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.

@michiel @kravietz 20 years ago we still totally did this at Leeds / Reading. the traditional thing was to set them on fire as you left, but there was a, uh, health and safety intervention.

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Oh I also totally was getting pissed on festivals 20 years ago but then we'd clean the puke from the tents and carefully pack them and take them home as they were too expensive as compared to Eastern European salaries :)

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