Concert rubbish dismays cleaners
While the weekend's two Fleetwood Mac concerts blew fans' minds nothing blew away the sea of rubbish they left behind.
It took 15 volunteers from Girl Guiding Taranaki more than four hours on Sunday and five yesterday to clean up the piles of trash concert-goers left at the TSB Bowl of Brooklands.
"It was just a sea of rubbish," said Stefny Logan, the regional co-ordinator for Girl Guiding Taranaki.
"It was bad, it was absolute chaos. It is the worst I have ever seen it and it was covering the entire ground."
Girl Guiding Taranaki also cleans up other community concerts including Womad and Ms Logan said the filth left behind from the weekend was incredibly disappointing.
"We thought members of the public would have been more on to it," she said.
The group do the messy work as part of their fundraising efforts and Ms Logan says while they are pleased to get the opportunity from the New Plymouth District Council, they did not expect such clutter from a more adult audience.
"It was really sad that people hadn't picked up after themselves, and we are not talking about young people. We are talking about a more mature audience that went."
She says the crowd at Womad definitely pays more attention to the environmental impact and follows festival policy with more care.
"Over the weekend we lost count of how many black bags of rubbish we filled because we had to start emptying them. There were hundreds."
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