Glastonbury; the multi-coloured, musical extravaganza has just come to an end after Kendrick Lamar wrapped things up with a powerful headline set on Sunday evening.
For a festival that holds its green policies dear and works hard to protect vulnerable habitats, ponds, streams, hedges and ditches by ensuring nature reserves are respected, it seems quite the contrast that festival-goers often seem to disregard the land and leave a trail of litter behind them.
After every major festival, the media coverage often continues well into the days after, showing images of overflowing bins, abandoned tents and rubbish strewn across the sweeping fields.
On Sunday, Emily Eavis herself asked Glastonbury to “PLEASE take everything home” with a tweet mid afternoon.
Emily said: "Thank you making this such a special @Glastonbury. If you're starting to think about packing up, then PLEASE take everything home with you. Let's leave this beautiful valley in the state that it deserves. Enjoy the rest of the Festival! #LoveTheFarm #LeaveNoTrace."
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Unfortunately it seemed this request fell on quite a few deaf ears as our reporters on the ground snapped pictures of rubbish left behind by revellers across the site.
Sharing a picture of a whiteboard with the words "Bye bye! Safe travels! Thank you for leaving no trace! See you next year!", TV and celebrity writer, Maisie Lillywhite said: "A message which has been repeated throughout the weekend, but carries some heavy irony and a hint of sadness with it this morning as people have left tents, camping chairs and other belongings/rubbish behind at Worthy Farm."
The messy aftermath certainly didn’t go unnoticed, a problem that the litter pickers unfortunately have to deal with.
Litter pickers tend to make their way across the site around 6am to completely clear the area, before most people are even awake.
It’s no mean feat and a significant job completed by dozens of volunteers who work tirelessly across the site during the five-day festival, the big clean-up on the Monday morning proving to be the hardest challenge of them all.
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