The Electric Forest festival wrapped up last weekend, but staff is still hard at work. It's an annual event that draws thousands, and with those thousands, comes a pretty big mess to clean up afterwards. A job that still isn't done, a week after festivities wrapped up.
Tons of trash remains weeks after the partygoers have gone home, but between the camping and dancing in the sun a message to keep it clean may have gotten lost.
"Now that the people are gone there's just a lot of debris everywhere I see crews picking it up. But, It's a big task," says Randy Smith, Rothbury resident.
For the people who live nearby the time it takes to clean up after the festival isn't anything new.
"We see it every year. It's out there for weeks more this year than normally and it's just a nuisance and it smells sometimes when you get to it," says John Turpin, Rothbury resident.
Neighbors we spoke with say the cleanup can last weeks.
"We saw crews last night they were actually even working on the Fourth of July down here picking stuff up and tearing things a part," says Smith.
Within time the Double JJ Resort, once crawling with thousands of festival goers, then trash, will be clean and back in shape in just a few weeks.
"Well there is a lot of trash...there is a lot of trash on the grounds and you know a whole weeks worth of campers and they clean it up. Give it a week there won't be so much as a cigarette butt out in any of those fields," says Holly Hallack, Double JJ Resort employee.
Clean up of the camp grounds is left up to Electric Forest staff not the double JJ Resort.
I reached out to the Electric Forest PR team but haven't heard back yet.
Bob
What does you expect from a bunch of potheads and druggies.
Robert Griffin
I saw quite a number of locals scavenging the area, getting free food, beverages, and camping supplies from the “mess.” They certainly weren’t complaining. Plus, there are people who are paid to clean this mess.
Potheads and druggies, sure, that applies to many of the attendees. But regardless of drug use or not, the mess left behind is insignificant compared to the amount of money going to nonprofit organizations that are partnered with Electric Forest.
Educate yourself.
Arthur J Buckman
First of all, they are not all druggies and potheads. Do not try to insert yourself into something that you have never experienced. Secondly, learn proper grammar. It is “What DO you expect.” Not “What DOES.” Makes me think you may not be well educated, and just like to put down anything that you do not understand.
Bud V
How has it been over for a week when the guests departed on July 2nd?
Kevin
Stop reporting lies, Faux News. The entire site is clean. This is just a jab trying to restrict future festivals.
GGWG
Damn Hippies
Matt
Clearly you have never been to a festival of this type. I went for my 2nd year, and Electric forest staff does a great job with tying to limit the trash that is left. As well as many campers to collect their trash, an try as best they can to keeep it in one pile. Sadly trash cans do fill up fast.
But of course skip over the fact, that the do try to recycle, hense the multi colored cans. That we do make huge donations to food drives, that there is a eco group on the grounds both weekends supporting a clean festival grounds. Please do more education, or heck try and experience it once, and descover how much of properganda this new report really is.