Allegedly “Green” Bumbershoot Crapoliciously Forces Concert-Goers To Throw Away Hundreds of Bottles of Water

Posted by roasty on September 1st, 2007
Filed in Entertainment, Music, News, Photos

Did you see Crowded House or The Shins at the allegedly “green” Bumbershoot Festival in Seattle on Saturday (9/1/07)?

If so, we’re certain you also saw this fine eco-unfriendly scene:

Bottled H20 flies into a dumpster
Just a small section of the piles and piles of tossed water bottles, most still partially full.

Look closely and you can see a full bottle as it’s about to land in the overflowing dumpster, meant not for the recycling station, but for the flippin’ dump. The only “green” thing going on here is the color of the dumpster!

Wasted H20
These photos were taken around 2:30pm Sat. 9/1/07 as the biggest crowd of the day was being herded in to an old high school football stadium that contained no working drinking fountains, nor easily-accessible potable water.

[EDITOR'S NOTE: apparently there were drinking fountains set up, but they were near the sides of the stage; this reporter was up in the stands where H20 sources were unseen.]

Entrants were required by Security to dispose of any bottled water or other bottled drinks they had, in a very TSA-like fashion, before entering the gates of aging Memorial Stadium, where the good bands were playing (Crowded House and The Shins today).

Heck, we were practically expecting to have to remove our shoes as we approached the gate.

This year, according to their website, Bumbershoot is using “a series of innovative and interactive strategies to make this year’s Bumbershoot the greenest ever!” (ORLY?)

Is the forcing of $35 per ticket paying customers to toss their bottles of water (throwing away what is arguably one of the most wasteful products being manufactured today) proof of a “greenest ever” Bumbershoot?

Or merely proof of the further TSA-ing, eco-unfriendly, hypocritical, Crapolicously wasteful police state the US is fast becoming?

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8 Responses to “Allegedly “Green” Bumbershoot Crapoliciously Forces Concert-Goers To Throw Away Hundreds of Bottles of Water”

  1. Allegedly Green Bumbershoot Crapoliciously Forces Concert-Goers To … Says:
    September 1st, 2007 at 9:53 pm

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  2. zevgoldman Says:
    September 2nd, 2007 at 10:31 am

    Green is the biggest business con job at work today. It will make the top four oil companies of the world, all European, look like amateurs.
    Check out being a conservationist and put this green hype behind you. It’s just big business with a pretty face.

  3. Second Life Loser » Blog Archive » Bottled water forbidden at Seattle festival Says:
    September 3rd, 2007 at 2:19 pm

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  4. theboywil Says:
    September 4th, 2007 at 8:05 am

    The stadium did contain working drinking fountains… There was a line of temporary ones installed at the front left hand side of the stage (not sure if there were any elsewhere too, as we used those…)

  5. admin Says:
    September 4th, 2007 at 8:12 am

    Since I had some little ones in tow, we sat in the stands. Couldn’t find any drinking fountains around there, and we weren’t about to venture into mosh pit lane to find some…oh well…

  6. Bumbershoot’s green efforts at OtisKimzey.com Says:
    September 4th, 2007 at 12:09 pm

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  7. ajfabb Says:
    September 4th, 2007 at 4:25 pm

    No doubt this is more excellent planning by OneReel, the “Nonprofit” production company that manages Bumbershoot. OneReel previously used their cash to attack the Seattle Monorail project (extension of the Seattle elevated train approved by voters four times). Anyone who bought their Bumbershoot tickets online in 2004 was sent an email with a bunch of FUD on the transit project (email me at ajfabb-2 at yahoo for details).

    Thanks to ding-dongs like OneReel, Seattle remains gridlocked in exhaust, especially during events like Bumbershoot.

  8. The Bygone Bureau » Bygone at Bumbershoot Says:
    September 5th, 2007 at 1:56 am

    [...] also did not allow water bottles into the stadium that housed the main stage. I’m not kidding. See here for more details. I joked that a good lawyer could mount a pretty solid class action against the [...]

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