Photos of broken tents, muddied boots and rubbish left behind by SITG festival goers prompted the calls. 🤔 Do you agree?
Over the weekend a total of 50,000 attendees descended on the Northern Byron Parklands for the three-day music event, while campers were homed at the Byron Events Farm.
“Every year there’s entire tents, Eskys, chairs and all sorts of perfectly usable equipment just dumped because grubs lack the brain cells to know how to pack it up or take it to the donation spots,” the comment read.Splendour in the Grass grounds pictured today, Monday. Picture: Savannah Pocock Another local said the festival rubbish had even made its way into Byron Bay’s town centre, 25km from the festival site.
“The land is the home of endangered ecological communities, 28 threatened species and is the site of significant aboriginal cultural heritage,” she wrote.
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