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Hundreds of tents left by festivalgoers despite pleas

BBC Drone footage of the Reading Festival site in Reading, with hundreds of tents left across a number of fields.BBC
The three-day festival finished on Sunday, but tens of thousands of people left on Monday

Many Reading Festival attendees ignored pleas to take their tents home with hundreds clearly visible across the site on Tuesday.

Festival Republic says on its website that its aim for the event was that no tents were left behind following the annual extravaganza, which was attended by about 100,000 people.

It said that fewer tents are being discarded than in previous decades, with two-thirds of them taken home from the Richfield Avenue site after 2025's festival.

The company has committed that all of the site will be returned to its natural state within a fortnight of the festival closing on 30 August.

It said it has seen "meaningful change" over abandoned tents in Reading and in Leeds, where it runs a sister festival over the August bank holiday weekend.

The organisers promised a Co-Op voucher for those who showed they were taking theirs home.

Another picture taken from a drone of the Reading Festival site, with lots of discarded tents at the site, with other buildings around.
About 100,000 people are thought to have attended this year's festival
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