r/Wellthatsucks • u/mattloaf666 • 9h ago

Reading festival 2026

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u/MyLifeBeTenshi 5h ago

The best "solution" I've encountering at most festivals in Germany is to charge a "trash deposit" with the ticket, and refund it if you brought a full trash bag to a trash point. Deichbrand was clean AF this year after people left

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u/Shamanjoe 2h ago

That sounds like an awesome idea.

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u/Demoliri 2h ago

They do this at Summer Breeze and Party San, and last time I went to Metaldays in Tolmin (in 2019 I think?) they also did this. It definitely helps to a degree, but it has to be enforced and the deposit has to be meaningful.

For example, in Metaldays the deposit was only €5 and they accepted the deposit bags when a single empty can of beer was in them. That festival was moderately clean, but I don't think that the deposit bag had anything to do with that as it was just as clean before they introduced it.

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u/MarketingSad5312 58m ago

Exactly. The idea is good, but the enforcement is everything. Otherwise people just treat the deposit as another small festival expense

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u/dikicker 27m ago

Ah, the Aldi shopping cart method, works like a charm