This year, the Sziget Festival audience donated more tents to charity and left less behind

Since 2018, the Hungarian Maltese Charity Service has been collecting tents, mattresses and other equipment left behind in the area after the Sziget Festival has closed, and the NGO uses these in children’s camps and to provide care for homeless people. In 2025, the Charity Service delivered almost 300 tents, 400 mattresses, 100 sleeping bags, as well as numerous polyfoam beds, blankets, towels, chairs, tarpaulins, tables and pillows, a total of about 2,000 items.

To reduce the amount of items left behind, guests arriving with tents are required to leave a deposit, which is returned upon departure when they remove the equipment from the area, and also when they hand it in at the collection points. This year, for the first time, those who did not leave it on the area, but handed in a tent that they did not want to take with them from the festival, were able to get their deposit back at the Hungarian Maltese Charity Service. This year, more people handed in equipment at the collection points than before, and significantly fewer items were left abandoned in the area.

The tents, beds, tarpaulins and other equipment left behind were collected by 120 volunteers of the Maltese Charity Service on August 12, after the festival closed, on the Shipyard Island. The equipment taken from the collection points and collected during the clean-up filled a 7.5-ton truck and four vans. In addition, an additional 3.5-ton vehicle was filled with torn, no longer usable tents, the latter of which will be utilized by a partner organization of the Sziget festival, which will make bags, backpacks and other accessories with the festival logo.