As the hoopla for this year’s Glastonbury Festival left, the usual images of the site’s green fields littered with trash began appearing online.
But photos from the festival’s aftermath show that June’s amount of debris appears to be down from the previous year, when it looked like a scene from a dystopian movie set.
Images that show quick clearing of fields and far fewer litter, abandoned tents and camping chairs on the ground than those taken in previous years suggest promising progress. I’m here.
However, it was not immediately clear if this was due to increased environmental awareness among festival-goers or an increase in litter picking throughout the weekend.Glastonbury says Over 1,000 Recycling Volunteers Helps organize your site.
Organizer murmured Post-event Monday photo showing a clean field and captions in front of the Pyramid Stage.
A five-day music festival that transforms a field in Somerset into a makeshift city of 200,000 people typically generates more than 2,000 tons of waste.
Glastonbury has a long history of progressive environmental policies, encouraging festival-goers to ‘love the farm, leave no trace’. In recent years, however, we have stepped up our efforts to address our waste and carbon footprint.
In 2019, we banned the sale of plastic bottles and now only allow compostable or reusable plates and cutlery, including straws.
About half of all waste generated at Glastonbury Festival is reused or recycled, and it is estimated that the site composts more food waste than the national average.
Abandoned tents at music festivals used to be a serious problem. The false belief that they were donated to charity.
But in 2019, before the pandemic, Glastonbury Festival was last held by organizers Emily Eavis said 99.3% of all tents were taken homeindicating a change in attendee behavior.
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2019, scientists found High levels of illegal drugs such as cocaine and ecstasy were detected in the river running through the site, endangering fish and other wildlife.
