A couple of things I noted from the festival:
Refunds
Applies to Denmark in general. Drink cans, and plastic and glass bottles can be returned for a 1 kr (~P8.40) refund. To them it's not a lot, but at a festival where you can get thousands of these, you could make a fortune out of collecting trash. There are several children and adults at the festival doing just that, making up for the steep 1475 kr (~P12,425) entrance ticket. If you're feeling generous, there were 700 refund collectors to give the empty cups to, and the proceeds would reach poor farmers in Malawi. The white cups in the photo aren't refundable, though, but these are handed out by crowd safety to the audience. Preventing dehydration, I guess.
Crowd safety
After tragedy struck at the Pearl Jam concert at the Orange stage in 2000, killing nine people, RF has been very serious about crowd safety. They devised a double barrier pit system that minimizes the possibility of the crowd rushing to the front and trampling audience members. The metal barriers guarded by the crowd safety staff are pretty high and even if you could climb over them, you would be caught before you can jump over both fences. It's a good preventive measure.
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