Despite it being an ongoing event for - ohhh for ever, I have never been.
That all came to an end today, today I went to Glasto.
Of course today the only Metalicca was in the form of empty beer cans all over the site.
Historically all my vaguely green mates would wander down there to talk to the trees and such like but I never went.
We pointed the T4 at the problem and headed down with the squawk box issuing instructions in French (that's what comes of letting Branwen play with it) till we landed on site.
Now, we were there for the clear up day on the campsite. When I first drove on I thought the campsite was still live - but it wasn't. Field after field of nearly new if not brand new tents - all abandoned.
The waste was obscene Glasto is supposed to be the fest for the connected greenish person, this was consumerism gone wild. We have collected in a few hours camping gear that really surprises.
Some of the tents it turns out were 30 pounds a go several it turns out would have cost 150 pounds, and someone just dumped them.
We have made a community resource for round here which will give access to equipment that people might not otherwise have.
But it has all been on the back of unbelievable waste.
The organisers were brilliant, they were pleased to see stuff not going for scrap - embarrassed also by the monster they seem to have created.
The original green festival is taken over by consumerism and hedonism.
R
That all came to an end today, today I went to Glasto.
Of course today the only Metalicca was in the form of empty beer cans all over the site.
Historically all my vaguely green mates would wander down there to talk to the trees and such like but I never went.
We pointed the T4 at the problem and headed down with the squawk box issuing instructions in French (that's what comes of letting Branwen play with it) till we landed on site.
Now, we were there for the clear up day on the campsite. When I first drove on I thought the campsite was still live - but it wasn't. Field after field of nearly new if not brand new tents - all abandoned.
The waste was obscene Glasto is supposed to be the fest for the connected greenish person, this was consumerism gone wild. We have collected in a few hours camping gear that really surprises.
Some of the tents it turns out were 30 pounds a go several it turns out would have cost 150 pounds, and someone just dumped them.
We have made a community resource for round here which will give access to equipment that people might not otherwise have.
But it has all been on the back of unbelievable waste.
The organisers were brilliant, they were pleased to see stuff not going for scrap - embarrassed also by the monster they seem to have created.
The original green festival is taken over by consumerism and hedonism.
R
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