People who left tents and rubbish behind at Glade

[railway raver]

Every year we have completely cleaned our area and brought everything, to the point of madness....


this year we left everything, including the tent i borrowed, and subsequently had to pay 90 fucking quid to replace

[Eamonn]

i left a tent, thats all...and like rewast says i only did this because i had it on good authority that all tents would be re-cycled for good causes....

I don't recall the Glade organisers ever saying any such thing.

People were told that at Glastonbury - but it turned out that most abandoned tents were just dumped into landfill. Some charities did accept a handful, but people were asked to leave them at special donation points and most didn't bother in the circumstances.

When you think about it, it would have taken a lot of effort to recover those tents and then get them into a usable state - probably cheaper to buy new ones in bulk, to be honest.

ah bugger, me & my group left a few tents thinking that they would get collected as well. wish i had given it more thought now

[baldmosher]

Considering the earthquake in Kashmir last year you'd've thought the Red Cross would be scouring for decent tents really, even considering the bulk costs - you can get volunteers to collect tents but you can't get them to make them at short notice.

[fletcher]

i packed my tent up at 5am monday morning. All our rubbish was left in bin bags in a big pile as per previous years

There was an awful lot of stuff left in the mud / on the floor, you can blame people for leaving stuff behind, gathering stuff up in the rain/mud isnt too much fun, but if you bag it up as you go along like we did, its not too bad

[Chopper]

I left my pop up tent....which the zips had bust on (thanks to Claire I think from camp GT for the Tape which helped keep me dry)

In hindsight I should have taken it back with me as it had a 2 year guarantee on it! Oh well....it was £55 and i got 2 festivals out of it!!! Not too bad I suppose!!!

[SparklyFairyType]

I left my pop up tent....which the zips had bust on (thanks to Claire I think from camp GT for the Tape which helped keep me dry)

In hindsight I should have taken it back with me as it had a 2 year guarantee on it! Oh well....it was £55 and i got 2 festivals out of it!!! Not too bad I suppose!!!

Haha Claire's green gaffa tape...classic. It also affixed the Camp Chillax sign to our tent

[Chopper]

I left my pop up tent....which the zips had bust on (thanks to Claire I think from camp GT for the Tape which helped keep me dry)

In hindsight I should have taken it back with me as it had a 2 year guarantee on it! Oh well....it was £55 and i got 2 festivals out of it!!! Not too bad I suppose!!!

Haha Claire's green gaffa tape...classic. It also affixed the Camp Chillax sign to our tent

Yeh I managed to Tape the top of the flap on my tent with it.....which helped keep me dry...i'd have been soaked otherwise

Thanks Claire

[Trickyvegas]

Gaffa tape - great idea, that's going on my future list of essentials

[boki]

Definitely a good idea to bring it - I went to get some on the Saturday and both Joe Bananas and the shop had sold out!

[buzzingtalk]

i cleaned up our spot and put everything in black binliners. i hadf to leave them behidn though, although i did spend half an hour picking up fag butts from the area around us. the people next to us left so much shit. i ended up cleaning it up cos my hands were muddy anyways. i thought it was better to at least clean up everything so all the litter pickers had to do was take the bin liners away. i did see some reall disguisting places though, and it is rediculous how some people cant use bin liners. or at least try and clean soem of their mess up :s SORT IT OUT PEOPLE! theres already gonna be enough shti in the wasing estate buiried in mud now you could have at least helped to clean the surfACE.

[espion]

I agree completely.. I think it is disgusting that people aren't more conscious of their actions..

Even during the festival, when walking through the mud trails through the campsite to where we were camped, there was litter everywhere - beer cans, nitrous capsules, plastic cups - even used condoms - and the place was filthy. We talked about how disrespectful (some) humans are, and how things need to change - not by making it easier for people, but by making people more conscious of their actions.

I had a bin bag tied to my tent that I used to keep everything tidy. I'm no hippy, but I was very aware of the fact that long after we are gone, sheep and cows will be grazing in those fields after the grass has grown back, and the last thing I would want to read in the papers is the headline nitrous oxide capsule kills cow at music festival...

There was also a point when we were in the Overkill tent (might as well rant about this here while I'm at it.. ), and a guy offered the remainder of his food that he was eating to some randoms around him - no one wanted it, so he dropped it on the ground, inside the tent, right in front of everyone. That shit really pisses me off. I gave the guy a death stare.. (I have been started on in Glasgow for telling someone to pick up their litter! )

There is no excuse.

I suggest that every clique of people seek a friend with OCD to keep the world clean!

[baldmosher]

You know I think I might have seen that happen as well... it might well be my mate, thinking about it. I did come out with some proper n00bs though.

You learn best by going camping, I believe. The Country Code is all important and applies just as much to festivals as the open countryside.

[TallSarah]

Gaffa tape - great idea, that's going on my future list of essentials

I always have three rolls of tape in my kit - black gaffer, black insulation and some 'hac' striped tape too

I was a girl guide, me

[pinkissimo]

I can honestly say that I never litter in 'real life' but I did leave my tent at Glade and I'm not ashamed... it would have been actually physically impossible for me to carry it out as I couldn't carry it in (luckily some lovely men from Camp GT came and rescued me on the way in)! Yep, I know that's my own fault for bringing too much stuff but I really felt I had no choice. Feel pretty guilty towards my old man though, as he bought the tent for me

[Chopper]

Part of the problem is that tents have became so cheap now....and are almost disposable items!

I think in hindsight I should have taken my tent with me, but thats the beauty of hindsight I suppose!

[pd2h]

I assume the fact we packed up all our bits into rubbish bags b4 we left to ensure they would cause no problems in picking them up was ok ?

[gregor]

i can understand people being reluctant to clean up the rubbish in there camps this year as generally it was trodden into the mud and all rather revulting, we did our best in our camp but have to admit we didn't leave it entirely rubbish free. The upside of people abandoning tents is that my mates were able to upgrade from their shitty £10 argos 2 man tent that leaked as soon as it rained to a massive 4/5/maybe even 6 man one with a middle bit high enough to stand in! a decent find for them!
though on a serious note, it is just plain lazy for people to leave their tents there particularly when they're in perfectly good condition. Are they all just gonna get thrown away? Bunch of my mates went to help the clearup at glastonbury and there was a lot of annoyance at the failure of the organisation with that charity who were supposed to be taking them.

[blutac]

I think your being a little harsh, for those of us without cars, lugging mangled tents around in what we had told might be torrential rain on the scale of friday seemed like a stupid thing to do. It's not all that easy trying to pack up a tent in the rain when you've barely slept for 4 days anyway!

[mashtastic]

I can understand not wanting to/not being able to, take belongings home from festivals. Although I've never left a tent, I have left gazebos before. Personally I think that if the tent or whatever is past fixing, then it should be binned with the rest of your campsite rubbish. If it is still ok you could put a note on it saying it has been left. I know loads of people who upgrade their tents at festivals, with those left behind at the end. I left a note on a tent my mate left behind after glasto 05, and the guys who came and packed and took it was really, really chuffed!

I asked a steward this year where to leave our rubbish, there's usually a couple of drop points. she looked a bit confused and said just to leave the bags near the path. They were taken within half an hour, but we didn't see by who. We completely cleaned the area of any scrap of rubbish after we had packed up on the Sunday night. Our mate was sleeping when we left and had gone into his tent before we started packing anything up, so I can imagine it was a bit of a shock opening his zip to find all the empty space around him!

I only really get annoyed at other people when they leave their site in a total and utter state, like some around us this year. I don't feel I have too much of a right as I am guilty of fogetting about fag butts, and just flick them on the floor before thinking about the film canister. HOWEVER I am pleased to say that this was my first glade since giving up three months ago, so I was only guilty of flicking spliff ends, but surely that's ok thinking about it? It's just cardboard and paper, does it just disolve?

[118girl]

Whenever I was dancing or walking around I made a point of going to the bins, but they were overflowing very quickly. The group of people I was camping with were awful about cleaning up, but our bin bags got destroyed as we got there so had nowhere to put it all. I think that problem was the mud - noone could see all the rubbish being dropped so thought it didn't matter as much. Also missioning it to the bins took longer. Defo think there shoudl be more bins next year.