r/Wellthatsucks • u/mattloaf666 • 10h ago

Reading festival 2026

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u/PublicProperty1805 10h ago

There should be a deposit attached to ticket price and when you scan out if you aren't carrying tent with you you don't get deposit back.

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u/Cosimo_Zaretti 9h ago

Cleaning the site is costed in to the the ticket price. Shame the people who didn't trash the joint also pay it.

If you could claim a deposit for taking your tent, people would just toss it once they were out the gate.

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u/jimmycarr1 8h ago

At Boomtown you pay an eco bond of £10 and if you give them a bag full of trash or recycling at the end of the festival you get it back.

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u/Aiken_Drumn 7h ago

It's £20.

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u/jimmycarr1 1h ago

Been a while since I've been but happy to see they increased it. A lot of people do make mess and a lot of people were leaving without claiming it, so at least this way they get more money to support the cleanup operations.

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u/Admirable-Setting261 6h ago

This is the way. We should do the same for homeless people

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u/Toutatous 6h ago

The problem is that people have sometimes a different logic. If they see "cleaning fee"on their ticket, they care even less. Someone is paid to do it, so why would I bother doing anything?!?