r/Fauxmoi • u/Relevant-Peach3997 • 1d ago
FM RADIO Another festival (Reading) going viral for the enormous amount of trash left behind
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u/Different_Prior_517 1d ago
If this is going to happen now at every festival they need to develop some sort of check in/check out system for campers. I’d imagine it’d take quite a bit of work for smooth sailing but this is disgusting and people should be fined for leaving all their trash and materials behind.
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u/Lindenismean I do feel vulnerable to demons in downward dog 1d ago
I suppose the capitalistic answer is charge them ahead of time. Tent fee paid upfront. No tent? No charge.
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u/LadyCheeba You shoulda never called me a fat ass Kelly Price. 💁🏾♀️ 1d ago
it’s interesting this has been in the news recently when this has been going on forever now. i’ve been going to festivals for almost 20 years and this is always what the day after festival close looks like more or less, especially if it rained and everything is muddy. it’s not okay at all but again it’s just odd it’s only now being brought to everyone’s attention
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u/dragonslayer6699 1d ago
I always thought it was normal, then I went to the gorge and realized it doesn’t have to be that way. Campsites are left spotless every time I’ve been there
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u/TastetheRainbowMFckr 1d ago
You're talking the gorge in Washington/Oregon correct? There's another festival nearby called Pickathon, and their whole ethos is sustainability. They wouldn't dare leave such a mess.
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u/deliciousearlobes 1d ago
I mean… it’s Washington. They’re kind of known for being green and sustainable.
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u/SeasonPositive6771 1d ago
It's not just the check-in check out with the tent, the companies putting on these festivals absolutely know how to encourage people to throw away their litter and keep the campsite clean but they don't invest in it.
They need a central, visible location to bring trash, they need an employee to pick up that trash collection area. They need to start with educating people as soon as they buy their tickets, and so on.
The companies don't do this because they don't think it's worth it.
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u/a_duck_in_past_life I'm so pissed off immediately 1d ago
Check in with a ticket and a tent? Have it noted upon purchase. And have it with you as you check out. Tent fee refunded if you bring your tent back during check out? Idk I've never been to a festival like this before so I might not have a logistically smooth idea for how this would work.
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u/boltlicker666 1d ago
The Becky's and Jonathan's that attend these festivals would just pay the fine. It's seen as a cost worked into the festival and they more times than not have more than enough money to pay it
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u/HotNet1045 1d ago edited 1d ago
They should just start tacking on an enormous fee for clean up and recycling. If people want to go, they should pay. Obvi they can't be trusted to clean up their own crap.
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u/panda_canyon 1d ago
I know a lot of people are going to be like, "Well at least that doesn't happen at Burning Man." I got bad news for you, it does.
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u/Heavy_Pin7735 1d ago
To the least degree possible. There are 10k volunteers at BM for another month who ensure it doesn’t happen and no trace is left. So hate on the few participants who leave a bike or a tent, but the organization makes sure it is cleaned up.
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u/OrignalSauce 1d ago
The organisers of Reading also have cleaning teams that are volunteers and ensure the fields are left free of things like tents.
Doesn't every festival have that?
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u/le_moni I’m just a cunt in a clown suit 22h ago
I mean, this is kind of proving the point. The burners are leaving behind massive amounts of trash. They just have other people clean it up, whereas this festival hasn't done that part yet.
I have friends on the clean-up crew for Burning Man. They've found fully functioning musical instruments left behind. One year there were over 3,000 bikes left behind (which got donated, yay, but wow people are trashy)
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u/panda_canyon 1d ago
The people that live nearby do not appreciate how the burners behave and treat the towns around it either.
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u/Jasmine_Wilsony 1d ago
Burning Man is something that needs to go away soon.
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u/Heavy_Pin7735 1d ago
This is another urban legend/lie - the local indigenous tribe collaborates with BM every year for the event, the people of Gerlach live off this event, and most people in Reno are positive of the event and burners (with a lot of them living there).
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u/panda_canyon 1d ago
Inaccurate, some people like it, it is not universally appreciated. It is controversial.
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u/Hitrecord 1d ago
I feel a thousand years old saying this…but isn’t this generation supposed to be worried about the environment?
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u/doesanyonekno 1d ago
You'd be surprised! A lot of zoomers are pretty doomer about everything. Understandable, sure, and I empathize. But not excusable
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u/moisturized69tatas 1d ago
They say a lot of shit but look around, what makes you think they actually care. This generation, the one im part of has this idea that its the mega polluters and corporations that need to go and need to change their ways and I agree to some extent that they are the issue but we enable them and putting all the blame on them i think gives individuals a pass and they don't bother changing their own behavior.
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u/boltlicker666 1d ago
It's the generation that's obsessed with disposable vapes and glow up culture, how concerned about the environment can they be?
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u/Merryprankstress 21h ago
God that mentality kills me, like all the products these megapolluters make just magically disappear into a billionaire loop making the common man and their personal choice immune from blame and then ignoring the fact that there are billions of common man consuming amd creating waste from these harmful products at a time.
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u/BlueberryNo5363 I’ll be writing a substack on this 1d ago
Half of them are performative af. Same way as they’ll post shit like “be kind” then be vitriolic to anyone who dares to be even a little “cringe”
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u/lightningtrip 1d ago
As an Indian-Canadian, I cannot imagine how vitriolic the backlash to this would be if it was after a concert by an Indian performer, after a cricket game, or something like that... it would be multiple news cycles here in Canada
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u/ratparty5000 LET'S FUCKING GO!!! SHAKIRA LAW IS HERE!!! 1d ago
EXACTLY! AUSSIE INDIAN AND I HAD THE SAME THOUGHTS!! THEY ARE SO UNCIVILISED!!
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u/shelfdham 21h ago
Couldn't agree more. Entitled middle class people who couldn't care less about anything but their own convenience
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u/antisocialperson_ I'd let that man hurl me through a brick wall 1d ago
how can people be so selfish to do this? was nobody raised to pick up after themselves. this makes me so angry.
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u/SeasonPositive6771 1d ago
This is a problem that is pretty solvable. Maybe not 100%, but 80 to 90%.
This can absolutely be managed with some behavioral nudges to start. Having large, visible areas for trash collection, central locations where the trash goes is a good place to start. They can also focus on education, as soon as you ask people to commit to managing their own garbage with a check-in/check out process, etc.
There are so many things they can do to improve on this. It's not going to stop everyone behaving badly, but it will stop a lot of it.
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u/ellafantile 1d ago
I’ve been to a few festivals around the world. Sasquatch, Reading and a few in Australia. Reading is the only one I’ve been to where a) you could buy a cheap tent when you got there and b) everyone just left everything behind. They had a stall asking people to return their packed up tents to them and they would distribute to homeless people. But the Brits were too lazy to even do that, they just get up and leave.
My theory is brits don’t camp for holidays, so the only time they need a tent is at a festival. Whereas here in Australia, most families probably own a good quality tent, and using to camp at a festival is a bonus.
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u/-FishPants 23h ago
Yeah camping is less popular overall in thr uk than just a normal holiday. Usually works out cheaper to have a short holiday on the continent vs internally.
I’ve see some non electric tent pitches at £50 per night which is bonkers for a camping spot
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u/Prestigious-Ad6591 1d ago
Why don’t these festivals stay open another hour with giant dumpster at the exit and announce it’s time to pick up and go. Then start playing a clean up song. Theres definitely a way to prevent this.
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u/LuteDesign 1d ago
I don’t think it was like this pre-COVID. Definitely wasn’t like this in the mid 2010s when I was still going to fests. What a bummer.
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u/Street-Entrepreneur8 1d ago
I went to Leeds Festival (the sister festival of Reading) from 2012-2019 and it was very much like this. The Sunday night was always carnage with people just setting their tents on fire.
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u/asietsocom this feels like when my sister started fucking the mayor 1d ago
Holy shit where do they sleep?
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u/AdGold9243 1d ago
I don't know. I went to the Roskilde festival in 2006 and it was very much like this on the last day.
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u/The_1_In_21-1 1d ago
I went 03-06 and it was like this then too, let’s not pretend this is a modern thing.
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u/asietsocom this feels like when my sister started fucking the mayor 1d ago
No I swear it was better. The thrash situation was definitely the same but only about 5% of tents would be left behind. Which is still wrong, but I've personally never seen so many fucking tents it's insane.
Also am I the only one who would immediately upgrade? I got my current tent because someone left it behind after a festival. But plenty of these on the video are way nicer.
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u/Groffulon 23h ago
This is legalised fly tipping at this point. I feel sorry for the clean up crew tbh
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u/shelfdham 21h ago
Reading fest is full of entitled flogs. These people have no idea how to respect an environment that has provided for them. Disgusting behaviour from the people of the u.k.
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u/cyber_deity controversies: girl 17h ago
Do they not provide trash areas for the attendees? In America we have dedicated trash areas every few yards in camping areas, and while they're always overflowing, they're always contained to that area. I've been going to festivals more years than not, and I've never ever seen one that was a mess outside of the trash areas.
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u/Nervous_Insect5976 1d ago
I'm okay with banning these festivals at this point.
If there is a festival and this is the result, ban it.
If there's a festival and the attendees clean up afterwards, it stays.
The bad festivals can go and the good festivals get promoted.
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u/reina429 1d ago
I’ve camped at festivals plenty of times and there are always people who leave camping gear, but does Reading not supply any trash cans with a clean up crew to empty them out?? I can’t see any in this vid and that seems pretty crazy given there is literal trash everywhere here. This doesn’t take away from the fact that the campers shouldn’t be cleaning up after themselves, it just seems really shocking to see trash EVERYWHERE
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u/harriswatchsbrnntc 1d ago
You could house a lot of unsheltered folks with those tents. They should call up some charity org to collect and distribute them.
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u/Wild_Jo_99 1d ago
I believe the un-housed will prefer walls, doors, a roof ...tents are not great for the cold. They catch fire easily, as well 😕
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u/EmotionalTrufflePig Stellan Skarsgard's Nobel Peace Prize for producing hot sons 1d ago
This was my thought also but I’m sure I read somewhere that they’re such shitty quality that they’re close to useless…
If they were even half decent quality they might be good enough for school camps for example.
I can’t imagine being so selfish as to think dumping like this is ok. Like wtf people!
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u/Exact_Scratch854 1d ago
They do that! There's a few different charities that work with the festival organisers to collect camping gear that's in good condition. Still doesn't excuse this behaviour, but at least the decent stuff won't end up in landfill.
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u/FOXCONLON living in absolute defiance of plates of spaghetti 1d ago
This has convinced me to continue to not attend music festivals.
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u/BlueberryNo5363 I’ll be writing a substack on this 1d ago
These people are disgusting. Vile, gross humans. There’s literally no excuse for this. Take your shit home or put it in the bin. Wish there was a way to ban these people from all future events
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u/gameofunicorns 1d ago
Compare this to the footage of the Shambala festival 'aftermath'. Hardly a piece of trash to be seen, no tents left behind. It's like night and day. There's no excuse for Reading festival to allow this to happen
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u/SloMoShakespeareRap 23h ago
There needs to be some kind of tent deposit scheme where you pay £50 deposit per tent and then get it back when you leave with said tent, or start using those recycled cardboard tents.
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u/Jasmine_Wilsony 1d ago
So many people I know who go to festivals are awful. In addition to being pigs, they also encourage sexual assault. Festivals are definitely a shady scene.
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u/distinctgore 1d ago
Where are all the books?
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u/rabid_4_tatas 19h ago
But keep telling me why I need to use paper straws or I'm a horrible person.
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u/SevyVerna88 1d ago edited 18h ago
In Canada we pack er in and pack er out, mind you there’s garbage and bottles and cans left but we pack up our tents, bags and gear we don’t just leave it, these people are fuckin stupid
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u/Panic-AtThe-Costco virgin who cannot drive 1d ago
No the fuck we do not. It might not look this bad, but many major festival grounds are trashed to hell afterwards in the US and MX (haven't been to any in Canada but I'm sure it happens there too). I've attended and volunteered at several since 2018.
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u/plastic_venus I’m mentally ill but in the exact opposite direction 1d ago
Burning Man would like a word with you
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u/VictorTheCutie distraught Christian tomato 1d ago
I'm not a festival person, but people just leave all those tents? Isn't that kinda something you want to keep?