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I was talking to a buddy of mine afterwards, we both thought this year wasn't as bad as years past. I think the second and third year were the worst by far. The mud made everything worse.
I completely agree with this. While I was at roo I thought that the trash, while pretty disgusting, wasn't as bad as previous years. I don't look like a hippie, but I yell at the girl that I mentor if she even throws a gum wrapper on the ground. It's your actions that count, not how you look to the outside world. Well, except when you come to Bonnaroo in your hummer...I'm judging those folks on their outward appearance for sure!
only thing i left at my campsite was a bag of apples and a bag of oranges (plastic removed) I did feel bad for dropping a couple beer cups during the tool show but there was no trash recepticle for me to put them, just a atv with staff lounging on it watching tool surrounded by sacks of garbage, i threw some of my beer cups ontop of the mound but there needed to be way more trash recipticles in general all over the festival.
Post by tok4nug2nati0n on Jun 22, 2007 4:29:24 GMT -5
I put all my trash in my backpack/extra plastic bags I carried around. I even had a few people ask me for extra bags, for their trash, when they saw me doing it.
Everyone around my campsite recycled religiously.
Another thing people need to remember is to dump their food and such in the woods. Also, try to offer leftovers to neighbors whenever possible. Just ask... there's plenty of people willing to help you out, myself included. I can't stand to see someone without food or extra water and not be able to get out to make a trip or too afraid to bother someone for a minute.
Y'all also need to quit trashing parking lots while in Manchester and throwing shit at performers, such as the Lewis Black incident. I thought that was staged, at first.
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The first thing that my father, my husband and I did was to hang up our green and clear bags in front of our camper (we were right next to 2nd street). Most of the time people would throw away their garbage and recyclables in the appropriate bags as they walked by our site! We also gave the majority of our leftover food to the guys next to us (including half of a watermelon and honey-dew melon, much to their appreciation!)
I also noticed that I noticed WAAAAY more ground trash this year than last year. I just can't help but to correlate that with the larger ammount of younger folks this year. BUT, it could also be that alot of the older folks are gettin' lazy in their old age....RIIIIGHT!
The hippies cleaned up their camps. It's just that Roo is no longer a hippie festival. As Roo get more and more mainstream, there's more and more trash (and more rude people.) Still Roo is a better experience than most and I'll always be there and always have a clean camp.
This comment in the most recent Maxim irked us a bit: "...Bonnaroo has lost its hippie stink and started featuring serious rock'n'roll..."
I'm not a true hippie, but I don't mind the hippies or their stink. personally, I think they are an important part as to why roo has such a different (better) environment than the other big festivals.
Trash didn't seem as bad this year to me either
Here's a thought - You know how they have those bag stands for produce in supermarkets? I think they should have something like that posted up all around (esp the stages or by the recycle stations) with recycle bags in them. On the stands could be a sign with all necessary info (what to recycle etc)
I know if I'm waiting on a show with nothing better to do but chill in the grass I'd be more than happy to grab a bag and start picking stuff up.
Just not sure if people would start using the bags for other reasons or pulling them out for the heck of it...but it would be worth the try!
Post by kingofcheezwiz on Jun 22, 2007 12:25:40 GMT -5
I just got home from clean-up today. While I found a lot of ground scores, the camp ground was an absolute mess. Clean Vibes is doing an awesome job (still, as I type this people are cleaning the farm), but it's really hard to clean up after everyone. Hopefully people will start to get the message more and more as 'roo continues to go on.
The hippies cleaned up their camps. It's just that Roo is no longer a hippie festival. As Roo get more and more mainstream, there's more and more trash (and more rude people.) Still Roo is a better experience than most and I'll always be there and always have a clean camp.
This comment in the most recent Maxim irked us a bit: "...Bonnaroo has lost its hippie stink and started featuring serious rock'n'roll..."
I'm not a true hippie, but I don't mind the hippies or their stink. personally, I think they are an important part as to why roo has such a different (better) environment than the other big festivals.
Trash didn't seem as bad this year to me either
Here's a thought - You know how they have those bag stands for produce in supermarkets? I think they should have something like that posted up all around (esp the stages or by the recycle stations) with recycle bags in them. On the stands could be a sign with all necessary info (what to recycle etc)
I know if I'm waiting on a show with nothing better to do but chill in the grass I'd be more than happy to grab a bag and start picking stuff up.
Just not sure if people would start using the bags for other reasons or pulling them out for the heck of it...but it would be worth the try!
Post by roolacksreality on Jun 23, 2007 13:06:16 GMT -5
I picked up at least 1,000 cigarette buds and C Notes among the surround areas of our camp site. I don't see how hard it is to put them in a can or something.
Post by ChiefPemperToadWigginsky on Jun 23, 2007 13:24:42 GMT -5
When you saw a Clean Viber walking around picking up trash you coulda asked them for a bag, me and my brother helped out after Rod Y gab, Tool, SCI, JBT, and Ben Harper. If Everyone picked up a five cups or bottles it could have been done in 20 mintues. Even the beer tent behind teh bleachers were not recycling and the clean vibes dude got on their ass, but the tent workers were totally rude. the worst part was when the lady looked to me for sympathy of some kind and complaining about recycling, needless to say she did not receive any tip for the rest of the fest.
My boyfriend and I were talking about this festival they have down in FL. There is a company that rents camping stuff to people that are flying in or otherwise don't have their own stuff. I wish I had the money to something like this near Bonnaroo because then people who had to buy things when they landed would have an alternative to buying and leaving behind. Or even if there was some way to collect all the bought and used once stuff and save it until next year so it could be distributed first come first serve or something to those who didn't have.
I was shocked at the trash that was thrown down and left behind. We were in the RV Handicap Access Camping and as it cleared out we noticed that a group camped over by the fence near the trees had left a huge mess. My daughter looked at me and said we can't leave that mess.
We walked over and found huge boxes of trash plus the trash that had not made it into the box. Awful does not begin to state the condition. So with the help of other campers in the area we picked up the trash, then we brought all of our bags to the same area. The boxes were so large that we could not move them. We felt that Clean Vibs was going to have to do some creative loading for the huge box full of mixed trash. From looking at the box, I am sure that Clean Vibs went through it and pulled out what they could recycle. I would say that even with our clean up effort that it took a while to load it up and clean up what was left over from loading the box.
I found that the trash made it very difficult to walk around - I felt that there were many areas that could have used trash cans. I know that I often had to carry my trash for a long time before I could find a place to get rid of it.
I really felt that if everyone had tended their own mess that things would have stayed cleaner - I would have thought that the crowd would have been a group with recycling habits. I was not prepared for the mess on the grounds at Centeroo.
They need a lot more trash cans right before the arch on the way in, every nite i remember wading through piles of trash on the way out after the late nites. Even slobs are more likely to throw stuff away if you make it very convenient.
Post by randallpinkfloyd on Jun 25, 2007 15:44:34 GMT -5
i think alot of people didnt feel like holding their trash during an entire show and put it down at their feet, and forgot about it when they left ( how easy is that when theres so much to think about doing) or lost it cause people where pushing their way through the crowd and were sloowwlly getting pushed further away from the stage.
our campsite was as good when we left as when we got there, and i saw more people in my camp with all their trash in a bag than just all over the place.
just drop your garbage on the ground cuz it's inconvenient to find a trash bin??? how about finding a can of beer and dropping it in a plastic bag in your backpack then taking it to the recycling bin when you leave. the mess was disgusting at the which stage after the flaming lips. PACK IT IN, PACK IT OUT! Leave only footprints and we'll have a clean Bonnaroo! Your mommy doesn't clean up after you anymore.
Post by phishinalong on Jun 25, 2007 16:20:05 GMT -5
we left our camp spotless as well. recycled everything we could, minimized trash when possible...we only filled 1 trash bag between 4 of us. ALWAYS pocketed my cig butts and always had a packpack with me. so I finish a bottle of water, the empty goes in the packpack until I can get back to camp and recycle it. its so easy.
Near our camp was a bunch of peeps for who this was their 4th Bonnaroo and they attend many other fests throughout the year - they left their shade shelter, a tent box and their mixed trash was spilling out of their bag all over when they left.
To our right were some kids from R.I. who bought all their stuff at Wal-mart on the way down. They asked us if we wanted any of their stuff. We didn't, they still packed it all up, boxes and all in their car to take back to R.I. They were privileged little brats who didn't leave a speck on their campsite.
To our left were two very clean cut folks from Canada. I think their site was cleaner when they left than when they came. They, like us tied their green bag to one rearview mirror of their vehicle, clear to the other to keep it easy. then when random people walked by, they even used the trash bags, and the correct ones.
I had a very small bag, and as a girl usually wore dresses sans pockets in Centeroo. Made it hard to hold my trash until I found one of the very few and far between, yet overflowing trash receptacles, but it was done. I said it before, but in Centeroo, there weren't enough trash bins, and they weren't cleaned out often enough. It made the lazy (who come in tye dye, Tool tees and everything in between) have too easy of a time leaving things on the ground. I hope next year they find a way to clear out the trash as often as they did the porta-potties.
I too think they need to either empty the trash more often or add a few more cans, especially near the beer vendors. I always brought my empty bottles with me to be recycled, but I usually had to place them on top of an overflowing pile of trash because the cans were way too full.
I will agree that the trash this year wasn't as bad as I've seen in years past. 2004 was a disgusting mess of trash everywhere you looked, and that was when the crowd had more of "the hippie stink" and less of the "entitled little brats" I hear spoken of. The massive amounts of mud made it harder to clean up the stage areas for clean vibes, I am sure, but it also seemed like people were more careless that year about their trash as a whole.