The environmental cost of abandoning your tent at a music festival
Published Date: 7/11/2019
Source: phys.org
After years of depressing images of huge fields strewn with abandoned tents and rubbish in the aftermath of music festivals, it was heartening to hear Glastonbury Festival organisers claim that 99% of festival-goers' tents were picked up after the festival. For a festival of 200,000 people this is a huge achievement. But really it should be normal. Hopefully this bodes well for future years, because the Association of Independent Festivals estimates that a quarter of a million so called "single-use" tents are abandoned at music festivals across the UK each year.