Walking through post-festival camp full of abandoned gear feels like 'shopping'
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With campsite trash accounting for more than half of the rubbish accumulated at music festivals, there are calls for a "cultural shift" in the behaviour of those attending.

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.

            • CameronDev@programming.devEnglish
              2·
              vor 2 Tagen

              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.

      • Cypher@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        vor 3 Tagen

        I’ve had a dome tent for nearly a decade and it still works fine. It’s not my go to tent but it is easy to use.

        It probably cost $50 new.

        • faintwhenfree@lemmus.orgEnglish
          5·
          vor 3 Tagen

          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.

            • SaneMartigan@aussie.zoneEnglish
              2·
              vor 2 Tagen

              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.

              • stylusmobilus@aussie.zoneEnglish
                1·
                vor 2 Tagen

                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.

        • Salvo@aussie.zoneEnglish
          3·
          vor 3 Tagen

          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.

        • CameronDev@programming.devEnglish
          3·
          vor 3 Tagen

          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.

    • Insekticus@aussie.zoneEnglish
      18·
      vor 3 Tagen

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

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        15·
        vor 3 Tagen

        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.