Every year, hundreds of tents and sleeping bags are left behind at summer festivals.
So this summer, a Hawke's Bay couple is going to gather the good ones, and ship them to people who desperately need them.
When it comes to summer festivals we're far from being tidy Kiwis.
Hundreds if not thousands of perfectly good tents and sleeping bags are abandoned every year.
"It looks like a bomb's gone off, there is just stuff everywhere," says The Tent Collectors founder Kate Robertson.
But one man's trash is another man's shelter. Tents are desperately needed in Europe, for refugees fleeing conflicts.
Robertson saw that need first-hand when she volunteered at a camp on the Greek island of Samos.
It was made to house 650 people, but ten times that - 6000 - live there.
"These people have absolutely no basic human rights. They have to line up for eight hours for one meal," she says.
"You have no running water, so they get given a 1.2-litre bottle and that's their water for the day - and we're in Greece, in 40C heat."
Then a fire in October destroyed hundreds of tents - people's homes.
So Robertson started a charity, The Tent Collectors, to send our festival waste to people who need it.
"Sleeping bags, tents and sleeping mats are the big three for us," she says.
The Collectors will be rummaging through the aftermath of at least five festivals this summer, grabbing what's worth salvaging, before cleaning it and sending it off to Greece.
"It was honestly just a home run, such an easy meeting," says Bay Dreams promoter Mitch Lowe. "If our waste can help people overseas, how can we say no to that?"
Bay Dreams estimates about a third of all its campers leave their tent behind. You can get one for under $20 - less than a tenth of the price of the festival ticket.
"Because they're so cheap these days people find it easy to just erect one and then instead of packing it down just get out of there," Lowe says.
"They are so cheap that we are encouraging consumption at a really high level without any regard for the impact it's having on the environment," Robertson adds.
She's set up a Givealittle to cover the cost of shipping the equipment to Greece - and she wants more help, so she can expand to more festivals.
"We need so many volunteers so anyone that's willing and happy to help we will take any of their time, any time," she says.
