As the new year begins, plenty of punters are left nursing hangovers following the multitude of Aussie music festivals that took place over the last week. Of course, as with many festivals, the next big step is the site cleanup. However the site of one recent concert has been left in such disarray that countless online commentators have been left speechless.
The Lost Paradise music festival recently took place in New South Wales’ picturesque Glenworth Valley over the weekend. Featuring the likes of Matt Corby, RÜFÜS, Client Liaison, DMA’s, and Meg Mac, it was a stellar lineup in a gorgeous location. Understandably, those in attendance would want to maintain the lush location in which the fest was held, right? Well, you’d like to hope so, but no.
Facebook user Jesse McNair recently took to social media to share a video of the aftermath of the New Year’s gig. The video shows rubbish, tents, chairs, and even yoga mats being left behind by recently-vacated attendees, leaving festival organisers to deal with the multitude of trash they left in their wake.
“The festival organisers and patrons need a massive wake up call,” McNair’s post began. “Hardly a bin in sight! For 4 days campers trashed their own camp sites living in squaller but who cares as long as they partied hard that’s all that matters to the younger generation . Everything that was bought for the festival was bought to be trashed and left behind. #throwawaysociety. This is a disgrace.”
“This festival site is surrounded by pristine National Park and a lot of this rubbish was blowing into the tidal creek that flows into the #hawksburyriver and into our beautiful #pacificocean. I’m sure they are all driving back to mum and dads house where’s she cleans up after them.”
“What ever happened to camping where you take everything with you and leave nothing but footprints.”
As expected, numerous other Facebook users weighed in, offering conflicting opinions about who the blame lies with. Some have blamed the punters in attendence for leaving the festival site so ridiculously trashed, while others have been blaming festival organisers for the lack of rubbish bins.
Whatever the case, we just hope that any punters who plan to attend any future music festivals use this video as an example of what not to do when it comes to cleaning up after yourself at a festival.
Check out Jesse McNair’s video of the Lost Paradise aftermath below:
