Tons of rubbish left after Electric Picnic

whisky_galore · 04-09-2018 05:51PM #1

Thought EP was the preserve of tree hugging bearded carbon neutral vegan hipsters. Apparently not.

https://www.breakingnews.ie/discover/watch-bulldozers-remove-hundreds-of-tonnes-of-waste-left-over-at-this-years-electric-picnic-866661.html

Under His Eye · 04-09-2018 05:54PM

It is a great place to score barely used tents. People leave them behind all the time.

Zebra3 · 04-09-2018 05:55PM

Let's call these people what they are.

Scumbags.

freshpopcorn · 04-09-2018 05:57PM

People buy tents and sleeping bags at a low price.
They simply can't be bothered packing everything up and having them take up space at home.
I know at the Indepedience festival some years the local scouts used collect and donate as much of the left overs to charity.

NIMAN · 04-09-2018 06:02PM

We live in a disposable world.

Same hipsters who left these behind will be out campaigning for re-useable coffee cups and less plastic choking dolphins soon.

Hypocrites

kneemos · 04-09-2018 06:05PM

The hippiest of all the hippy festivals.

https://www.google.ie/search?q=glastonbury+clean+up&oq=Glastonbury&aqs=chrome.3.69i57j0j69i60j69i59j69i60j0.5063j0j4&client=ms-android-huawei&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#imgrc=AFGaBs6kkcfENM:

Hector Bellend · 04-09-2018 06:08PM

Dirty f*ckers

Amirani · 04-09-2018 06:11PM

EP isn't a "hipster" festival anymore, and hasn't been for a while. It's not dissimilar to how Oxegen ended up.

Atlantic Dawn · 04-09-2018 06:12PM

Should be a camp site deposit of €50, you get it back when your allocated tent spot is clear when you are leaving.

pleas advice · 04-09-2018 06:13PM

Any cans?

ToddyDoody · 04-09-2018 06:13PM

Zebra3 wrote: »

Let's call these people what they are.

Scumbags.

Or, kids?

CinemaGuy45 · 04-09-2018 06:14PM

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Should be a camp site deposit of €50, you get it back when your allocated tent spot is clear when you are leaving.

Yes, they would throw their rubbish into another spot.

pleas advice · 04-09-2018 06:14PM

Amirani wrote: »

EP isn't a "hipster" festival anymore, and hasn't been for a while. It's not dissimilar to how Oxegen ended up.

Careful now...

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 04-09-2018 06:15PM

Times like this that make you realise that the "leave no trace" policy that Burning Man adopts is a massively underappreciated idea.

04-09-2018 06:16PM

Many of these litterbugs genuinely think that they are helping charities by leaving all the camping gear behind. Because charities do take what is worth taking people convince themselves that it's a good thing to leave it all behind. "sure we're helping homeless people" is what they'd tell you

The reality is that very little is salvageable

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 04-09-2018 06:16PM

freshpopcorn wrote: »

People buy tents and sleeping bags at a low price.
They simply can't be bothered packing everything up and having them take up space at home.
I know at the Indepedience festival some years the local scouts used collect and donate as much of the left overs to charity.

The scouts went to EP and have said, on radio today, that very little of what was discarded was in any way useable.

It's a deplorable indictment of those who attended.

Star Bingo · 04-09-2018 06:16PM

whisky_galore wrote: »

Thought EP was the preserve of tree hugging bearded carbon neutral vegan hipsters.

All festivals become corporate deathburgers. Unless it’s an out n out crustfest in which case

Hector Bellend wrote: »

Dirty f*ckers

still applies

Kuva · 04-09-2018 06:17PM

Rice then moves on to the Jimi Hendrix campsite where he predicts that 30,000 tents were abandoned.

This doesn’t include the Janis Joplin and Andy Warhol sites, which he also filmed.

It is estimated that over 588 tonnes of waste, which includes beer cans, food wrappers, chairs, inflatable mattresses, clothing – including shoes and coats - goes into a landfill/incinerator after the Picnic.

Jaysus, organisers should be forced to clean it up properly....just a bunch of scumbags from Organisers to ticket buyer.

Edgware · 04-09-2018 06:18PM

Samir White Meadowlark wrote: »

The scouts went to EP and have said, on radio today, that very little of what was discarded was in any way useable.

It's a deplorable indictment of those who attended.

But they're the cool kids

Hector Bellend · 04-09-2018 06:18PM

They should have spent the whole weekend ridin'.

No time for littering. Even I used to get fanny at festival and I'm a mess.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 04-09-2018 06:18PM

Sleeper12 wrote: »

Many of these litterbugs genuinely think that they are helping charities by leaving all the camping gear behind. Because charities do take what is worth taking people convince themselves that it's a good thing to leave it all behind. "sure we're helping homeless people" is what they'd tell you

The reality is that very little is salvageable

I that case, pack the thing up and bring it in to their offices. Or at the very least, leave it at lost property.

Star Bingo · 04-09-2018 06:21PM

In my day you still pack up the canvas tent and lug it home for another day. No matter how piss sodden it was

SimonTemplar · 04-09-2018 06:21PM

In general though, I've noticed people caring less and less about litter. Usually, I'd mostly see scumbags and children littering. Over the past few months, I've seen a lot of professional adults just casually dropping a chocolate bar wrapper or plastic around cigarette packets on the ground. And O'Connell St, Dublin in the evening is absolutely filthy with litter.

It is one of my big pet peeves, mostly for the "I don't give a sh*t and can do whatever I want" attitude that littering is a symptom of.

freshpopcorn · 04-09-2018 06:22PM

Samir White Meadowlark wrote: »

The scouts went to EP and have said, on radio today, that very little of what was discarded was in any way useable.

It's a deplorable indictment of those who attended.

I know at the Indepedience festival they spent days after words searching through everything before they sent the bill dozers in.
They brought things home that were damp/etc or that might have needed a clean and sorted them out.

Hector Bellend · 04-09-2018 06:23PM

Sleeper12 wrote: »

Many of these litterbugs genuinely think that they are helping charities by leaving all the camping gear behind. Because charities do take what is worth taking people convince themselves that it's a good thing to leave it all behind. "sure we're helping homeless people" is what they'd tell you

The reality is that very little is salvageable

If your tent hasnt been covered in used johnny's, fanny juice and stale booze you may as well have brought your slippers and pyjamas with you.

Disgrace.

OldMrBrennan83 · 04-09-2018 06:24PM

You're always going to get stuff like that where there's a large group and no fixed facilities. Not really news.

NIMAN · 04-09-2018 06:25PM

SimonTemplar wrote: »

In general though, I've noticed people caring less and less about litter. Usually, I'd mostly see scumbags and children littering. Over the past few months, I've seen a lot of professional adults just casually dropping a chocolate bar wrapper or plastic around cigarette packets on the ground. And O'Connell St, Dublin in the evening is absolutely filthy with litter.

It is one of my big pet peeves, mostly for the "I don't give a sh*t and can do whatever I want" attitude that littering is a symptom of.

Most will also claim "sure aren't we keeping people in jobs, cleaning up after our filth".

Aye, thats right, you feckin numpty.

Pkiernan · 04-09-2018 06:25PM

These same smelly morons will be protesting Trump in November.

EP should be banned next year and every year until the organisers figure out a solution to these limousine leftie layabouts.

Gimme A Pound · 04-09-2018 06:32PM

Kuva wrote: »

Jaysus, organisers should be forced to clean it up properly....just a bunch of scumbags from Organisers to ticket buyer.

I think the people who left the stuff behind are scummier than the organisers in fairness.

As said, it's not an artsy festival anymore - although there's still an element of that, but it's mostly a pop festival for Instagram obsessed duckfaces. Its change of style correlates with this rubbish issue becoming a much bigger problem.

And since when are 18s and over "kids"? They are old enough to drink, drive, work full-time, move away to college, have sex... so they're old enough to take responsibility for themselves and clean up/bring home their stuff.

wotswattage · 04-09-2018 06:42PM

There are responsible people at Electric Picnic, the BYEco Camping section is left spotless after the festival. You just have to sign up for a pass and promise to be responsible. It's free and a pleasure to camp there.
No excuses for anyone else not to behave the same.

https://www.facebook.com/byecocamping/

The eco site on Monday morning 2017:
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The normal campsite Monday 2017:
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freshpopcorn · 04-09-2018 06:42PM

I actually know people who clean up sited after a festival.
The issue isn't the big stuff. Pick it up put it in a bin/skip and they've grabbers/gloves/etc.
The main issue is with glass and bottle tops.

Tons of rubbish left after Electric Picnic

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