[Crimson Dynamo]

This is how the generation that cares about the planet left Reading Festival



As many as 90,000 people flocked to the festival over the bank holiday
weekend with performances from Stormzy and AJ Tracey, Liam Gallagher and
rock band Biffy Clyro.

As the dust settled on its first event since 2019, drone footage at 5pm today
showed the scale of the waste they left behind.

At least six fields were each littered with hundreds of abandoned tents, vast
numbers of beer cans, bottles and unwanted clothes.

Similar pictures were captured at Reading’s slightly smaller sister festival in
Leeds.

Every abandoned tent contains the equivalent of 9,000 plastic straws and
requires 25kg of carbon dioxide to make – the same amount of pollution as a
car driving 100 miles.

The mess left behind is in sharp contrast to research suggesting people from
Generation Z (born from 1997 to 2012) care deeply about the environment
and sustainability.



https://metro.co.uk/2021/08/31/this-...ival-15184937/