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r/Wellthatsucks • u/mattloaf666 • 10h ago
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If you could afford to just throw away a tent like that after one or two nights use, you live a life of privilege
232 u/fidgeter 10h ago People struggling to get by aren’t going to these festivals and setting up tents. They can’t afford it. -19 u/QuirkyImage 10h ago edited 9h ago And a charity collects the tents and reuses them https://rva.org.uk/article/calling-fellow-volunteers-for-other-charities-or-not-for-profits-reading-festival-salvage/ 4 u/Watermelon407 10h ago This has been debunked countless times by the organizers. It gets landfilled by cleaning crews. -2 u/QuirkyImage 9h ago https://rva.org.uk/article/calling-fellow-volunteers-for-other-charities-or-not-for-profits-reading-festival-salvage/ 4 u/Watermelon407 9h ago And the organizers, like this post BEG organizations to actually come in and do that, but they don't. It makes the festivalers feel better to say that's what happens, but if you actually read it, they are pleading with orgs to come and do that. 0 u/QuirkyImage 9h ago It’s tidied by a company anyway they have to, but they do invite charities to take what’s salvageable have done for ages
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People struggling to get by aren’t going to these festivals and setting up tents. They can’t afford it.
-19 u/QuirkyImage 10h ago edited 9h ago And a charity collects the tents and reuses them https://rva.org.uk/article/calling-fellow-volunteers-for-other-charities-or-not-for-profits-reading-festival-salvage/ 4 u/Watermelon407 10h ago This has been debunked countless times by the organizers. It gets landfilled by cleaning crews. -2 u/QuirkyImage 9h ago https://rva.org.uk/article/calling-fellow-volunteers-for-other-charities-or-not-for-profits-reading-festival-salvage/ 4 u/Watermelon407 9h ago And the organizers, like this post BEG organizations to actually come in and do that, but they don't. It makes the festivalers feel better to say that's what happens, but if you actually read it, they are pleading with orgs to come and do that. 0 u/QuirkyImage 9h ago It’s tidied by a company anyway they have to, but they do invite charities to take what’s salvageable have done for ages
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And a charity collects the tents and reuses them
https://rva.org.uk/article/calling-fellow-volunteers-for-other-charities-or-not-for-profits-reading-festival-salvage/
4 u/Watermelon407 10h ago This has been debunked countless times by the organizers. It gets landfilled by cleaning crews. -2 u/QuirkyImage 9h ago https://rva.org.uk/article/calling-fellow-volunteers-for-other-charities-or-not-for-profits-reading-festival-salvage/ 4 u/Watermelon407 9h ago And the organizers, like this post BEG organizations to actually come in and do that, but they don't. It makes the festivalers feel better to say that's what happens, but if you actually read it, they are pleading with orgs to come and do that. 0 u/QuirkyImage 9h ago It’s tidied by a company anyway they have to, but they do invite charities to take what’s salvageable have done for ages
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This has been debunked countless times by the organizers. It gets landfilled by cleaning crews.
-2 u/QuirkyImage 9h ago https://rva.org.uk/article/calling-fellow-volunteers-for-other-charities-or-not-for-profits-reading-festival-salvage/ 4 u/Watermelon407 9h ago And the organizers, like this post BEG organizations to actually come in and do that, but they don't. It makes the festivalers feel better to say that's what happens, but if you actually read it, they are pleading with orgs to come and do that. 0 u/QuirkyImage 9h ago It’s tidied by a company anyway they have to, but they do invite charities to take what’s salvageable have done for ages
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4 u/Watermelon407 9h ago And the organizers, like this post BEG organizations to actually come in and do that, but they don't. It makes the festivalers feel better to say that's what happens, but if you actually read it, they are pleading with orgs to come and do that. 0 u/QuirkyImage 9h ago It’s tidied by a company anyway they have to, but they do invite charities to take what’s salvageable have done for ages
And the organizers, like this post BEG organizations to actually come in and do that, but they don't. It makes the festivalers feel better to say that's what happens, but if you actually read it, they are pleading with orgs to come and do that.
0 u/QuirkyImage 9h ago It’s tidied by a company anyway they have to, but they do invite charities to take what’s salvageable have done for ages
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It’s tidied by a company anyway they have to, but they do invite charities to take what’s salvageable have done for ages
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u/Son-of-Prophet 10h ago
If you could afford to just throw away a tent like that after one or two nights use, you live a life of privilege