As attendees from this week’s Glastonbury Festival settle back into their ‘pre-Glasto’ routines (alongside a huge comedown and nursing a probably sore head), the full extent of the clean-up operation has now been unveiled.
With 175,000 campers on-site during the 5-day event, coupled with some treacherously muddy conditions, little thought is [unfortunately] given to the post-Glastonbury clean-up. According to the Bath Chronicle however, the mass extent of the left-behind rubbish has now been revealed. Revellers left behind:
6,500 sleeping bags
5,500 tents
3,500 airbeds
2,200 chairs
950 rolled mats
400 gazebos (despite organisers asking campers not to bring gazebos)
Nine tonnes of glass (despite glass being banned from the site)
54 tonnes of cans and plastic bottles
41 tonnes of cardboard
66 tonnes of scrap metal
Additionally, it’s likely that around £780,000 will also be spent to clean up the fields, which may take up to six weeks in its entirety (and to get the land back to a fully-functional dairy farm).
So folks, keep that in mind when the pandemonium for next year’s tickets arrives…. keep your gazebos at bay, and remember to respect the farm (and leave no trace!).
