Papertents for festivals – Video of the day

Billing themselves as “the revolution on the festival camping [sic]”, this Dutch company decided to tackle the issue of wasted tents after discovering that “one out of four people leave their tent behind on the various campsites worldwide”.

So they invented KarTent – a temporary form of accommodation, designed specifically for festivalgoers, made out of cardboard.

Each tent is large enough to sleep two people, although neither of you will have to do any of the set up, with the company bringing your enviro-friendly accom to the venue for you.
Then, because it’s cardboard, you get to decide whether you’d like to liven it up a bit by drawing, painting or throwing glitter all over the thing (although maybe not with glitter if you’re actually worried about the environment).

Once you’re done with it, it simply goes in the recycling bin – way better than ending up as more plastic destroying our oceans.