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

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

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!

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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