Music Festival Versus Garbage: How Reusables Can Win This War A set stage, an energetic crowd, and not a care in the world. The moment at Lollapalooza is choked with nervous energy, overwhelming joy, and, most of all, anticipation. There! Entering the stage! What for now is a mere shadow on the still pitch-black platform will become the mob’s hero once the lights go up. Your favorite musician! Could anything in the universe possibly ruin this blissful time of excitement? Regrettably, you take a step forward and find out. With an unsavory “squish,” the movement lands you right in the middle of someone’s unfinished meal, at least two days old judging by its stomach-turning odor. A quick glance around shows your surroundings are not much better.
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These monsters had a very particular method of advertising: they drunkenly ravaged cities, tearing people apart in a mad frenzy and leaving everything they met in ruins. The intoxicated savages of this tale are comparable to the environmental disasters that are music festivals and their attendees. Utterly careless, the toll is taken on the festival grounds. Litter scatters and covers the ground like a new layer of the Earth. If two pictures, one post-festival and one following a natural disaster, lay side by side, you may not even be capable of distinguishing which is which. Music festivals offer such a lax environment that people carelessly abandon their supplies after or during one. Nicole Bonaccorso of the Weather Channel reported in 2015, “this year’s Glastonbury Festival produced an estimated 1,800 tons of waste, from thousands of plastic beverage bottles and unfinished meals to 5,500 abandoned tents” (Bonaccorso). Does this sound very green to you? Glastonbury is not alone with these revolting masses of garbage. A blogger by the title “The Festival Guy” who regularly attends and details praise or criticism of musical events, attended the Sasquatch!, or
These monsters had a very particular method of advertising: they drunkenly ravaged cities, tearing people apart in a mad frenzy and leaving everything they met in ruins. The intoxicated savages of this tale are comparable to the environmental disasters that are music festivals and their attendees. Utterly careless, the toll is taken on the festival grounds. Litter scatters and covers the ground like a new layer of the Earth. If two pictures, one post-festival and one following a natural disaster, lay side by side, you may not even be capable of distinguishing which is which. Music festivals offer such a lax environment that people carelessly abandon their supplies after or during one. Nicole Bonaccorso of the Weather Channel reported in 2015, “this year’s Glastonbury Festival produced an estimated 1,800 tons of waste, from thousands of plastic beverage bottles and unfinished meals to 5,500 abandoned tents” (Bonaccorso). Does this sound very green to you? Glastonbury is not alone with these revolting masses of garbage. A blogger by the title “The Festival Guy” who regularly attends and details praise or criticism of musical events, attended the Sasquatch!, or