We’ve stolen their future? Festival mess

[poo at Paul's]

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7119141/aerial-photo...


Seems that our environmentally astute youth are all talk no action.

Seriously, why does this happen? You don’t see it at campsites (to any degree) or other places that people have to spend the night under canvass.

Proper dirty scumbags. And the financial cost, not just the environmental cost.

Madness

[anonymous-user]

Dirty, wasteful feckers!

[joshleb]

Article is from 2018, but even still doubt much has changed amongst the youths, Reading and Leeds is normally 16-18 year olds as the main clientele.

When people can pick up a tent for £40 and live in it for a few days it just seems expendable.

I went to a festival a couple of weeks ago and was pleasantly surprised to see how much people tidied up and used all the recycling bags etc.

[Gecko1978]

The youth of today only care about the environment, LGBTQ issues, plastic in the ocean, 3rd word debt, war in the middle east etc if you believe what you read on twitter, Facebook and the Guardian, 99% of the kids who went there will have been more concerned about the price or larger and getting a good view of the main stage.

Edit to add. An good on them too life is too short to be Greata

[bigandclever]

Vast swathes of the youth are like vast swathes of the adults; they don’t give a fk about the environment, or anything much else that doesn’t directly affect them, which in Reading’s case is most likely to be focused on their GCSE results and getting served at the bars.

[Wacky Racer]

Last time I went to the Reading Festival was Wishbone Ash in 1975, and I was hit on the back of the head with a beer can half full of piss

https://bangnzdrum.blogspot.com/2020/08/memories-o...

[popeyewhite]

bigandclever said:

Vast swathes of the youth are like vast swathes of the adults; they don’t give a fk about the environment, or anything much else that doesn’t directly affect them, which in Reading’s case is most likely to be focused on their GCSE results and getting served at the bars.

That's as maybe but the throwaway culture is new. £40 for a tent is still £40. I suspect it's because the lazy feckers can't be arsed to fold it up and carry it home. I went to reading numerous times in the 70s and people did not leave tents. Plenty of beer cans though.

[98elise]

joshleb said:

Article is from 2018, but even still doubt much has changed amongst the youths, Reading and Leeds is normally 16-18 year olds as the main clientele.

When people can pick up a tent for £40 and live in it for a few days it just seems expendable.

I went to a festival a couple of weeks ago and was pleasantly surprised to see how much people tidied up and used all the recycling bags etc.

Why would somebody bin even a £40 tent though? My son was at Reading and he has a £40 tent. It's the one he used last time he went to a festival, and it's the one he will use at the next one.

£40 is £40!

[speedking31]

Usually they won't fit back in the bag once you have taken them out

[bigandclever]

popeyewhite said:

That's as maybe but the throwaway culture is new.

Welcome to the 21st century.

[nigelpugh7]

It’s actually even worse this year than it was in that previous article from 2018.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/08/31/make-f...


This time even the glamping tents have been left too it seems!

And there’s a lot of other tents there that look like they costs £100’s not just £40 cheap ones!

What on earth have we done to the morals of our youth that they think this is acceptable?

[normalbloke]

Breeders. Stop having ‘em!

[Mr Pointy]

There's a longer version of that article (might be behind the paywall though):

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/concerts/never-s...

I'm slightly staggered they found 50 iPhones left behind.

[Type R Tom]

As much as I hate to say it, might be a British issue. I have been to Glastonbury 4 times and Rock Werchter in Belgium 3 times in the last decade. While there is an amount of litter left on the camp site at the end of Werchter it is practically spotless compared to the chaos left behind at UK festivals.

The same applies to the festival site itself; clean toilets and very little litter. What makes the germans, dutch, french, Belgium (and a handful of Brits) treat that festival far better than UK ones.

I'm usually one to defend "British behavior" as I have seen many other teens and young adults across the world behaving just as bad but when it comes to festivals, there is no defence. Sheer laziness and a don't give a st attitude. They should be ashamed.

[remedy]

joshleb said:

Article is from 2018, but even still doubt much has changed amongst the youths, Reading and Leeds is normally 16-18 year olds as the main clientele.

When people can pick up a tent for £40 and live in it for a few days it just seems expendable.

I went to a festival a couple of weeks ago and was pleasantly surprised to see how much people tidied up and used all the recycling bags etc.

I see you and raise you 2021

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/n...

Seems Greta is having no impact.

A vile waste.

[Nickgnome]

Wacky Racer said:

Last time I went to the Reading Festival was Wishbone Ash in 1975, and I was hit on the back of the head with a beer can half full of piss

https://bangnzdrum.blogspot.com/2020/08/memories-o...

Saw them in Portsmouth, must have been 72 or 73

[Hoofy]

I remember reading about this at the time. I think they were told - or at least there was a rumour (that clearly spread) - that if they left their tent, it would be given to homeless people. It doesn't explain the rubbish, though.

[CambsBill]

Wacky Racer said:

Last time I went to the Reading Festival was Wishbone Ash in 1975, and I was hit on the back of the head with a beer can half full of piss

https://bangnzdrum.blogspot.com/2020/08/memories-o...

My one & only visit was in 1983 (Suzi Quattro was on the bill!). Oddly, it's the only place I've seen a live mole - one popped up out of the ground just in front of us, before buggering off pretty sharpish

[Triumph Man]

remedy said:

joshleb said:

Article is from 2018, but even still doubt much has changed amongst the youths, Reading and Leeds is normally 16-18 year olds as the main clientele.

When people can pick up a tent for £40 and live in it for a few days it just seems expendable.

I went to a festival a couple of weeks ago and was pleasantly surprised to see how much people tidied up and used all the recycling bags etc.

I see you and raise you 2021

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/n...

Seems Greta is having no impact.

A vile waste.

Given the number of people there the law of averages would suggest that a good number of them are going to be XR backing, Greta loving Vegan do-Gooders. Nothing worse than blatant hypocrites.

[Driver101]

It's the same at the end of every music festival. The rubbish to be cleared is a massive job. People budget to abandon everything. You can get tents, chairs and tables for the price of a few rounds of drinks.

They are priced to be disposable. They aren't worth the time to dismantle, carry back to the car and then spend hours washing the stuff when you're home.

Too many festival goers want to live like tramps for 4 days. People intentionally block the toilets and don't give a st about anyone else.