of that hippy perfume, selling watered down tequila shots from their oddly sexy holsters blah blah blah often found in higher numbers operating around the green fields /stone circle areas. like I say, since the turn of the century these diversities have been replaced between upper working classes and middle classes... gone were the days where you fished out your old scabby jeans, hiking boots and big comfy night time jumpers or fleeces, and they were replaced with pre Glasto shopping trips to buy designer clothes and massive party tents for the after after hours noz and general carry on of debauchery, hurrah!
Im not gonna lie, I have left behind mud filled tents since my first 22 years ago.... usually because I have gotten into a right 2 n 8 and couldnt be arsed (shocking I know but there always used to be a guilt freeing rumour that the tents were collected and sent away to oxfams etc) obviously it was BS but hey.... maybe the site should open up the gates and I am sure some enterprising souls would happily spend a few days carefully removing these tents for resale? has to be 10s of £s worth? the point is if you stream down a festival crowd to identikit peoples who have a higher amount of disposable income, and frankly a more greedy personal world view, you are gonna get exactly this behaviour. 6 people all chip in for a £500 super tent, come monday morning, its full of mud due to the excessive floods this site is famed for, youre probably gonna stand together, broken and vote to leave it and get home asap. sad times but if you invite cunts you get cuntish behaviour. ps its 50 stages, not a hundred and yes its probably the biggest mainstream festival in the world but no way is it the best~! everyone should go once but their are much better fetivals in the UK let alone the world.... but I get your point film maker.
Check the bottom of any single Glastonbury poster and you will see it is "over 100 stages"...If you include all the micro venues up in the late night area, green fields etc its probably close to 150. Sure youve been as recently as 2011?!
+Lucy Mckeown yeah I am sure.... Sorry I was just repeating the info Michael Eavis repeated on the TV last weekend. Ooh a "pop up stage" and a "micro stage" so sorry, my mistake. Out of all the facts, the one I got wrong was the one I requested from the originator. Thanks for correcting me in such a glib way Lucy
+oxboybysea re quoted not requested (predictive text)
that fucking bell tent is worth 800 bucks where I live.
I've volunteered with the recycling crew for 2 years now. Its a shame what people leave. If you brought it with you take it home with you.
you camped at Tom's field? - this is no where near as bad as when I left on Monday afternoon!
revol148 yeah we camped in Tom's field :) I left as well Monday midday and witnessed many just getting up and leaving. I can imagine what you saw.
I'll help you clean up next year. Into the boot of my estate. I don't mind hoying a few nice tents over the washing line and a quick wash down with some tech wash lol 😂
Some of these tents must have been very expensive, but then, anyone paying Eavis's entry prices cannot be short of money.
Trainee accountants & bankers, must make up a large proportion of the intake.
Of course, if one has £10,000 , one can take Eavis's "Glamping " options, and eat lobster for dinner, washed down with champagne.
This festival bears no relation to what it used to be; a spiritual event.
No concessions at all are offered to the local Glastonbury residents, yet our name has been taken, and even part-patented by Eavis, and the town was the inspiration for the festival as well.
Eavis is a money-grabber, and not the nice man that people think he is.
A friend of mine is part of the clean up team. They salvage anything they can and take it to charity shops. The reusable tents are sent away to be cleaned , then are packed away ready for emergency workers to take to disaster zones. The bulldozers then come in and clean the rubbish up.
appalling, money spent on tents that have been wasted, rubbish left, all for someone else to pick up, if I go camping or to a festival, I take my tent and rubbish and belongings back home with me, thanks for sharing
kept expecting him to find a body in one of the tents
I've been going to the big G since 89, I no longer go as it's sickening what it has become, a victim of it's own success, years back it was a real community feel with everyone looking out for each other, not much was left behind as the sort of people going did not have disposable incomes like the crowd you have been getting the last 15+ years, more importantly they were (for the most part) people who cared about the environment & each other, the rot really all stated IMO when travelers were refused entry & specialized security had to be laid on, something which would never have been needed had it remained in the hands of the travelers to regulate, something they did really well without pay just for the love of it & the wanting of this summer place to lay back & enjoy the music & company. Heck now you can't even get a ticket unless you have super fast broadband, I myself used to do what little I could & would dismantle tents & equipment to take home & find new homes for, I would ram my little 3 wheeler full to the hilt with anything recyclable, a drop in the ocean, but it felt like I was doing something, now they will not even let you remove anything from the site, they say it all goes to charity, but I have seen with my own eyes that they have in past years simply pilled things up with bulldozers in to huge piles & set them on fire, this is whats wrong with society, so many could benefit from these discarded items, like the 3rd world & eve the homeless here in the UK, many go without as much as a sleeping bag on the streets & here we see those with more than they need not caring as daddy will by me new stuff for the next festival, it really does make you feel physically sick.
Utterly disgusting..they've got far too much money...I would hope that the organisers would invite free tents for folk...I would like one!!...and well done FFrog for highlighting this!!
Danny
Thanks Walrus. Thought it should be seen and commented on.
Here in Spain, there's one festival not as big as Glasto, but targeted specially to teenagers, and the first Monday morning after it concludes you can find somithing quite similar to this video. And there's always a bunch of Gipsy families searching for any mobile, wallet or similar people left there. But problem is that if anybody non-gipsy try to go to get any tent or similar, they get threatened by the gipsys xDDDD (true story)
Our local fire brigade are gifted a couple of trucks rental, they pop down, fill 'em up, bring them back to Cornwall, check & sort and have a massive sale on the local rugby pitch. All for charity. OK, some people don't get the whole 'leave nothing but a footprint' thing, but there is a bright side.
Average tent cost £100. Airbed £15, Sleeping bag £15, chair £5. About £150 abandoned per tent you see :(
So much waste, and looking at that it wasn't even that muddy up there all those tents looked in really good condition. *sigh*
some of those tents were well over the £100 mark, theres £1000's of pounds just wasted, easy come easy go :-(
There are even some heading towards the £400 mark and over, I put £100 as it evens out the £20-£60 tents, of which there were many left. It breaks my heart to think of the money, quite literally, thrown away at festivals every year.
Breaks my heart too, crying shame, such a throwaway society :-(
Your average is way off. Most of those cost more than that, and there's quite a few tents in the video worth hundreds of pounds.
What happens to all these tents? Because my scout troop would be able to make use of them, we have to buy 4 - 6 tents every couple of years, as we do a lot of camping and they wear out, and they are expensive.
I once picked up a hitch hiker (few years ago) who's job it was, to go round all the summer festivals in the UK, dismantling tents that had been disgarded, and pass them on to charities. This was a married guy with 3 kids, and it took him away from his family, but he thought it an impoirtant job. I agreed.
The thing to do is take a van to Glastonbury and stay a couple of extra days packing down all of the most expensive/good condition tents and loading them into your van. Think how many tents a decent sized van could fit. Three of you would be enough to pack up tents fairly quickly. Stick them all on eBay and you'll be laughing, you could even take the pics on site before you take them down to save on having to re-erect them on the other end.
i am completely horrified! How could they do that? all that was asked was "leave no trace". at least our group did as we were asked!
Get a van, roll the tents up, sell £40 each on ebay £60 for the bigger ones each, make a few grand easily. Not too difficult either.
As you suggested in your commentary, I'm sure there's some scouts, charities, youth groups and other organisations around who would happily come and collect the unwanted tents. It does begger belief though, why people would leave so many things!
I remember when those pop up tents were first launched. Festivals used to be littered with them because by the end nobody could figure out how to fold them up again. Surprised to see it happening with such big expensive tent though. But, I guess at £230+ a ticket you're going to mainly have people who can afford to just walk away and not have the hassle. Probably the only time in their lives they've ever slept in a tent so have no compunction to use it again. Hope there's s charity involved shipping them over to refugees in Calais and similar places that would benefit from shelter.
so many perfectly good expensive tents left behind. I'd pack them all up and re-sell them.
I hear it's very overcrowded now, greed taking over. Even when I've been in a right state after a festival I've always packed my tent up etc. Why waste money on decent kit like that
wow, I would make a lot of money selling those tents
That moment when he comes across a guy rolling about his tent still thinking it's Friday haha
Thanks for posting, and i like the commentary. Disposable living. It's disgraceful and must be so sad for the staff after such an amazing festival. I know when I Ieave Glasto seeing all the tents makes me feel like it's turned into a dystopia, like people have fled a disaster. We need to all spread the word that while one person leaving one tent feels it's a small act, it leads to this tragedy of the commons. Those who continue to do it need to be fined/banned from coming.
This year was my first year at Glastonbury. In fact my first ever festival. And it was amazing. But when I found out about the tents and rubbish left I was horrified. There are bins everywhere, and dump points. You can pick up plastic bags for free and use them as your bin. I was a bit conscientious with my litter. Even when pissed out my mind watching a band, I would still crunch my finished cans and bottles and but them back in my rucksack to throw in a bin later. Even if you do leave your tent behind. There are so many charity points you could drop this stuff at, where they pass it on to homeless people, send stuff to Africa and other developing communities, or sell it to raise money for projects. I'm 23 and my brother was 21, we were camped with other young people around us. They took there stuff with them but then all the other groups around us just left it. And it disgusting. Sort it out people of all age groups and demographics. It's not hard. It's a 4hr wait to get out anyway.
Good stuff.
Such a shame more are not like you ... parents should be ashamed of the vileness destroying out planet
With only a few weeks to go until 2019 festival - what has changed? Well, the David Attenborough effect has highlighted pollution - especially single use plastic. Supermarket bags and use of single use cups have reduced. This year the festival is not selling single use plastic bottles. And Extinction Rebellion have taken to the streets to demand governmental change. Lets hope this years festival is MUCH CLEANER than the last one.
We always go and look at the stuff they leave it's so shocking
This will always be something that's part of a Festival. If you come from all around the world with a group of 10 people you aren't going to bother taking that tent back with you. As instead I think the festivals take it on the wrong way. I worked at some festivals before and after the people were gone we weren't even allowed to pick up some decent tents to take home. They should allow people (scouts etc.) to walk around the terrain to salvage anything they can put to good use before they just throw it all away. Simply, it's a win-win..
Just to add to the below - when I fist started going, most folks would be there from anything from a couple of weeks before the festival, & from anywhere to a month afterward, so anything left behind would end up being recycled/used by those staying on, now you get shown the door in-politely the second the festival is over as it's all down to the money now, it's such a disgrace.
Great video and TOTALLY agree with your points. People have no respect for their surroundings. Take your shit home.
would it be OK if you just took one of the tents for your self? You'd need to clean them and maybe stitch some patches onto it, but many are good (and expensive) tents.
Add a clean up fee deposit which is only returned if their pitch is clear and tidied before they can exit. Wouldn't be hard to have stewards give exit passes which entitled them to get the fee back. Or they forfeit the clean up fee deposit...
Due to the extortionate price of Glastonbury tickets now, only rich folk can afford to go and they're the type of sods that leave all of this mess!
Thanks for posting this. Absolutely shocking. Every year the same thing.
Hopefully the message will spread and this will become seen as less acceptable.
20 years since I last went, now a very different crowd, full of privileged young kids in the same Hunter wellies and shorts. Most people were respectful but a lot of the youngsters were deliberately throwing their rubbish around; their tents surrounded by crap. It ruined it for other people who were trying to follow the Glasto code of leaving nothing behind.
The organisers could learn a thing or two from The Burning Man Festival where nothing is taken in, nothing is left behind.
People see rubbish. I see free expensive stuff. There's tens of thousands of dollars worth of tents there.
So many new tents which Guides and Scouts spend countless hours fundraising for. Surely at least some of these could be donated or sold on. I know it takes more man power to do wig an extensive clean up operation. But the young people in these charities would really benefit!
thank you for uploading this video. your spirit and message couldn't be more commendable. I'm hoping to get tickets for my first ever Glastonbury in a few weeks. but I still want to have a wander round on the monday, to just see if this year's improvement has been sustained. also, I think there's something truly magical about wandering around the festival site once everyone has departed. all the energies are still floating around.
Thank you for thanking me. See you on the farm!! :)
I worked clear up in the 80's and to be there was more small rubbish; cans, bottles, sheets of acid and pipes, then now by the look of it, but there were very few tents left behind. throw away society.
Why don't they spray paint each tent with a big stencilled number that was registered to the ticket holder... Easy to track (unless they burnt the tent down!) and a badge of honour when used in the future!!!
I go to Soul Survivor - A big UK Christian Festival, and as you would expect, the place is spotless at the end of 5 days, only yellow patches of grass and the odd patches of mud. Its great. This is just laziness and because this has started, its now acceptable behaviour. Sad :(
I love soul survivor which week are you going? and I've never seen any rubbish there everyone packs down there tent it's still part of he festival for me working together to pack down the tent but this digistes me how everyone just leaves their tents and all the rubbish I mean think of the Guy who's land it is he is not responsible to clear it up
As far as I was aware, these tents are left to dry and there is a cleanup crew which takes the tents down and packages them to send to refugee camps
Thats not true. Most of them have to be destroyed. There are designated places to drop your tent off if you want it recycled.
That looks like the aftermath of some sort of zombie attack
i want a tent, how can i get one ?
my guess is they buy these for the camp and have no idea how to pack them up again. then if they did they don't want to dirty their cars. Plus they won't use the stuff till same time next year. Beyond idle!!! We have the same here at the V festival. Our local Rotary clubs attend to try and remove usable large tents for disaster areas. But they only have 24 hours. After that they are bulldozed and landfill. Makes my blood boil. How damn wasteful!