Littering

[minilogue]

When I came to Rock im Park for the first time, I was very shocked at messy ground.
It was much different from Japanese music festivals.
Why everyone throw rubbish　around? German is environmentally-advanced country, isn't it?

I think partly because too few litter boxes, a matter of difference in national character and there are other reasons.
Or music festival is "anything goes" in general?
I have been to Rock Werchter in Belgium and it was in much the same state as RIP.
Everyone feel nothing looking at rubbish on the ground at rock music festivals?
What else can you think of?
Let me know what your opinion is on the topic.


For your information, Fuji Rock festival in Japan the NGO group(over 200 volunteers) navigate rubbish separation and distribute litter bags.

http://osm-daosaka.cocolog-nifty.com/photos/uncategorized/2010/07/31/ca3c0154.jpg
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http://www.gomizero.org/gallery2/index.html

They never pick up. Volunteers, visitors, staffs and all who are there keep festival grounds clean.
Paper cups and plastic bottles are recycled and transformed into next year's toilet roll and litter bags and staff jackets.

 

[icedearth]

I don't think national character has anything to do with it...

 

[duke]

I think this is all about the character. I haven't seen this behaviour in other countries when I went to concerts or festivals there. In France for example was the cleanest festival i've ever been to and there where no rubbish seperating people who took care of it. Everyone knew their own responsibility...
I don't know where this mindset comes from. You can see this in almost all citys here, too. Maybe it's laziness, maybe the people got too much on their mind already and don't think it matters. I think in many other countries it's a principle that everyone is polite and clean in public, that may be something this country doesn't have. I think it also lacks of respect to strangers to come to that mindset.
All that is a big problem in the society and can't be solved with prices like the "Umwelt Rocky" - That price just symbolizes that to be clean means to be very special...