No, sorry I should have clarified, I spoke to him at a seance last night and he said people should take their crap with them after a festival.
I wasn't talking about your dad, but the dad on a famous 1980s British TV ad.
And I read your post clearly. To be serious, yes I know people clear them up and as someone who was a clear up volunteer at Glastonbury many years ago, it was a nice way to get free entry. However, it doesn't make it right. Festivals spend 1000s and 1000s sorting this stuff out and it just gives people a sense that it's OK to do, when it should be bare minimum to clear up when you've been somewhere!
Obviously it's not right, but the argument is that it's not a big deal, which it isn't. I worked clean up at Leeds fest like 10 years ago when I was a broke student, saw stuff that scarred me in those tents, but I found lots of cool shit ( like a ps vita that I still have today). Had the tents not been there I'd have just been cleaning up pissy cups.
The point is they're not disposable items! Why can't people be adults! We're turning into a disposable society, dumping more shit into landfill. If people can't pack up a sodding tent and take it home to use again, they don't deserve to go to festivals. Harsh I know, only my opinion.
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u/simsyboy 9h ago
Yeah, this is giving 'my dad says it gives people jobs'. Grow up.