Festivals are renowned for their ability to produce an obscene amount of litter which can cause harm for the environment.
Glastonbury is more than aware of this and has opted to make a pledge to help combat littering at its festival this year. It is asking all festival-goers to uphold the Green Pledge and promise to the 'love the Farm and leave no trace'.
To help ensure that littering is kept to an absolute minimum, the Glastonbury festival site will have plenty of bins provided while also reminding customers that toilets are available so as to avoid any pollution in the nearby rivers. Free water will also be provided via a number of water taps to encourage reusing water bottles.
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Glastonbury's simple Green Pledge is an integrated part of the festival's terms and conditions and anyone who pays to enter the site is automatically accepting its rules. Summarising the initiative, Glastonbury said: "For Glastonbury Festival to be sustainable, we all have a duty to make sure the farmland on which it stands is looked after.
"With over 200,000 people visiting and working across this sprawling site, reducing the impact Glastonbury Festival has on its general environment is a huge task. And it is one which we are fiercely devoted to.
"But we simply can’t do it without you.As well as accepting the Festival’s terms and conditions of entry when paying your balance, you were required to sign our ‘Love the Farm, Leave no Trace’ pledge."
Here is a Glastonbury's official tips on how to protect the environment while at the festival:
- Please use the toilets provided. Peeing on the land or in the rivers contaminates the local water supply, killing wildlife and seriously compromises the future of the Festival.
- Please use our recycling bins. It is not okay to drop litter on the ground. Help us by placing your waste into the correct recycling bins.
- Please only use what you need. If every Festival-goer used four napkins instead of one, there would be an extra 450,000 napkins wasted unnecessarily.
- Take your tent and equipment home with you. Nothing should be considered disposable so please only bring equipment that is built to last.
- Please use public transport, cycle or car-share to Glastonbury Festival. Car exhaust is still the greatest contributor to global climate change. Join the 40 per cent of Festival-goers that travel to the Festival by public transport and help to reduce our carbon footprint.
- Please bring a reusable water bottle. These can be filled for free at all of our taps and WaterAid kiosks across the Festival site.
- Please use water responsibly. Turn off taps and help us use water efficiently.
- Please do not bring in glass bottles or other prohibited items such as paper lanterns. They cause fires and harm the cattle that live on the land.
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