People who left tents and rubbish behind at Glade

[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.

[espion]

i think if people are going to leave tents, the least they could do is break it down - but if you are going to go that far, you might as well just pack it in a black bag and put it in a bin on your way out..

as for the other rubbish - like I said before - there is no excuse for it. People should be more conscious of their impact on the environment, whether you be in the city, the country or a festival.

People these days are far too used to the attitide that 'someone else will deal with it'

[shakyjane]

People these days are far too used to the attitide that 'someone else will deal with it'

funny, thats what I thought the organisers attitude to people getting out of the site was

[Sperge]

Just as a quick update on this, thought people might like to know that the organisers are still clearing up the shit on site. This is what I was told by one of them last night:

"We are still on site, tidying the trash up buried in the mud - nearly there tho."

I so shouldn't have left that vat of toxic waste behind.

[Chopper]

Bloody hell....that has taken a while! Does it always take this long or is it just down to how much mud there was?

[Sperge]

Bloody hell....that has taken a while! Does it always take this long or is it just down to how much mud there was?

I think it was down to the sheer amount of mud. It only normally takes a few days, I'm sure. I think the problem is that the mud dried out but stuff was still buried in it, so they've had to dig it all out.

Just for comparison, Beautiful Days had much less rain than Glade did. They did put down lots of straw (it was being grown in the fields being used as car parks, so presumably the landowner was self-sufficient on that front) - but it still ended up as muddy as Glade.

I did once again drive out of the mudbath car parks when all around were stuck. We really ought to put up an article here telling people how to drive properly in mud. You don't need a 4x4. I used a little front-wheel drive Peugeot - you need to keep it in second gear (or preferably third if your engine has enough torque at low revs). Under no circumstances should anyone rev the engine when they think they're about to get stuck - that guarantees that you'll be stuck.

[pd2h]

Bloody hell....that has taken a while! Does it always take this long or is it just down to how much mud there was?

I think it was down to the sheer amount of mud. It only normally takes a few days, I'm sure. I think the problem is that the mud dried out but stuff was still buried in it, so they've had to dig it all out.

Just for comparison, Beautiful Days had much less rain than Glade did. They did put down lots of straw (it was being grown in the fields being used as car parks, so presumably the landowner was self-sufficient on that front) - but it still ended up as muddy as Glade.

I did once again drive out of the mudbath car parks when all around were stuck. We really ought to put up an article here telling people how to drive properly in mud. You don't need a 4x4. I used a little front-wheel drive Peugeot - you need to keep it in second gear (or preferably third if your engine has enough torque at low revs). Under no circumstances should anyone rev the engine when they think they're about to get stuck - that guarantees that you'll be stuck.

As always a wealth of knowlege and a rally driver to boot... I am wondering if your previous comment about being a whole group of people is true

Good advice though got me out too without getting stuck!!

[Beatmonkey]

Yea second gear all the way, someone else mentioned it on here as well, deflate the tires (just make sure you've got a foot pump with you to get them back to an acceptable level, not many air compressors on the edges of feilds) ohh and if you've seen the trick of when driveing in snow rock back and foreward once you do get stuck to compact it, this does not work in mud, you just sink lower and lower. Also clutch control people, the genral smell of burnt clutch in that feild was revolting.

[enjinn]

i didn't get to go! someone has to come with me this year or else i'l go get spun out by myself, the rubbish was bad enough in 2006 i totally agree, didn't see it last time but i do agree, its awful, people could try and use the hole in the toilet too instead of every other part them.....i packed all my rubbish into my tent in '06, found loads of stuff when i got home it was brilliant! apart from the vomit on one side that had gone all nice and crispy..... yum yum!! E n j i n n

[stimpz23]

Basicly I stayed on site untill quite late on Monday, I just couldn't be arsed to get involved with the carpark chaos.

The state of the site was f**king disgusting !!!

I mean, if did want to take your stuff home at the very least you could pulled down your tents and used some black bags.
Your all cleary a bunch of useless, lightweight, selfish, spoilt w*nkrs. Just cos you leave rubbish all over your s**thole city (London) doesnt mean you can do that to the countryside.

I'm trying not too sound self rightous but I've gone to a lot of outdoor free parties and i've done a lot litter picking (that is if the police let us).The only reason we go to festivals is to enjoy parting in the great outdoors. Please try and have more respect for nature and the people who bust they're gut to put on this amazing party.

Also, dont joke yourself about the charity thing, from what I've heard as with glastonbury there was far too much stuff in too much of a state to be of any use.

YOUR ALL MASSIVE C*NTS !!! Including all my mates that did it !!!

End Rant

PS Thanks for all the freebies you all left (2xQuechua Pop up tents, 2xboxes of wine, camping stove, packets of biscuits, air bed.....ect)

[shakyjane]

trying not too sound self rightous

YOUR ALL MASSIVE C*NTS !!!

Obviously