what do you think about recycling and the environment at Reading Festival

[bondom]

It would be REALLY appreciated if you could answer these questions!!! Thanks!

1. In your opinion, is the environment something that should be considered at the Reading festival?

2. How do you travel to the site?

3. Do you actively try to recycle at the festival?

4. What recycling/environmental awareness techniques do you notice at the Reading festival?

5. What recycling/environmental awareness techniques would you like to see at Reading Festival?

6. What could be done to encourage you to recycle (or recycle more) at the Reading festival?

Edited April 28, 2009 by bondom

[Joshuwarr]

1. Yes, most definitely. Especially considering the potential amount off mess everyone causes.

2. Usually by car but train this year to be more green and less hassle.

3. I don't, no. Its nowhere near promoted enough. If I saw a recycling bin I'd happily use one.

4. I don't really notice any other than the initiatives to pick up cans and donate your tent to charity.

5. I'd like to see more recycling points for cardboard and such.

6. Well some f**king recycling bins that are easily findable would give me and most people a kick up the arse.

[KylieB]

1. It should be, but I dont think it is enough

2. Travel by car. A big group of us go and we try squeeze in the least amount of cars possible!

3. Try to. We put all the cans in the clear plastic bags but they always end up with the 'normal' rubbish as there is nowhere else to put them.

4. Not alot. Yeah they give out recycling bags but dont tell us what to do with them when full. Tent drop off is good but I think if people are going to leave there tent on site, its because they dont want to take it down, fold it up and then carry it back. To drop it off it has to be back in its bag. People will still just leave there tent's up and not hand in.

5. Little things like more bins! Sounds silly but poeple are lazy if there is not a bin near them then they will chuck it on the floor. Trying to find a bin in the campsite is almost impossible. More recycling points would be good too.

6. I agree with above. Most people WANT to recycle, if you give them the facilities to do it, then they will.

[Ashaz42]

1. In your opinion, is the environment something that should be considered at the Reading festival?

Yeah, but the problem is, nobody will abide to this. They have a few incentives to keep people recycling cans and the like, but not enough people do. The place is ALWAYS a warzone after the festival for months.

2. How do you travel to the site?

I get a train then walk. I live 15 minutes away from Reading.

3. Do you actively try to recycle at the festival?

Only filling binbags every now and then for a beer.

4. What recycling/environmental awareness techniques do you notice at the Reading festival?

Cup colleting for 10p each, fill a binbag and get a beer. That's about it.

5. What recycling/environmental awareness techniques would you like to see at Reading Festival?

More bins, some more Glastonbury-esque recycling campaign.

6. What could be done to encourage you to recycle (or recycle more) at the Reading festival?

See above.

[emmacollege]

1. Depends if there are recylcing sites around the camp site, but with all the cars still about on the roads then no, but its my first time so no idea what it was like last year.

2. By train

3. n/a

4. n/a

5. recyle bottles and cans, re usable glasses, recyle loo roll

6. easy to display signs

[goodoldfashionedmosher]

It would be REALLY appreciated if you could answer these questions!!! Thanks!

1. In your opinion, is the environment something that should be considered at the Reading festival?

2. How do you travel to the site?

3. Do you actively try to recycle at the festival?

4. What recycling/environmental awareness techniques do you notice at the Reading festival?

5. What recycling/environmental awareness techniques would you like to see at Reading Festival?

6. What could be done to encourage you to recycle (or recycle more) at the Reading festival?

[willdev]

It would be REALLY appreciated if you could answer these questions!!! Thanks!

1. In your opinion, is the environment something that should be considered at the Reading festival?

2. How do you travel to the site?

3. Do you actively try to recycle at the festival?

4. What recycling/environmental awareness techniques do you notice at the Reading festival?

5. What recycling/environmental awareness techniques would you like to see at Reading Festival?

6. What could be done to encourage you to recycle (or recycle more) at the Reading festival?

[dakyras]

It would be REALLY appreciated if you could answer these questions!!! Thanks!

1. Yes

2. Train

3. I try more to reduce my impact by not bringing as much non-biodegradable crap as I can

4. Pretty sure the bins in the middle of the paths are marked for different waste, but that's a terrible idea

5. Ban everything

6. Give me some recycle bags.

[beLIEveR]

1. Certainly, but it's got to be done at an organisational level. It's all very well hoping that people's good nature and sense of environmental responsibility will shine through, but this simply does not happen.

2. Train. I'm aware that coach in theory is the most carbon friendly way of travelling. However, I have to travel by train from Watford to Victoria if I want to get a coach. Paddington is closer than Victoria, and the train from Paddington to Reading is always packed, making it a reasonably environmentally friendly method.

3. I actively recycle my cans, tins and plastic drinks bottles. I only use plastic drinks bottles because Reading Festival's arena policy forces me to do so (I'm not allowed to bring a re-usable flask, which would be the environmentally friendly method). The only thing I actually bin is the packaging for my economy noodles, which cannot currently be recycled.

4. The cup policy is a good idea. I make good use of the can recycling policy, but I don't think it's generous enough to get the sort of participation it could easily generate. I like the increased promotion of the tent recycling scheme that I saw last year.

5. Ban all plastics in the arena, including water and soft drink bottles. Paper cups of water should be sold for 10p, which you get back if you return the cup. As I said before, the real solution is to use less plastic in the first place, not boast about how many tonnes of it you've collected through green initiatives. I believe the money saved on not needing to recycle plastic would nearly cover the loss in revenue from not selling bottled drinks, and in any case this would hurt the traders, rather than FR themselves.

6. N/A, short of shitting into the compost. Everything I use that can be recycled does get recycled. My sole wasteful luxury is the thin packaging on smart price noodles, which in any case are more environmentally friendly than Pot Noodle due to they way they're packaged.