Last year’s Laneway Festival may have garnered the biggest turnout ever in their five-year history, but the event did earn some stern words from Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong too for being a total landfill.
The overwhelming amount of trash left behind on the lush landscapes of The Meadow post-festival were of wasteland levels, prompting PM Lee to express his disappointment at the legions of hipsters. He even compared their actions to an AFF Suzuki Cup match where Myanmar sports fans cleaned up after themselves by picking up the litter left behind at the National Stadium.
Timothy Chua Yi-Neng however wants things to be different this year when Grimes, Thundercat and more take the stage next Saturday. “There are times when trashy can be cool, but those times don’t include moments when trash has to be cleared by a group of cleaners or settles somewhere as pollutants,” he says.
As such, Chua created a Facebook page inviting all c Find a bin, put ’em in your bag, or eat ’em if you must, so long that The Meadows remain as clean as a Japanese street.
“We believe that together we can achieve an equally amazing feat at Laneway and leave The Meadows looking as awesome as it was at the start of the party,” says Chua.
