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Teresa Moore is a Director of A Greener Festival. She has been researching the problem of tent waste at festivals for a number of years, having carried out the first pan-European survey on the issue in 2012 for A Greener Festival and Go Group. For the last four years she has conducted research on the campsites at the Isle of Wight Festival, amongst others, and in 2018 advised Greenpeace on setting up the Eco-Camp at Download Festival as part of ongoing research for her PhD in Sustainable Event Management.

Yet again in 2018 we were confronted with the aftermath of festival camping, when image after image of campsite waste, mainly tents, appeared in the press.

But in fact, waste is a problem that besets many different types of events. Just watching the clear up after Notting Hill Carnival, with over 60 tons of waste left behind, confirms that waste is a problem not solely restricted to festivals. But what is a…

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