Designed to combat festival waste, sporting goods shop Decathlon is offering customers who return their tents 100% of the value back as a gift card, or 50% back as cash.
The No Tent Left Behind initiative allows festival-goers to use a tent across the weekend and return it to a participating store in exchange for a cash refund or gift card. The amount customers will receive in return is dependent on the condition of the tent and applies only to Quechua brand tents and doesn’t include rooftop, trekking tents or polycotton tents of any kind.
Returned tents will be assessed, cleaned, and resold through Decathlon’s Second Life offering, allowing them to be used again and promoting more sustainable manufacturing practices.
“Our No Tent Life Behind scheme goes from strength to strength each year,” says Chris Allen, Sustainability Leader at Decathlon UK.
“What started as a small-scale initiative has become an important part of how we approach camping and festivals more broadly – encouraging customers to return used equipment, keep valuable materials in circulation, and give more products a second chapter through our Second Life programme.
This year, we’re helping customers’ pockets as well as our planet. With our new one-hour bank transfer service, we’re providing the flexibility and value needed to turn unused gear into new adventures.”
More information is available here.
