The Gloom of Glastonbury vs Environment friendly

The Glastonbury festivities have recently once again come to an end after 5 days of prominent partying. Hosting the likes of Adele, Disclosure, Muse, Skepta and many more artists, approximately 135 000 ravers and music lovers assembled together on the fields around Glastonbury for a show to remember.

In case you didn’t know, Glastonbury is located in the rainy England which can account for some muddy and gloomy conditions…

festival-goers showed up to promptly leave behind approximately 1,022 tonnes of recycling, 57 tonnes of reusable items, endless amounts of lawn chairs and so 500 000 bags worth of garbage

What was done:

The cleanup operation consisted of 1800 cleaners covering more than 4 million square meters of festival land which gives each cleaner approximately 2023 square meters to clean. Moreover, masses of birds gathered to the scene for their own job of scavenging left overs which is another pain for the garbage collectors. Feel bad for the garbage crew really.

So what’s to conclude? Can festivals be made more sustainable and more environment friendly? Will festival-goers ever learn to throw away their garbage where it belongs?

The answer is yes! It happens in Romania at UNTOLD Festival in Cluj were the people care about the environment and they recycle as much as possible.

Check the image below. It is 8.00 AM in the second day of the festival in 2015. Check how clean is the The Arena and the total amount of garbage. Not bad huh? After a party with 150.000 people….

Untold Festival Environment Friendly