I thought the younger generation cared about the planet?

We thought exactly the same OP. It goes to show...that no matter what anyone tries to do, governments or otherwise, we’re always going to be fighting against this appalling mindset.

I just find it’s everywhere. Of course, it’s not solely young people I would imagine, there are the older ones who’ve retained the same way of thinking as when they were young.

This is a photo from a hot air balloon of the aftermath of Reading Festival

There was a comment earlier that many festival goers are the older generation.
That might be the case for some festivals but the vast majority attending Leeds festival are under 30, mainly mid to late teens.

festivalvanlife.com/are-reading-and-leeds-festivals-safe-for-16-18-year-olds/

Regardless of age, the mess left behind is totally unacceptable.

I thought the pictures pretty shocking too GG, after all in the main festival goers will be members of the generation most affected by everything associated with global warming. My sons were both festival goers, but I know the tent came back because it's in our garage.

well it is more than clear I live by Jack Daniels too

MissAdventure

I don't need to go to festivals to see rubbish strewn all over the place.
I live near a senior school, and see no evidence whatsoever of the parents or teenagers having any regard for the environment.

All along the roadside in an AONB.
At one time old MacDonald had a farm, now it's MacDonalds rubbish everywhere. And the rest.

I don't need to go to festivals to see rubbish strewn all over the place.
I live near a senior school, and see no evidence whatsoever of the parents or teenagers having any regard for the environment.

I am glad I don't go to large Festivals.

Apparently the end was awful people were pouring petrol on tents and setting fire to them and also people were pouring urine on peoples possessions and smearing the tents with faeces.

I was so gobsmacked by this I googled it. It seems to have been going on for years and is considered part of the Sunday night entertainment by many. People are now employed to go around putting the fires out. Apparently smearing faeces on their tents is a way of marking their property to keep others out of their tent - which may explain why so many are left behind. Part of the Sunday night 'games' is destroying other people's property.

Throwaway society, easier to leave something that costs very little.
When we used to go camping tents were too expensive to leave behind, plus they were soooo heavy and made of thick canvas.
Blame cheap imports and a mindset of people who can’t be A***d to pick up their rubbish.
And guess what ? There are no consequences!
No fines for littering as the cost of picking up the rubbish is built into the cost of the tickets, so it just goes on.

grannypiper

My son used to go to the Download festival, every year he came home with a better tent, chair, sleeping bag an cool bags than what he went with ( he brought his old things back too) The last year he went, he arranged for my Husband to pick him up in one of his work trucks. DS had bought a stack of tents, chairs and coolbags. He stored them in my husbands yard during the winter and come the summer he sold "festival packs" made up from the bargains he had bought the year before. He made enough to travel Europe for 6 months.

Good for him ??????????

grannypiper, that's brilliant

GrannyGravy13

JaneJudge when our children were going to festivals they could not afford to leave their tents and equipment behind each time as that would have meant them having to continually purchase new stuff for each occasion.

Mine wouldn't be able to afford to leave stuff either fwiw

My son used to go to the Download festival, every year he came home with a better tent, chair, sleeping bag an cool bags than what he went with ( he brought his old things back too) The last year he went, he arranged for my Husband to pick him up in one of his work trucks. DS had bought a stack of tents, chairs and coolbags. He stored them in my husbands yard during the winter and come the summer he sold "festival packs" made up from the bargains he had bought the year before. He made enough to travel Europe for 6 months.

In reality only a few are reused. There is just a short window of time when charities can go round collecting tents before machinery is brought in to bull doze through the debris. My son went to Reading several times and volunteers for one of these charities, he told me that they were very specific about the type of tent and equipment they wanted, many of the tents were unsuitable ( been damaged, too muddy, still wet, cheap or not water proof etc) . I think the organisers only allowed a few hours for them to take down tents and carry chairs etc away so thousands were left behind.

I think many festival goers think they are helping charities by leaving stuff behind but they are being mislead.

vegansrock

Yes I think they are sent to homeless/ refugee charities, so festival goers will know that, and if they aren’t going to reuse the tent they may as well leave it.

some are cheap single use rubbish, you can buy a tent online for less than a tenner

It's brilliant that the tents are being reused, but it means that these people will just buy more of everything for next time because they consider them to be disposable, which means more and more plastic rubbish is being produced that will litter the planet for years to come.

was this Reading? Apparently the end was awful people were pouring petrol on tents and setting fire to them and also people were pouring urine on peoples possessions and smearing the tents with faeces.

JaneJudge when our children were going to festivals they could not afford to leave their tents and equipment behind each time as that would have meant them having to continually purchase new stuff for each occasion.

This has been happening for years unfortunately. It is good if the tents are repurposed but it is just the amount of general rubbish.

Lets face it, it isn't just festivals. I live rurally and you really wouldn't believe the amount of rubbish people either leave behind or throw out of their car windows as they drive past. As a village we have a scheme where we have litter picking equipment and we all take it in turns....but then we also have fly tippers.

All of it is disrespectful to nature. I have no idea of litterers ages.

I know it isn't my festival going son throwing rubbish everywhere as I borrowed his car yesterday

I have walked home behind groups of school children eating crisps, sweets and fizzy drinks etc. Many of them just drop the litter as they go even when passing bins. A few years ago I recall a day of protest when lots of school children took a day off school to protest against climate change. It seems that they can take action when it means sciving off school but they can’t manage to place their litter into a bin. Having said that the littering problem is across the age groups. Every month together with other people, almost all of us middle age or older, do a litter pick around our town and every month it gets worse. Very disheartening.

What a dreadful mess. It’s good that the tents and sleeping bags could be put to good use, and well done to whoever thought of that. Why people would leave them behind I can’t imagine. Sadly the rubbish is typical of wherever crowds gather. The landowners or council tax payers pay for it to be cleared up. I wonder if the people who do this were ever taught, as I was and doubtless most GNs were, to always take your rubbish home if there wasn’t a bin to put it in?

Yes I think they are sent to homeless/ refugee charities, so festival goers will know that, and if they aren’t going to reuse the tent they may as well leave it.

Disrespectful and inconsiderate people - in all generations and genders.

I'm sure I read somewhere that the abandoned tents aren't wasted. They're collected and donated to the homeless via charities I think.