Abandoned Tents Bulldozed Rather Than Recycled Following Irish Music Festival

A video of dozens of tents being bulldozed following a music festival in County Laois, Ireland, has sparked anger online, with over 600,000 views at the time of writing.Ed Rice shared several videos of tents at different camping grounds in Electric Picnic in Stradbally, County Laois, left behind by festival goers, being pushed by a bulldozer into the middle of the field, commenting that it was obvious the tents were not going to be recycled.Recycling advice on the Electric Picnic website reads, “if you leave it in the field it will most likely end up being incinerated or in a landfill site.” Recycling points were set up at the camping grounds for festival-goers to leave tents and other goods behind if they wished. The tents in the video had been left behind in the fields rather than at the designated recycling points.Rice also shared a contrasting video of a near-empty camping ground at the festival called An Ghaeltacht, dedicated to people wishing to speak exclusively in the Irish language during the weekend, in which campers could be seen packing up their tents, and bags of garbage were neatly tied and assembled in the middle of the allotted ground for easy collection. Credit: Ed Rice via Storyful