During festival season, thousands of tents are left abandoned in fields. These tents are not only a nightmare to clean up, but contribute to a significant amount of plastic waste.

Many of these tents are branded as “festival tents,” which encourages people to buy them for cheap and use them once.

Comp-A-Tent have launched a ‘Take Your Tent Home – Say No To Single Use’ campaign. The campaign urges festival goers to rethink their choices and consider reusing their festival tents rather than leaving them abandoned.

“We call upon major retailers to stop marketing and selling tents and other camping items as essentially single-use, and profiting from disposable culture,” said CEO Paul Reed. “AIF launches this campaign to raise awareness and highlight abandoned tents as part of the single-use plastics problem.

“The message here is not to buy a more expensive tent – with a single tent carrying the same amount of plastic as more than 8,700 plastic straws, festival audiences can take positive action and reduce their carbon footprint simply by taking their tent home and reusing it, ensuring that it doesn’t become a single-use item this summer.”

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During festival season, thousands of tents are left abandoned in fields. These tents are not only a nightmare to clean up, but contribute to a significant amount of plastic waste.

Many of these tents are branded as “festival tents,” which encourages people to buy them for cheap and use them once.

Comp-A-Tent have launched a ‘Take Your Tent Home – Say No To Single Use’ campaign. The campaign urges festival goers to rethink their choices and consider reusing their festival tents rather than leaving them abandoned.

“We call upon major retailers to stop marketing and selling tents and other camping items as essentially single-use, and profiting from disposable culture,” said CEO Paul Reed. “AIF launches this campaign to raise awareness and highlight abandoned tents as part of the single-use plastics problem.

“The message here is not to buy a more expensive tent – with a single tent carrying the same amount of plastic as more than 8,700 plastic straws, festival audiences can take positive action and reduce their carbon footprint simply by taking their tent home and reusing it, ensuring that it doesn’t become a single-use item this summer.”

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