Leave no Trace

[Billy Corgans hair]

Just been scrolling through twitter and seeing loads of Climate deniers posting a photo from a decade ago claiming it's this year. I was going to argue with them but I have the blues and I cba.

Does anyone have any 'leave no trace ' photos either good or bad

 

 

 

 

[Crazyfool01]

Signed up to worthy warrior … here’s my area near jp . Every one of those tents in my photos is going home . We just left before them 

Edited June 27, 2022 by crazyfool1

[willgooneday]

That is absolutely shameful. There needs to be some sort of fine for leaving stuff behind, god knows how you'd do it though. Not sure designated pitches would be feasible. Although its also an old pic. 

Edited June 27, 2022 by willgooneday

[prestonmike]

It seemed a lot cleaner this year, i noticed a lot more people keeping hold of their empty cans and taking them to the bins at the end of sets than in previous years, and when i left Pylon field, it looked like everyone around me had taken all their stuff with them, still plenty of people about when i left though so hopefully those who left after us also cleaned up their area

[Crazyfool01]

Yep lots cleaner and that  post is definately not this year … they will have to go some to beat 2019 though … especially with some of the lest respectful pandemic habits people have developed 

[Larraht]

Absolutely noticeably cleaner this year! I didn't find myself walking on cans or plastic bottles even around Pyramid. The recycling staff do such an amazing job but I noticed everyone seemed to be taking their things to bins more this year too. 

[tjfish]

Annoyingly I saw some people next to us had left a big tipi, it's so frustrating to see the laziness 😔

 

Having said that, it feels like it's the minority that are selfish enough to do this, which means we're heading in the right direction 

[Spindles]

Thanks to everyone for keeping the place clean, second best I've ever seen after 2019.

People took responsibility for their own litter on the whole, helped by bins being regularly emptied even if it felt like there were less than usual.

[LoraMaze]

Actually thought the campsites were a lot better than usual. I’ve camped in Oxlyers twice now and there was noticeably less rubbish everywhere.

[waynewdk]

I thought the camp areas looked much better this year than normal. I was in Park Home a lot of people had taken their tents when I had left, also I went looking for some food a hour after Pet Shop Boys, and remember thinking how clean the other stage was, there was litter pickers there mind 

Edited June 27, 2022 by waynewdk

[Dark Star]

2 hours ago, prestonmike said:

It seemed a lot cleaner this year, i noticed a lot more people keeping hold of their empty cans and taking them to the bins at the end of sets than in previous years, and when i left Pylon field, it looked like everyone around me had taken all their stuff with them, still plenty of people about when i left though so hopefully those who left after us also cleaned up their area

We were also camped in Pylon, and found it to be much tidier than some of the other fields during the festival, and being left very clean as people left. 

[waynewdk]

[gfa]

I was in Dairy and it seemed very clean - couldn’t see any abandoned tents. Some rubbish bags but they were left neatly. Some Tips were full on the way to the coach gate so it was understandable.

re crowd rubbish - so many bins were overflowing all over the site, they need to sort this out really

Edited June 27, 2022 by gfa

[dotdash79]

1 hour ago, tjfish said:

Annoyingly I saw some people next to us had left a big tipi, it's so frustrating to see the laziness 😔

Was that in paines ground? Think we was camped next to them

[willgooneday]

Maybe the myth that the tents go to the homeless has finally been killed off? Loads of people I've known down the years say they left tents at festivals so hobos can have them - while a minority of festivals do do this it's not really a practical solution for an event like Glasto.  

[Toilet Duck]

Was walking along the path through  Oxlyers on Sunday afternoon and made a point of looking in…looked like Lime Kiln, really clean for day 5 (not picking specifically on Oxlyers, but in the past it has been a right tip by the end of the festival). Message is definitely getting through. One thing I did notice though was lots of chairs in the recycling drops. They weren’t that readily available this year (and they were £20 for the crap ones that used to be around £7!…guess that’s what happens in a monopoly!)… If the festival held on to them and let people use them for free next year it would cut down on waste. A couple of recent festivals here did that this year and everyone that used one left it back at the end for them to be given out again next year (chairs aren’t allowed at the stages of any of the main festivals here, so just for campsite use). Seemed a rather sensible and useful approach. 

[Alvoram]

What was with all the cool boxes and bags left in the other field after PSBs?

Is that people drinking their last supplies and not being arsed to carry them? There was a fair few left in the field, and lots of ice blocks. 

Also, whichever bar is using reusable plastic pint pots needs to change it’s policy, I’m guessing there’s a deposit, but they were just being dumped all over. 

Never did find the SL WW rep, but we cleaned up a bag full of rubbish from around tents in our area of SL before leaving anyway. 

[The Nal]

Very clean around me in Lime Kiln. Spotless actually.

[waynewdk]

Bit mis leading headline 

[DeanoL]

Rivermead was mostly clean but this was funny, pretty sure this camp was abandoned, bags just full of rubbish:

 

 

[Festival Liam]

What's the general consensus on the best thing to do with our neatly made up bags of rubbish (plus any larger items that might have e.g. broke and won't fit in a bag): i) leave by the ridiculous pile of bags at the rubbish point and cause more chaos there, spilling into paths, bags breaking etc; or ii) leave more neatly sorted at our camping spot a couple of minutes away from the rubbish point?

Never quite sure, have this debate every very tired Monday morning at Glastonbury.

[benc]

We we packed up late morning Sunday, we packed up our area obs... I have a gut feeling the nos crew we we camped near probably were going to leave a trace but the other groups seemed to have kept tidy as they went along, so I have some faith in them.

In generally, it felt a lot better

[maelzoid]

15 hours ago, Billy Corgans hair said:

Just been scrolling through twitter and seeing loads of Climate deniers posting a photo from a decade ago claiming it's this year. I was going to argue with them but I have the blues and I cba.

Does anyone have any 'leave no trace ' photos either good or bad

 

 

 

 

Without fail, a version of this appears every single year.

[waynewdk]

10 minutes ago, Festival Liam said:

What's the general consensus on the best thing to do with our neatly made up bags of rubbish (plus any larger items that might have e.g. broke and won't fit in a bag): i) leave by the ridiculous pile of bags at the rubbish point and cause more chaos there, spilling into paths, bags breaking etc; or ii) leave more neatly sorted at our camping spot a couple of minutes away from the rubbish point?

Never quite sure, have this debate every very tired Monday morning at Glastonbury.

We used the garbage area a lot but it started to overflow, so Monday morning I put a few in there and then added to a neat pile that was started on a corner, where I noticed the dustbin van lorry always passed by

[maelzoid]

I'd obviously like to see less litter, but the issue is not as simple as 'put it in the bin' even though I do that. We all saw loads of overflowing bins all weekend long. So then you need more bin emptying, which then means more bin lorries cruising around a site with no roads and full of pedestrians. It is a logistical nightmare.

It's a shame that the reusable cup thing did not catch on, and paper cups are the norm again, but from a speed-of-service and H&S standpoint, I understand the reasons.