Green Music Australia have today released their Festival Littering study, analysing the attitudes and actions of attendees at Falls Festival (Lorne), Party In The Paddock and UNIFY Gathering Festivals.
The study spoke to 880 people across the three events, with each person asked 28 questions to form the result, which identified five major factors contributing to campsite littering. '
The leading cause of litter at festival campsites was broken tents that are left behind at the end of the event. It was found that 23% of attendees left their broken tent behind, with people two times more likely to leave their tent if they were from out of state and 20% more likely to leave their tent if they had attended the festival before.
Furthermore, 63% of people believed it wasn’t their responsibility to clean if they had seen a friend leave their tent before and that 45% had seen their friend leave a tent behind before.
Additionally, 55% of attendees believe that it is not everyone’s responsibility to clean up and 20% would pay more for their ticket if it meant that someone else cleaned up for them.
A major factor that drove these results was that when attendees purchased cheaper tents specifically for the festival they didn’t care what happened to them, meaning they were 2.1 times more likely to leave their tent.
As well as the study, Green Music Australia have also held the Cleaner Campsites Industry Roundtable along with APRA, Music Victoria, Untitled Group, Party In The Paddock and Falls & Splendour In The Grass festivals to discuss why patrons leave waste behind and develop a plan to reduce this.
"We’re delighted to work alongside Green Music Australia and a group of like-minded industry peers who are focused on creating a change in behaviour that will have long lasting positive effects," shares Falls & Splendour In The Grass general manager Elise Huntley.
"We know that people want to do the right thing and we will work together as a group to provide them with the opportunity to do so through education and awareness. Forming an alliance to tackle campsite waste at festivals is a massive step in the right direction!"
Find out more about Green Music Australia and their work here.
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