Just picked this up off another forum. I don't normally post much non cruiser related stuff but this something that caught my eye. The guy in the film says it's not what is meant by apocalyptic. Maybe not, but it's what one might look like.
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Glasto aftermath
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That's what my garden looked like after my daughters wedding. Overturned tables and chairs as well. I went out to survey the damage and noticed the garage doors being forced open from the inside. At 1.00 a.m. I had locked a guest in overnight who had collapsed in there
I can understand why people have left muddy things behind. But this attitude that it's not my problem it's somebody else's really annoys me.
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I was accused after the recent brexit vote of being “a baby boomer who’d sold our future” by someone in their 20s. Didn’t bother to ask me how I voted, and when pressed admitted that they “couldn’t be arsed” to vote. Maybe they might be in for a rather nasty wake up call before too long.
As a camper, I just couldn't face leaving behind any kit. If I had to, I'd get one of those £25 pop ups. But look at some of the gear that got left. There were some very expensive tents. And the mud and filth...
Hard to keep the mud out I know, but it just looked like people hadn't even tried. I did see a programme about the sorting that they do and the fantastic use all the wellies and stuff gets put to so there is a benefit at the end of it all.
Hard to keep the mud out I know, but it just looked like people hadn't even tried. I did see a programme about the sorting that they do and the fantastic use all the wellies and stuff gets put to so there is a benefit at the end of it all.
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Is it fair to judge people on the aftermath when the whole 35 million quid selling point of the festival is a few days of wild abandon in a muddy field . The gear left behind is not really owned by anybody , a bunch of students just pool their money to buy a bed for a few days , the bigger the tent the more they can get in and the less they have to pay .
We took our grandson to this place last year http://metro.co.uk/2015/05/26/super...ilthy-toilets-and-shoddy-look-alikes-5216239/ 13000 visitors and i noticed there that people will use bins if bins are provided .
Of course the bins were soon buried under a growing mountain of rubbish which was blown around all over the place and by the end of the day people just dropped their rubbish where they stood .
We took our grandson to this place last year http://metro.co.uk/2015/05/26/super...ilthy-toilets-and-shoddy-look-alikes-5216239/ 13000 visitors and i noticed there that people will use bins if bins are provided .
Of course the bins were soon buried under a growing mountain of rubbish which was blown around all over the place and by the end of the day people just dropped their rubbish where they stood .
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The evidence of the disposable age, I'm ashamed to admit.
At least someone will benefit from that abandoned kit, but the concept really goes against the grain for me.
At least someone will benefit from that abandoned kit, but the concept really goes against the grain for me.
I wasn't really criticising anyone here. I just found it rather sad. It did look like a refugee camp where everyone had just been herded off into the wood leaving everything behind. You just don't usually come across a scene like this unless it's associated with some sort of atrocity. And yet that couldn't be further from the truth actually. People had a fantastic time. Just a bit of a juxtaposition.
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I didn’t really mean to criticise either, but even one of my sons (he’s a musician, not exactly noted for tidiness) couldn’t believe the amount of wastage after being at Glastonbury a few years ago. Perhaps part of it is the cheapness of things these days, I can remember saving up for my Vango tent and it served me well for many years (including being the only tent left standing after a gale up in the High Atlas). As has been said, we do live in a throwaway society now…….my wife wishes I’d join .
My comment wasn't so much a personal criticism, but one of the times we live in, where resources are wasted simply because we can't be bothered to pick them up.
But in this case, not so much wasted if the organisers sort stuff out and put it to good use.
There's a massive drive for fuel economy and "carbon footprint" based taxation (because the authorities can justify it) but the real wastage such as this, goes unmentioned.
Packaging is my biggest gripe, it's 100% environmentally damaging and nobody gives a sh!t. One tiny law could insist on 5 or even 10 year bio degradation, for the price of less that 1p on a (plastic) bottle of pop, and no more plastic in the countryside.
The UK is pretty well organized I must admit, there's very little wholesale littering, but here plastic is commonplace in the countryside and on the mountains, and the rivers are clogged with bottles and plastic bags. :-(
But in this case, not so much wasted if the organisers sort stuff out and put it to good use.
There's a massive drive for fuel economy and "carbon footprint" based taxation (because the authorities can justify it) but the real wastage such as this, goes unmentioned.
Packaging is my biggest gripe, it's 100% environmentally damaging and nobody gives a sh!t. One tiny law could insist on 5 or even 10 year bio degradation, for the price of less that 1p on a (plastic) bottle of pop, and no more plastic in the countryside.
The UK is pretty well organized I must admit, there's very little wholesale littering, but here plastic is commonplace in the countryside and on the mountains, and the rivers are clogged with bottles and plastic bags. :-(
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I worked at Glastonbury untill the mid 90s & even then the stuff left behind was mind boggling .one year someone had bought a dozen second hand caravans - old but tidy ones - & was renting them out at eye watering rates to media folk , c list celebs & generally anyone with wedge.after the festival they were free to anyone who had a towbar!
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Haha yeah & a gallon of jeys fluid! The waste & excess at Glastonbury is no different to what I've seen in the construction industry & the excess in film & tv I've witnessed have to be seem to be believed.
I can second that for construction and can imagine the TV film stuff. I once saw about 10 lengths of 9" X 3" joist timber on a skip, brand new. Must've been the wrong length. It is criminal, though I believe it gets sorted through nowadays.
I know that theres a load of charities that go and take all the tents and equiptment down and then send it out as emergency shelter for when theres disasters like earthquakes and flooding so not all that wasteful in the end
