The sheer number

 

While reading an article about a British company that recycles tents abandoned at music festivals, I discovered the sheer numbers of how many tents are abandoned.

That's pretty amazing -- and disgusting.

Abandoned festival tents upcycled into clothes

Here's the number:

"The Association of Independent Festivals estimated that 250,000 tents are left at music festivals each summer, with most of them being sent straight to landfill."

250,000? 

My first thought was that there are a lot of deserving kid's groups, camping groups, college clubs, and other types of organizations that could use those tents. My second thought was that these barely-used tents could be distributed to make better conditions for homeless people, at least temporarily.  My third thought was that there must be a lot of stores selling tents in Britain -- or a lot of Amazon deliveries.

In any case, the company, Retribe, makes clothing out of a few of the recovered tents. But not many of them.

There has to be a better way (and the article mentions that one company is going to try and rent tents to reduce the number of the abandoned ones). 

And I do hope there's a better way, because this is ridiculous: