04-06-2020, 09:34 PM
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Mind you, I went for a walk about on Spurn Head last Thursday and the litter bins had not been emptied for weeks so the rubbish was stacked up all around the overflowing bins, and some had even been distributed on the wind....Spurn is a place of natural beauty and attracts lots of visitors, especially in the nice weather, you would think that the councils would collect the rubbish before it gets spread far and wide, and makes the job of clearing it up ten times harder.
04-06-2020, 10:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Omah
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Well, you're wrong ..... 
Glastonbury's worse:
Even tents are abandoned .....
elites Omah?
Just goes to show eh!
Seems this behaviour is inherant in us brits rich or poor dont it?
Thanks for the pics BTW, they really prove a point?
What do you think Reg?
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04-06-2020, 11:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Donkeyman
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I thought glastonbury was only inhabited by our enlightenedelites Omah?
Just goes to show eh!
Seems this behaviour is inherant in us brits rich or poor dont it?
Thanks for the pics BTW, they really prove a point?
What do you think Reg?
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I also reckon they'll be adept at recycling.
05-06-2020, 12:43 AM
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Why do people leave the tents ?Clearly they have too much money.
Must have a lot to buy the tickets at these places .
Personaly going to these overcrowded festivals is my idea of hell too much humanity ! Now with the CV they may be a thing of the past .
05-06-2020, 01:02 AM
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Originally Posted by reg
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As so many tents are the same it proves the organisers earn a few quid out of selling tents.I also reckon they'll be adept at recycling.
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/whats...t-behind-56851
Sadly not everybody takes their gear away with them afterwards. The Glastonbury aftermath is well-documented. A sea of mud and litter, dotted with thousands of semi-collapsed tents and soggy camping equipment left behind on Monday morning by festivalgoers who just couldn't face packing down.
It costs organisers £780,000 to dispose of all the rubbish after the festival, money that won't go to Water Aid, Greenpeace or Oxfam.
So what happens to all the tents that are left behind?
In 2016 a Bristol-based charity called Aid Box Convoy collected tents from people leaving the site and picked up abandoned ones to send to refugees in Europe.
Some entrepreneurial types have even started renting abandoned tents back to festival goers.
Glastonbury resident Kieran Van Den Bosch looked out over the sea of abandoned tents in 2012 and saw an opportunity.
Mr Van Den Bosch salvages abandoned tents from festivals, cleans and repairs them and rents them out, pre-pitched, at other festivals to people who don't want the hassle of carrying a tent on and off site.
List of music festivals in the United Kingdom
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...United_Kingdom
05-06-2020, 04:30 AM
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HiWe are a nation of litter louts.
It is not just the Festivals or beaches which are suffering.
https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/...n-one-weekend/
Asbos do not work, neither do fines.
We need to learn from others.
What does work is lose of earnings and having to work to clear it up.
Get caught and you have a day off work or Benefits and dressed in orange picking it up.
Do not turn up and it is doubled every day you do not.
We can learn a lot from Singapore and Taiwan.
Poland is another example of how to do it.
05-06-2020, 05:37 AM
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Yet Poland still has a big littering problem on quite a large scale despite the laws."Littering is a common practice. Even the introduction of a new littering law has not solved the problem. Polish people litter a lot, and masses of dangerous waste goes into the environment. You can see bottles and drink cans almost everywhere - from roadside ditches to parks, forests to ponds and lakes. Their environmental impact may be greater than it seems" - notes Krzysztof Kolenda from the Institute of Environmental Biology of the University of Wrocław, who studies the impact of rubbish on fauna."
05-06-2020, 06:27 AM
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Originally Posted by reg
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Yet Poland still has a big littering problem on quite a large scale despite the laws."Littering is a common practice. Even the introduction of a new littering law has not solved the problem. Polish people litter a lot, and masses of dangerous waste goes into the environment. You can see bottles and drink cans almost everywhere - from roadside ditches to parks, forests to ponds and lakes. Their environmental impact may be greater than it seems" - notes Krzysztof Kolenda from the Institute of Environmental Biology of the University of Wrocław, who studies the impact of rubbish on fauna."
It is infinetly better than here.
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