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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
229 u/fidgeter 10h ago People struggling to get by aren’t going to these festivals and setting up tents. They can’t afford it. -20 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/ 5 u/Njorls_Saga 9h ago Not in the UK. They focus on trying to rehouse homeless, not keep them sleeping rough. Many of the tents are damaged/soiled and not reusable. The vast majority end up in landfills. -3 u/QuirkyImage 9h ago https://rva.org.uk/article/calling-fellow-volunteers-for-other-charities-or-not-for-profits-reading-festival-salvage/ 2 u/Njorls_Saga 9h ago https://www.aiforg.com/take-your-tent-home “Each year, an estimated 250,000 tents are left at music festivals across the UK, of which the majority are taken to landfill.”
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People struggling to get by aren’t going to these festivals and setting up tents. They can’t afford it.
-20 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/ 5 u/Njorls_Saga 9h ago Not in the UK. They focus on trying to rehouse homeless, not keep them sleeping rough. Many of the tents are damaged/soiled and not reusable. The vast majority end up in landfills. -3 u/QuirkyImage 9h ago https://rva.org.uk/article/calling-fellow-volunteers-for-other-charities-or-not-for-profits-reading-festival-salvage/ 2 u/Njorls_Saga 9h ago https://www.aiforg.com/take-your-tent-home “Each year, an estimated 250,000 tents are left at music festivals across the UK, of which the majority are taken to landfill.”
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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/
5 u/Njorls_Saga 9h ago Not in the UK. They focus on trying to rehouse homeless, not keep them sleeping rough. Many of the tents are damaged/soiled and not reusable. The vast majority end up in landfills. -3 u/QuirkyImage 9h ago https://rva.org.uk/article/calling-fellow-volunteers-for-other-charities-or-not-for-profits-reading-festival-salvage/ 2 u/Njorls_Saga 9h ago https://www.aiforg.com/take-your-tent-home “Each year, an estimated 250,000 tents are left at music festivals across the UK, of which the majority are taken to landfill.”
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Not in the UK. They focus on trying to rehouse homeless, not keep them sleeping rough. Many of the tents are damaged/soiled and not reusable. The vast majority end up in landfills.
-3 u/QuirkyImage 9h ago https://rva.org.uk/article/calling-fellow-volunteers-for-other-charities-or-not-for-profits-reading-festival-salvage/ 2 u/Njorls_Saga 9h ago https://www.aiforg.com/take-your-tent-home “Each year, an estimated 250,000 tents are left at music festivals across the UK, of which the majority are taken to landfill.”
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2 u/Njorls_Saga 9h ago https://www.aiforg.com/take-your-tent-home “Each year, an estimated 250,000 tents are left at music festivals across the UK, of which the majority are taken to landfill.”
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https://www.aiforg.com/take-your-tent-home
“Each year, an estimated 250,000 tents are left at music festivals across the UK, of which the majority are taken to landfill.”
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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