“It's rather ironic that the single-use plastic tent has somehow slipped the net”
Question: How long does it take for a tent sent to landfill to decompose? Answer: It’s estimated that it will take between 1,000 and 10,000 years, although landfill archaeologists (yes, they exist) haven’t been around long enough to check.
Yet again in 2018 we were confronted with the aftermath of festival camping, with image after image of campsite waste, mainly tents, appearing in the press. The “teenage wasteland” of our times. But in fact, waste is a problem that besets…
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A Greener Festival director Teresa Moore reveals details of her extensive studies into the problem of tent waste at festivals
Comment 3 April 2019