To think it is totally hypocritical of those people at Glastonbury

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To have cheered David Attenborough when he talked about saving the planet given the shit tip they leave the festival site in.

I picked up a great tent from Glastonbury one year...my friend couldnt be bothered to cart it off so i did...still using it now!
Glastonbury has a green message but it is primarily a party festival.

Yeah, but the Cure were bloody awesome, right?

Yes wern't they:) And to think a pirate radio station i had a hand in back in 1981, now a large radio station, was playing their tunes waay back then.

Good music never dies :)

Agreed?..

I can't believe some of the replies on this thread 🙄 I totally agree with you OP. Of course there will be some rubbish at an event this size, it's inevitable. But people leave tents, chairs, air beds and goodness knows what else, which all ends up in a landfill site.

This video makes me want to weep 😢

We left this morning. The campsite was spotless, the bins there sorted carefully into waste and recycling. Yes, there was lots of rubbish left on the floor at the pyramid etc, but I think far less than in previous years, and great to see so little plastic.

I just feel a bit sad that an event that is so positive, so full of love, and run by such nice people, is getting stick for not being perfect. Surely, starting by talking about something is the way that change begins? Why does everything have to be fights and name calling these days? Just live and let live.

But they don't have enough bins to cater for all rubbish, and the site is always properly cleared afterwards.

The lager can on the ground on Saturday won't still be there a week later. It was just the Daily Mail issue of the Day for the readers to get anger boners over.

But they don't have enough bins to cater for all rubbish

So take it home with you then.

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If you bring it in with you, you take it home with you. That was how festival-going worked when I did them. I can't imagine how attitudes seem to have changed since then.

It's awful. The whole "someone else is being paid to do it" mindset.

Glastonbury is very much better than other festivals for this, all caterers onsite use compostable plates and cutlery, and all bins have recycling and compost bins next to them.

Latitude and Hay both do all that too. They have reusable cups with a deposit, and a deposit scheme for bottles (kids go round picking them up at Latitude to get the deposit back).
I have been to both of those and I would imagine other festivals do it too.

Some of the tents in the video are identical to ones you see on a normal campsite that people carefully pack up to use next time. I don't understand why, if you brought the tent, you wouldn't want to take it home with you.

The majority of people do take everything home. Not one of the people I went with (15+) left anything behind and we recycled appropriately whilst there. Unfortunately there are a few people who couldn't care less but they probably weren't the ones watching Attenborough. It's still much less waste than at other festivals too.

I love thats it's held on a working dairy farm and there are lots vegan and alternative stuff there. Surely if you were that against dairy you wouldn't support a dairy farm?

I was at Glastonbury, and for the most part it was clean. Yes, after the main stage acts there were cans and paper cups left behind, but you physically can't get to a bin at that point. People were going around earlier in the day collecting empty cans from people and there were very few plastic bottles left - they weren't on sales so people obviously brought them.

Someone mentioned confetti earlier on - it's all paper and at least one of the main stage acts used a specific type that dissolves when it touches water. The first bit of rain that touches it will clear it completely.

In general it's the cleanest festival I've ever been to. And as for banging on about green issues, the person I went with said she was more open to thinking about her impact on the planet after being there. So at least there's that positive.

@Kitkatiom couldn't agree more 😂