Tons of rubbish left after Electric Picnic

Star Bingo · 04-09-2018 06:43PM

Not entirely innocent myself on one occasion I left behind a veritable landfill’s worth of Patagonia fleeces

I fleeced that shop blind....

SteM · 04-09-2018 06:46PM

Irish people are dirty ****ers, simple as that. Just look at the way they leave beaches, beauty spots etc after good weather. We'll justify it any way we can.

Hector Bellend · 04-09-2018 06:48PM

SteM wrote: »

Irish people are dirty ****ers, simple as that. Just look at the way they leave beaches, beauty spots etc after good weather. We'll justify it any way we can.

I was walking down O'Connell st in Dublin yesterday and the state of the street just proves your point.

Teyla Emmagan · 04-09-2018 06:54PM

SteM wrote:

Irish people are dirty ****ers, simple as that. Just look at the way they leave beaches, beauty spots etc after good weather. We'll justify it any way we can.

We are, but we are not alone. It is as bad after festivals in the UK. They should weigh you and your gear on the way in and out and fine you if you are going home lighthanded.

Collie D · 04-09-2018 06:55PM

Pkiernan wrote: »

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.

You're like a cartoon or something. Give it a rest, ffs!

pawdee · 04-09-2018 06:55PM

Snowflakes clean up after themselves? You must be joking. Most of the f****ers wouldn't work to warm themselves.

kneemos · 04-09-2018 07:00PM

pawdee wrote: »

Snowflakes clean up after themselves? You must be joking. Most of the f****ers wouldn't work to warm themselves.

Who reared these "snowflakes"?

Collie D · 04-09-2018 07:00PM

wotswattage wrote: »

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:

The normal campsite Monday 2017:

That's some difference. Years since I was at a festival and can't remember campsites being in that state at the end. But more than likely I was just half asleep and wanting to get home to a shower and a bed.

I think it's a snowball effect. If a number of people just dump their crap anywhere others who may not normally be litterbugs will think "Ah, the place is already in bits" and do the same. Giuliani's "broken window" theory?

ToddyDoody · 04-09-2018 07:06PM

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

We are, but we are not alone. It is as bad after festivals in the UK. They should weigh you and your gear on the way in and out and fine you if you are going home lighthanded.

I like this. Solutions rather than just complaining.

Your Face · 04-09-2018 07:12PM

The most pressing question is how do we blame the Muslims?

Dakota Dan · 04-09-2018 07:22PM

ToddyDoody wrote: »

Or, kids?

Goats don’t leave tents and rubbishy behind them.

Twenty Grand · 04-09-2018 07:25PM

Collie D wrote: »

That's some difference. Years since I was at a festival and can't remember campsites being in that state at the end. But more than likely I was just half asleep and wanting to get home to a shower and a bed.

I think it's a snowball effect. If a number of people just dump their crap anywhere others who may not normally be litterbugs will think "Ah, the place is already in bits" and do the same. Giuliani's "broken window" theory?

When you wake up freezing cold with the cumulative effects of 4 nights sleeping on the ground, an entire weekend on the beer and living on top of 20,000 other people, the last thing you want to do is pack up your p*ss soaked, filthy tent, clean up your gear and lug it 2 miles back to the car park through muck and sh*te.

That's the reality really. You can argue whatever way you want, but most people don't give a sh*te.

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

They should weigh you and your gear on the way in and out and fine you if you are going home lighthanded.

You'd be a hell of a lot lighter after drinking your two slabs of cans.

ToddyDoody wrote: »

I like this. Solutions rather than just complaining.

The solution is fairly straightforward. When you buy a camping ticket, it includes your tent, a decent size 4 berth tent you can stand up in. The tent is already setup when you arrive. THey're laid out nice and neatly, with easy access to bins and toilet. You get a few bin bags with the tent and throw all your crap into them, and they're collected each morning. If your tent is clean on Monday morning you get part of the fee back.

When you leave, the tents are hosed down and dismantled, ready for next year.

What we have at the moment is a pile of cheap useless tents people don't care about abandoning, and bins that are only accessible through an assault course of tent wires. People will clean up if you give them the means, but if the path of least resistance is dumping, then people will take it.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 04-09-2018 07:28PM

ToddyDoody wrote: »

Or, kids?

Harsh. Kids can be trained to be tidy.

Sal Butamol · 04-09-2018 07:29PM

ToddyDoody wrote: »

Or, kids?

Scumbag kids so. Happy?

Dakota Dan · 04-09-2018 07:32PM

Hector Bellend wrote: »

I was walking down O'Connell st in Dublin yesterday and the state of the street just proves your point.

So because idiots leave rubbish on Irish beaches and rubbish down O’ Connell st it means all Irish people are litter bugs? I must be the odd one out then as I never throw litter anywhere other than in a litter bin.

Sal Butamol · 04-09-2018 07:34PM

Dakota Dan wrote: »

So because idiots leave rubbish on Irish beaches and rubbish down O’ Connell st it means all Irish people are litter bugs? I must be the odd one out then as I never throw litter anywhere other than a litter bin.

Litter is a huge problem in Ireland. It's not a minority causing the problem

RobbingBandit · 04-09-2018 07:35PM

Entitled hipsters love their irony

whisky_galore · 04-09-2018 07:39PM

Twenty Grand wrote: »

When you wake up freezing cold with the cumulative effects of 4 nights sleeping on the ground, an entire weekend on the beer and living on top of 20,000 other people, the last thing you want to do is pack up your p*ss soaked, filthy tent, clean up your gear and lug it 2 miles back to the car park through muck and sh*te.

That's the reality really. You can argue whatever way you want, but most people don't give a sh*te.

You'd be a hell of a lot lighter after drinking your two slabs of cans.

The solution is fairly straightforward. When you buy a camping ticket, it includes your tent, a decent size 4 berth tent you can stand up in. The tent is already setup when you arrive. THey're laid out nice and neatly, with easy access to bins and toilet. You get a few bin bags with the tent and throw all your crap into them, and they're collected each morning. If your tent is clean on Monday morning you get part of the fee back.

When you leave, the tents are hosed down and dismantled, ready for next year.

What we have at the moment is a pile of cheap useless tents people don't care about abandoning, and bins that are only accessible through an assault course of tent wires. People will clean up if you give them the means, but if the path of least resistance is dumping, then people will take it.

In a nutshell, people are lazy and want their rubbish picked up, and their arses wiped and everything done for them by lackeys.

Dravokivich · 04-09-2018 07:47PM

I've gone to festivals in England. Unfortunately the same thing happens there. A large amount of people just don't care for it.

If the sites were properly managed, it would be a lot better. But most of the time it's just people who volunteer for a weekend ticket themselves.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 04-09-2018 07:54PM

NIMAN wrote: »

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

I doubt anyone who is committed to being environmentally-friendly would leave that kind of rubbish behind. Electric Picnic isn’t really a hipster festival anymore. You don’t really know if the rubbish-leavers are hypocrites or not.

kneemos · 04-09-2018 08:05PM

AH has turned into a sewing circle.

All hope is lost I'm afraid.

Panthro · 04-09-2018 08:06PM

Boomtown fest take a tenner off ya when you buy the ticket. You can get it back if you fill one of their bags with rubbish.
Handy incentive to tidy up when you're flat broke and only dust in the wallet!

jobless · 04-09-2018 08:20PM

All of the campsites should be run like the eco campsite but the organisers won't do that... They'll pack as many in as the can into Hendrix and Warhol... They are increasing tickets by 2500 next year so it'll be worse if anything

Wrongway1985 · 04-09-2018 08:29PM

Been at a number of fests abroad with a much higher capacity and sometimes more days than E.P, never saw such amount of rubbish after weekend from the photos. Other festivals have great incentives to promote recycling and E.P. should clearly look into it.

Music "expert" on Matt Cooper this evening actually defended the carry on saying you can't expect people like zombies cleaning up after weekend instead of wanting to get home...gobsh1te noone is saying so however it would make sense that an empty cans go straight into a recycling sack once used, don't leave crap on your own doorstep you then won't have to clean anything when leaving common sense ffs.

Dial Hard · 04-09-2018 09:11PM

My philosphy on littering is exceedingly simple - if you brought it with you full then you can sure as sh*t take it home with you empty. Anything else is scumbaggery, pure and simple.

Wheeliebin30 · 04-09-2018 09:21PM

What’s that Simpson’s episode, can’t someone else do it?

Horrible self centered nation we have become.

For Forks Sake · 04-09-2018 09:42PM

Wheeliebin30 wrote: »

What’s that Simpson’s episode, can’t someone else do it?

Horrible self centered nation we have become.

Rothko · 04-09-2018 10:00PM

NIMAN wrote: »

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

No, they won't

freedominacup · 04-09-2018 10:20PM

kneemos wrote: »

Who reared these "snowflakes"?

The crowd who burned the tents at the end of Feile back in the early nineties. I remember the photos. One in particular of some dreadlocked crusty staggering, slightly hunched over, dreads blowing in the wind through the small plumes of smoke which was all that remained of most of the tents in the campsite. He's bound to have had some offspring in Stradbally last weekend.

ToddyDoody · 04-09-2018 10:23PM

I hope the farmers don't throw it over the ditch in this case.

Tons of rubbish left after Electric Picnic

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