44 years ago, to clean the park after the event
the band paid volunteers at the rate of an album
for each sack of rubbish collected, you can hear
about it here. At the time cynics surely scoffed
'Rubbish for rubbish', but with hindsight the idea
seems quite neat-back then albums were worth
quite a lot, and who knows how many of the records
given away extended the life of elderly Dansette record players?
Street food now comes with far more packaging.
than it did in 1969. If the idea were tried today
far more rubbish would be created, and more retrieved,
though more would be recycled. What exchange rate
would the performers set? What weight of crushed cans,
plastic bottles and other detritus per CD would a fan
have to collect to make it attractive to both parties?
How cherished would those CDs be afterwards?
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