I was so shocked to see how many people left their belongings, but it was even more shocking that it was normal for everyone online," she said.

"Everyone is really tired after a multi-day festival, but I didn't think people were that lazy or careless."

I'm suprised she's surprised.

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[–] 38 points 8 months ago (17 children)

Research by Green Music Australia has found one in every three tents taken to a music festival is left behind.

Holy crap. That would never occur to me - to leave a tent behind. I can't even

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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago (12 children)

    Tents are cheap: https://www.aussiedisposals.com.au/camping/tents/dome-tents.html

    $40. And these tents likely won't survive multiple uses anyway.

    They are still grubs for leaving them behind.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

    Well, I was thinking more about the other ones.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    What if we just move the tents outside the environment?

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    @CameronDev

    It's one of those rare occasions where it would be better for the environment if "festival tents" were made out of "cardboard" or "cardboard derivatives..."

    @SenatorCollins

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Eh, that still wastes the energy used to process the material, so still unideal. But probably better?

    Could change the model so that the festival provides the tents for $0 (or some tiny fee), but with a $500 bond. Trash the tent, lose $500, look after it and it gets re-used next festival.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    I too have a tent I bought for 40$, lasted me 8 treks, 36 nights, still going strong. Although I haven't trekked in 3 years due to life. But the tent is still fine last I checked a year ago.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    A festival is a much different environment.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I took a $60 tent to festivals and camping for 10+ years until I wore through the floor. Probably slept in that thing 200+ nights. Lived out of it for six weeks at one point.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago*

    Yep and not all festival goers are like you either. I’ve taken the same stuff to a few and it’s held up.

    At the same time several others trashed their brand new stuff in hours. Some of those tried to leave it as well or throw it in the bins. Some festivals I went to had someone with a Polaris et al collecting it.

    Never seen this at bush campsites, even ones like Mackenzie on K’gari.

    It’s a different environment and I should add we’re all different too.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    I'm guessing (given you have at least 2 tents) you're treating it properly and taking care of it though, which inebriated festival goers probably aren't.

    And $50 a decade ago bought you a much better tent than today, there is some absolute garbage out there now.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    The equivalent tent nowadays would be $600-$1200

    The bottom end is taken over by crap that I wouldn’t let my dog sleep in and the top end are for prosumer/competitive cross country hikers.

    Mid range pricing is either cheap crap (rebranded by scammers) or last years model or expensive product.

    This relates to camping equipment and also hardware and electronics.

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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, these are usually rich kids who can afford to just dump the tents and stuff when they're done.

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago

    It's not just that.

    Average people are buying cheap junk that's essentially single use, and they may not have anywhere to store it even if it's still usable after a 3-4 day festival.

    Rich people are 100% not doing normal parking either, they're in the VP or at least RV.

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  • [–] 19 points 8 months ago

    The old adage “Take only Photos, Leave only footprints” has not been drummed into kids these days.

    If the tent came back missing a single peg, we would get a hiding.

    If our campsite has anything but leaves and twigs after we left, we would be sent back the next weekend to do an Emu bob.

    We also cleaned up after each other because of the story about Everybody, Somebody, Nobody and Anybody.

    I feel really old!

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    All the organisers need to do is setup a Camping Exhibition straight after the Summer Festival, advertising free giveaways. First come, first served!

    Come on, people!

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    We have the same problem here in the US. Camping areas have blown up on Tik Tok, and people leave whole tents and other massive garbage. There's not enough park rangers to staunch the flow of waste and illegal camping. It's damaging lakes when people toss their camping gear into it.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Time for the Bethselamin protocol

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    It's the same in Germany; people are just too drunk and/or tired to care. I get it, but ffs take some fucking responsibility...

    You can probably make a good living out of returning all the bottles that are left behind, too.

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