T.I.T.S. U.P. Photo-booth travelled to Electric Picnic 2023

T.I.T.S U.P. (This Is The Single Use Plastic Photobooth) returned to Electric picnic  again this year to highlight the same festival-waste issues come up every year as EP are nowhere nearer to solving them. We believe that it is not simply down to the festival goers. Of course they all have personal responsibility when it comes to leaving no trace behind them, but the festival organisers must also lead by example and be held accountable for the generation of so much waste. They could incentivize festival-goers to bring their tents home by charging a tent tax, paid for at the point of sale and returned to them as they leave the campsite, tent in arms. This is a conversation we hear every year at EP however nothing changes and the situation just worsens.
With a capacity of 70,000 people, the Electric Picnic (EP) is Ireland's largest gathering of music & arts and it has established itself as one of the world's most unique festivals. However the growing environmental cost of hosting such a large-scale event needs to be addressed most notably with the increasing volume of tents abandoned each year. Using a large photograph (as a backdrop )of last year’s EP campsite AFTER everyone had left.... we invited festival goers to have their portrait taken and to help us to come up with solutions to end this campsite carnage!
We also started a petition as we  want those responsible for organising this festival to put procedures in place to ensure that this current level of plastic pollution at the EP campsites is not permitted to continue.
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my.uplift.ie/petitions/end-electric-picnic-campsite-carnage