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A small business in Sheffield is giving a new life to abandoned tents from music festivals by upcycling them into clothes. Lauren Mason and Benjamin Harman co-founded Retribe to turn the waste into sustainable outfits after helping to collect discarded tents at Creamfields and Leeds festivals last summer. The Association of Independent Festivals estimates that 250,000 tents are left at music festivals each summer, with most being sent straight to landfill. For this year's event, Leeds Festival has partnered with sports and outdoors equipment store Decathlon to run a tent hiring service, and revelers will be able to return tents on site.