WATCH: Shocking level of mess at Electric Picnic campsites and 'vile' female urinals
A video from one of the Electric Picnic campsites shows ripped black bags, food packaging, alcohol boxes and drinks cans littered across the ground beside a number of tents.
As well as the mud worsening under heavy rain at Electric Picnic 2026, some of the campsites have been pictures strewn with litter, while the female urinals have not been a big hit with everyone at the festival.
A video from one of the campsites shows ripped black bags, food packaging, alcohol boxes and drinks cans littered across the ground beside a number of tents.
The clip of the scene on the Laois Live Facebook page has been viewed thousands of comments and drawn a large number of comments from viewers. While one person pointed out there wasn’t “a bin in sight,” others were quick to call out people for not cleaning up after themselves.
One person said: “Every year this happens and yet every year they keep wanting to make it bigger for more crowds to make an even bigger mess, wait til you see the amount of tents that'll be left behind and the amount of gear that will be put up in another week or so asking if anyone lost anything. It's getting worse every year.”
Another wrote: “Gen Z . Save the planet? Clear up after yourselves!”
However, a third pointed out: “It’s terrible but it’s not all EP attendees that leave a mess.”
Another person offered a way in which people who leave their rubbish behind could be punished: “Cordon off sections to pitch a tent, put a deposit of €100 per pitch, get someone to inspect it at end before leaving, if a mess, no deposit back.”
Meanwhile, there has been a mixed reaction to the new female urinals unveiled at Electric Picnic this week for the first time. While some hailed them as quicker than queuing for conventional toilets, others have been left shocked at the state revellers have left them in.
Taking to social media, Jenny O’Mahony posted a video of the inside of one of the urinals and asked, “does someone want to tell me how this actually works hygienically?”
She panned the camera down to the toilet area on the floor, showing a disgusting cubicle littered with toilet paper, mud and overflowing with water. She added: “It’s actually disgusting.”
A follower of Jenny’s labelled it as “vile” while another said, “supposedly meant to be the groundbreaking lol... they forgot woman need to wipe.”
A second comment read: “Oh my goodness, thank you for putting that up! I was wondering about these! Awful!”