Glasto 2016 tent walkabout 

The irony is that a lot of these exact types think they're going to eradicate the selfish evils of capitalism and transform society into an empathy based socialist utopia.

This video was filmed by a really good guy who works at the Festival and loves and respects Glastonbury. He's not a pompous toff trying to judge people, he's a normal bloke who desperately wants to make sure that the festival's future is secured for decades to come, and not threatened by selfish people's behaviour. It's no different to the call to people not to pee on the land which, other than being pretty disgusting, is a genuine threat to the festival's future as it damages the land and could result in the festival's licence being revoked/not renewed. Just take your crap home people, it really isn't that hard and is the nice thing to do...

The abusive comments are a bit much really. This video was made by a guy who volunteers at the festival every year and cares deeply about it. He's just trying to draw attention to an issue that could seriously endanger the future of the festival and goes totally against everything the festival stands for. So if you are going to Glastonbury next year please clean up after you. There are places in every campsite where you can leave rubbish and packed up tents which are donated to charity.

Wow, some of those tents are huge, I don't mind coming by and claiming a few decent ones lol

It's depressing to see this. 2016 was my first Glastonbury, as a trader. I felt bad about having to leave two piece of plywood behind that I'd been trying to drive my van over to get out of the mud. We were towed out by a tractor onto the roadway and just had to drive and keep the queue moving, so we couldn't retrieve the plywood. We left behind one groundsheet which was ruined by the mud - we rolled it up and put it in a skip, it took a couple of minutes. The scale of "I've paid my money and it's not my problem" is breathtaking. I bought a new 4 person tent for the festival, and know how much these things cost....some of the gear that people are leaving is expensive, not just little £20 festival specials, but big tents costing hundreds of pounds. These are people going to the festival knowing in advance that they will shirk all their responsibilities and simply because they can afford to leave their gear, they do, and never think of one second of the cost to others and the consequences. Jasus, we spent half a day packing a tonne and a half of gear into our van before we left and I wouldn't have dreamt of leaving any of our spare packaging, surplus canisters etc.

Emily Tweeted that in 2019 99.3% of tents were removed. THATS AN AMAZING IMPROVEMENT!!!!! THANKS AND WELL DONE TO EVERYONE THAT DID THAT!!!

That's a shame. We left no trace my mom and I and I'm proud of that!

Absolutely 100% Spot on! There are spots where you can see that people have gone to the nth degree to 'leave no trace' - but there are those who are nothing more than "takers in society" - this kind of thinking isn't sustainable - not just at glastonbury but in the wider world. They let the rest of us down who do see and massively respect the monumental effort that the organisers and staff put into the festival - especially this year. The least we can do is tidy up after ourselves!

Urgh this is one of my biggest pet hates. I went this year and took every last thing home with me and threw away all of my litter. Does this make me a saint? No! This makes me a reasonable person! PICK UP YOUR SHIT PEOPLE!

that's utterly disgusting the amount of stuff left this year. yes there was a lot of mud covering my possessions and I've managed to clean it ALL at HOME. I took everything back with me and bagged up all our rubbish and took it to the bin. perfectly good tents there just left :-( soooo wasteful and selfish/lazy :-(

they should stamp or tag the tents with the ticket purchase number and send them a bill for the cleanup cost that may stop this

Just finished 3 days camping at Belladrum festival took everything home and black bagged all rubbish and put in designated area. Left no trace, it's not fucking hard.

Worked at Glastonbury a few years ago as a cleaner great money plus found about 80 pound in cash 2 pairs of dre beats headphones a g shock watch other people on clean up got a lot more than I got

Disgusting, I remember camping with the scouts, at the end we would walk the campground in a line picking up every last piece of rubbish, seeing the mess makes me sick.

Maybe the festival goers should all be emailed to remind them... AND Mr. Eaves (He can do the emailing!!) That there are thousands of desperate and resourceless refugees drifting across Europe as we type... a few tents and sleeping bags would not go amiss...

Anyone else just waiting to see someone still passed out in one of the tents?

Some looks really good. That's actually how I got mine! Found it abandoned at Download. Nice 4 person one. Been keeping it ever since! Some of those are worth hundreds! It's sad to see people abandoning their tents. What a waste...

Thats one powerful video right there. Ought to be seen by everyone as part of their ticket purchase process.

Love the farm. Leave no trace. END OF!!!!!!!!! Sickening.

Ant these guys argue year after year that campground tickets get more and more expensive... I can only shake my head... My tent goes with me for 12 years now. And when i leave a festival, i leave nothing but my footsteps!

Tents should be tagged -& barcode at the entrance. Any left over tents incurs a £50 admin fee.

this is unreal... I actually feel nauseous - how CAN people do this. Do they have no shame?

Absolutely disgusting. Some people with far more money than decency. Thanks for filming this.

I felt sick, but it was the camera work!

Another mans trash is another mans treasure, my whole tent went walk about with everything including my musings in a book before it was over, so I was grateful for some free clothes at the end of it :-)

I can remember going to Glasto in the 90's and the audience actually cleared up after each set - not all of them but a lot of them. This is just people with too much disposable income....

i hoped he would discover a drunk guy still sleeping in his tent

Shocked by this, but good to know the message has got across this year. I have camped for many years, you look after your kit and pack it away. It may get dirty, but on a dry day just get it out and clean it down..simple job and you have kit for life. Admittedly I have never been to a festival, but my son does in his camper van. Part of his kit that comes is a sticker for his window to show what field he should be in also a serial number showing who it belongs to and how many should with it. I do not know whether it is practical to have some sort of registration system for the tents, with a semi permeable sticker with a number on that can be stuck on the outside to identify the same, so if it gets left behind, they know who it belongs to and they then get charged the disposal costs. Also it may show who has bought extra tents, or who shouldn't be there, and charge them for registration or ticket or kick them out. Your thoughts Flashing Frog?

My guess is, that most of them traveled by plane and that the luggage fees are to high to carry all the equipment. Maybe the festival should offer rentable tents.

Oooh! I'll buy a few second hand tents if there's any going! One previous, careless owner yes?

he's a good guy... thanks for all the hard work guys...

Now I have a genuine excuse as to why I have never been to one of these festivals and never will.

part of me is horrified about the state its left in but............there is some serious money left behind there and as glastonbury supports many charitable causes those tents and sleeping bags can provide huge amounts of help. it is a sad state of a throwaway society but its also a massive boom just cos of the idleness of others.

At the beginning I was like 'free tents!' But by the end I'm like 'Theres so many of them' What gets done with them? There are literally hundreds. It would take a week to take them all down.

This makes me so sad. We stayed at South Park 1, left no trace and actually carried our tent back to Finland on coaches, trains and even on the plane. It's not that hard guys? Watching this makes you feel like the people who take everything home do it for nothing.

Thanks for posting, and i like the commentary. Disposable living. It's disgraceful and must be so sad for the staff after such an amazing festival. I know when I Ieave Glasto seeing all the tents makes me feel like it's turned into a dystopia, like people have fled a disaster. We need to all spread the word that while one person leaving one tent feels it's a small act, it leads to this tragedy of the commons. Those who continue to do it need to be fined/banned from coming.

Literally this is my favourite part

cool, free tents to sell on ebay

thank you for uploading this video. your spirit and message couldn't be more commendable. I'm hoping to get tickets for my first ever Glastonbury in a few weeks. but I still want to have a wander round on the monday, to just see if this year's improvement has been sustained. also, I think there's something truly magical about wandering around the festival site once everyone has departed. all the energies are still floating around.

This is horrible who would leave all their stuff for someone else to pick up after them. In 2016 we wanted to leave our tent because it was old so first we packed it up and put it into a bin on-site.

to everyone who says pack them up, sell them on, donate it all to charity, i say this: its that attitude that causes the problem. many people leave their tents thinking they will go to good causes and their are charities that want them. that is crazy, it took 175000 people to put those tents up, how many to take them down again? plus theyre wrecked! filled with rubbish and filthy. the festival needs to identify whos tent and ban them from coming back!

There were some seriously expensive tents there... Who leaves something like that behind?

Saw 2 tents on this video that I own and they weren't exactly cheap with a RRP of £300 & £80. Can't believe people leave all this behind when a charity would happily take them for refugees :'(

There's a few tents there I'd love to have. I left a rectangle of slightly yellow grass.

Utterly disgusting..they've got far too much money...I would hope that the organisers would invite free tents for folk...I would like one!!...and well done FFrog for highlighting this!! Danny

so many free tents

In 2008 I uploaded an excerpt from BBC Countryfile (since taken down) titled 'Glastonbury Shame' about all the crap left behind at this "festival" and the excuses people made for leaving it. Eight years later and nothing has changed from generation can't be arsed.

Thanks for posting this. Absolutely shocking. Every year the same thing.

It's unbelievable the amount of of perfectly good stuff that has been left behind. I've only done after festival litter picking at Glastonbury once, in 1993, and there was nothing like that sort of waste then. Yes, there were bags of groceries that hadn't been used, and the occasional bottle of booze, but I don't remember any usable tents having been left behind. Broken ones, yes, but not the perfectly good ones that we see there.

kept expecting him to find a body in one of the tents

appalling, money spent on tents that have been wasted, rubbish left, all for someone else to pick up, if I go camping or to a festival, I take my tent and rubbish and belongings back home with me, thanks for sharing

i know the feeling I had to clear up all the tents after a big music festival in Shrewsbury

I sincerely hope these tents end up with people who need them and not in landfill.

This is so disgraceful. Would it be possible to put out a small advert for people to come onsite on the Monday , they could pay a very small fee, but they could choose any tent they wanted to take home. Some of those tents look quite good and quite new. Or as others have said many homeless would be so glad of one, the festival goers should at least have the decency to fold them up and donate them.... they have no respect for the brilliant location they were given to camp out

so cant it just be a thing where at the end of the festival people can come and take what they need? i know loads of people who would come and take a tent for themselves but would stay to take down and sort out the rest so they can be donated.

They/those who attend don't deserve all the work that goes into such a festival. I can understand why you feel quite sickened at these selfish persons. There are also many who lost work because of the festival and humungous traffic jams preventing ordinary hard working people doing their deliveries getting to work etc and suffering loss of earnings.When they see this video it will reinforce their view: a load of s....y very selfish people who take everything and give nothing 'having fun' so called, at everyone else's expense. disgusting: I am glad you have highlighted this.

Here in Spain, there's one festival not as big as Glasto, but targeted specially to teenagers, and the first Monday morning after it concludes you can find somithing quite similar to this video. And there's always a bunch of Gipsy families searching for any mobile, wallet or similar people left there. But problem is that if anybody non-gipsy try to go to get any tent or similar, they get threatened by the gipsys xDDDD (true story)

At Download Festival the good tents that are left behind are donated to charity. Don't know if Glastonbury does it but i think every festival should do it.

Some of these tents must have been very expensive, but then, anyone paying Eavis's entry prices cannot be short of money. Trainee accountants & bankers, must make up a large proportion of the intake. Of course, if one has £10,000 , one can take Eavis's "Glamping " options, and eat lobster for dinner, washed down with champagne. This festival bears no relation to what it used to be; a spiritual event. No concessions at all are offered to the local Glastonbury residents, yet our name has been taken, and even part-patented by Eavis, and the town was the inspiration for the festival as well. Eavis is a money-grabber, and not the nice man that people think he is.

Some of the festivals in Belgium organise a day where people can come and take whatever tents or belongings were left behind unpacked. That way there's people clearing most of the area free of cost and most of the stuff ends up getting reused.

that fucking bell tent is worth 800 bucks where I live.

Require people to hang a ticket with their registration number on it on their tent. And if that tent is abandoned then they're banned from getting tickets for five years.

That moment when he comes across a guy rolling about his tent still thinking it's Friday haha

Great video and TOTALLY agree with your points. People have no respect for their surroundings. Take your shit home.

What happens to all these tents? Because my scout troop would be able to make use of them, we have to buy 4 - 6 tents every couple of years, as we do a lot of camping and they wear out, and they are expensive.

i want a tent, how can i get one ?

My first Glasto was back in 94 (yes a fence jumper) and my last was 2011 (disgusted at the sheer middle class ignorance of it all, and yes I am probably some kinda middle classed wanker too) I have 9 Glastos under my belt. A once great fetival, full of diversity of music, styles, entertainments and most of all people! Since the new fence around the start of this century, it became blindingly obvious that certain "types" were being manouvered and discouraged from attending (I am not and have never been a krusty by the way) maybe "types" we have \ had all been guilty of sneering at, at worst? but ultimately a hearty mix so diverse that we were all encouraged to mix and to really live up to the myth of a Glastonbury vibe by partying together, having fun together, learning different ways to converse and obviously buying certain drugs that other "types" had over the mainstream jeans and t shirt people... yes! LSD, Shrooms, Hash truffles (rip off but you always bought some) those skanky girls that always smelled of that hippy perfume, selling watered down tequila shots from their oddly sexy holsters blah blah blah often found in higher numbers operating around the green fields /stone circle areas. like I say, since the turn of the century these diversities have been replaced between upper working classes and middle classes... gone were the days where you fished out your old scabby jeans, hiking boots and big comfy night time jumpers or fleeces, and they were replaced with pre Glasto shopping trips to buy designer clothes and massive party tents for the after after hours noz and general carry on of debauchery, hurrah! Im not gonna lie, I have left behind mud filled tents since my first 22 years ago.... usually because I have gotten into a right 2 n 8 and couldnt be arsed (shocking I know but there always used to be a guilt freeing rumour that the tents were collected and sent away to oxfams etc) obviously it was BS but hey.... maybe the site should open up the gates and I am sure some enterprising souls would happily spend a few days carefully removing these tents for resale? has to be 10s of £s worth? the point is if you stream down a festival crowd to identikit peoples who have a higher amount of disposable income, and frankly a more greedy personal world view, you are gonna get exactly this behaviour. 6 people all chip in for a £500 super tent, come monday morning, its full of mud due to the excessive floods this site is famed for, youre probably gonna stand together, broken and vote to leave it and get home asap. sad times but if you invite cunts you get cuntish behaviour. ps its 50 stages, not a hundred and yes its probably the biggest mainstream festival in the world but no way is it the best~! everyone should go once but their are much better fetivals in the UK let alone the world.... but I get your point film maker.

thanks for sharing this.

Thanks for making that. Needs to be seen. Name and shame.

A friend of mine is part of the clean up team. They salvage anything they can and take it to charity shops. The reusable tents are sent away to be cleaned , then are packed away ready for emergency workers to take to disaster zones. The bulldozers then come in and clean the rubbish up.

I've volunteered with the recycling crew for 2 years now. Its a shame what people leave. If you brought it with you take it home with you.

I've had my tent over 10 year . . lol . . where can i buy one of these tents

Does any of this get re-used or does it all go to landfill?

What happens to tents etc? Are they avail for people

i am completely horrified! How could they do that? all that was asked was "leave no trace". at least our group did as we were asked!

I always make all my friends pick up EVERYTHING once we're done at a festival. The key is to just never let it get really dirty in the first place. Have a proper garbage bag or bin, sort your clothes, be dilligent about where you wear your boots etc.

Wow, thanks for the video. I wasn't aware of the sheer level of waste generated by festival goers. Not that this group care, but the Ines leaving the waste behind means that more resources are required to clean up, which comes at a cost. That cost will drive ticket prices up. Unfortunately they only hurt those of us that already can't afford a ticket, not this mob.

The thing to do is take a van to Glastonbury and stay a couple of extra days packing down all of the most expensive/good condition tents and loading them into your van. Think how many tents a decent sized van could fit. Three of you would be enough to pack up tents fairly quickly. Stick them all on eBay and you'll be laughing, you could even take the pics on site before you take them down to save on having to re-erect them on the other end.

give me 1 reason why you should leave you're tents ect... I am struggling to find one .

would it be OK if you just took one of the tents for your self? You'd need to clean them and maybe stitch some patches onto it, but many are good (and expensive) tents.

Get a van, roll the tents up, sell £40 each on ebay £60 for the bigger ones each, make a few grand easily. Not too difficult either.

wow, I would make a lot of money selling those tents

The organisers need to change how they organise it, I go to festivals everywhere and never see this amount of waste, so what's different with festivals like rewind at Henley and Edinburgh, the tickets are more expensive and you don't leave unless you have tidied your stuff away, loads of patrols around to make sure of it- the higher price means you can afford the staff, makes sense to me

I once picked up a hitch hiker (few years ago) who's job it was, to go round all the summer festivals in the UK, dismantling tents that had been disgarded, and pass them on to charities. This was a married guy with 3 kids, and it took him away from his family, but he thought it an impoirtant job. I agreed.

so many perfectly good expensive tents left behind. I'd pack them all up and re-sell them.

As you suggested in your commentary, I'm sure there's some scouts, charities, youth groups and other organisations around who would happily come and collect the unwanted tents. It does begger belief though, why people would leave so many things!

Kelburn has an environmental deposit of £5 payable on entrance, recoverable only on production of a bag of rubbish and a tent. Is there something like this at Glasto now?

I think one of the root issues is alcohol, making people go largely unconscious and unable to function rationally. I think we need to look seriously at this socially 'acceptable' drug and all the harm it causes.

Our local fire brigade are gifted a couple of trucks rental, they pop down, fill 'em up, bring them back to Cornwall, check & sort and have a massive sale on the local rugby pitch. All for charity. OK, some people don't get the whole 'leave nothing but a footprint' thing, but there is a bright side.

We always go and look at the stuff they leave it's so shocking

WHAAAT ??? Mais comment on peut abandonner des tentes à 400/ 500 euros ?

Is this an annual event? Because if so, I really feel like comming along next year, using a pressure washer to clean the tents out, repackage those that can be and send them off to wellfare so that others can make proper use of the tents. Because right now, the only course of action seems to be to bulldoze it and trash it. It's going to take days if you want to pack them again. Unless there's a big team doing so.

That looks like the aftermath of some sort of zombie attack

I've been going to the big G since 89, I no longer go as it's sickening what it has become, a victim of it's own success, years back it was a real community feel with everyone looking out for each other, not much was left behind as the sort of people going did not have disposable incomes like the crowd you have been getting the last 15+ years, more importantly they were (for the most part) people who cared about the environment & each other, the rot really all stated IMO when travelers were refused entry & specialized security had to be laid on, something which would never have been needed had it remained in the hands of the travelers to regulate, something they did really well without pay just for the love of it & the wanting of this summer place to lay back & enjoy the music & company. Heck now you can't even get a ticket unless you have super fast broadband, I myself used to do what little I could & would dismantle tents & equipment to take home & find new homes for, I would ram my little 3 wheeler full to the hilt with anything recyclable, a drop in the ocean, but it felt like I was doing something, now they will not even let you remove anything from the site, they say it all goes to charity, but I have seen with my own eyes that they have in past years simply pilled things up with bulldozers in to huge piles & set them on fire, this is whats wrong with society, so many could benefit from these discarded items, like the 3rd world & eve the homeless here in the UK, many go without as much as a sleeping bag on the streets & here we see those with more than they need not caring as daddy will by me new stuff for the next festival, it really does make you feel physically sick.

hang on, so they all leave their tents? And these are the people who were clamouring to remain in the EU.

I remember when those pop up tents were first launched. Festivals used to be littered with them because by the end nobody could figure out how to fold them up again. Surprised to see it happening with such big expensive tent though. But, I guess at £230+ a ticket you're going to mainly have people who can afford to just walk away and not have the hassle. Probably the only time in their lives they've ever slept in a tent so have no compunction to use it again. Hope there's s charity involved shipping them over to refugees in Calais and similar places that would benefit from shelter.

Can these be got to refugees - might be really helpful, and what quantities

I would be cleaning up every tent there and making a profit from their stupidity.. Wow.. That's a few G easy on eBay lol

Due to the extortionate price of Glastonbury tickets now, only rich folk can afford to go and they're the type of sods that leave all of this mess!

Average tent cost £100. Airbed £15, Sleeping bag £15, chair £5. About £150 abandoned per tent you see :( So much waste, and looking at that it wasn't even that muddy up there all those tents looked in really good condition. *sigh*