DW: Around 100,000 people attended Reading Festival in the UK last weekend. This is what they left behind.
Yes, the tents were apparently also abandoned as they can be bought cheap and nobody cares. All that goes to landfill or gets burned.
@kravietz Twenty years ago, a tent was an expensive thing. Tents would have patches where tears and rips had been repaired after years of use. Now they're a single-use item, and then they move on as clean biomass.
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That's the problem — it's carbon fiber, plastic and metal, none of which decomposes, and burns dirty.
@kravietz I'm a bit cynical about 'clean biomass' even under the best of circumstances :)