‘Small and mighty, that’s what we are’: the team turning discarded tents into bags

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/30/small-and-mighty-thats-what-we-are-the-team-turning-discarded-tents-into-bags

Lauren Mason decided to take action after witnessing huge amounts of camping gear abandoned at festivals

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6 Comments

Zachariah@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Are they no longer usable as tents?

RoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

They're made to be disposable and are often quite damaged, I believe.

Zachariah@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

terrible

PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I'm glad they specified it was festival detritus. I was worried it was stolen from camps of the unhoused.

ashaman2007@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

The amount that even the middle class is capable of wasting compared to the poor is immense... I imagine the stuff from encampments is probably just trashed with no other consideration

clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y

To be fair, tents are not meant to be used daily, so those tents are probably not reusable anyway.