Latest Festival Flyer update from Glastonbury Festival
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For the first time, single-use plastic drinks bottles will not be available to purchase at this year’s Glastonbury Festival. They will also no longer be supplied or available in any of the Festival’s backstage, production, catering and dressing room areas.
Our partners Greenpeace estimate that, globally, up to 12.7 million tonnes of plastic end up in our oceans each year. Greenpeace advise that by far the best way to avoid plastic pollution is to reduce plastic usage. With more than one million plastic bottles sold at Glastonbury 2017, we feel that stopping their sale is the only way forward.
For those wishing to drink water – which we certainly do recommend! – we are, once again, encouraging all Festival-goers to use a reusable water bottle and refill it at any of the hundreds of free water taps around the Glastonbury site. We have a mains water supply from Bristol Water, with water of the same quality as your taps at home.
We are also tripling the number of WaterAid kiosks where you will be able to refill your bottle. Free drinking water will be available from all bars across the site. Meanwhile, canned soft drinks and canned water will be available to purchase from all traders who previously sold soft drinks in plastic bottles.
Although those coming to Glastonbury 2019 will not be prevented from bringing plastic bottles on to the site, we strongly encourage everyone to join the effort by bringing as little single-use plastic as possible.
Says Emily Eavis: "It's paramount for our planet that we all reduce our plastic consumption, and I'm thrilled that, together, we'll be able to prevent over a million single-use plastic bottles from being used at this year's Festival. I really hope that everyone – from ticket-holder to headliner – will leave Worthy Farm this year knowing that even small, everyday changes can make a real difference. It’s now or never."
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In India single use bottles are half as thin, and still work fine…. And get reused too..
Get the abandoned tent mountain sorted next!
Pity you no longer pay as much attention to detail when booking acts
Great idea but what happens to the gigantic amount of waste such as tents, gazebos etc that’s left behind?
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Kendal calling gave these out last year
Brilliant and if people don’t like it then they should question why they are coming and stay at home. Big Thumbs up from me!
This will hit the ice cream vans hard. 😂😂
Best drink alcohol then guys 👍🏽
Plastic price per ton = £40
Aluminium can price per ton = £800
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Hope you have lots of top up points especially if its a hot one. Heat exhaustion can be a killer.
Keep flying those acts in from around the world in private jets though 👌
Wow it’s taken you this long? And you proud of that?
Pretty sure all of the plastic bottles were 100% recyclable and therefore not single use – and use only a quarter of the C02 that cans do in production?
Do away with all packaging, then charge 20 quid for a plate and cup. Watch how the rubbish disappears.
Shambala have been doing this for several years
Well done Glastonbury!
Now to get the masses to pick up their tents and other crap after themselves…
As long as the vendors don’t charge the same price for 330ml cans as 500ml bottles
How can anybody find a negative in this is beyond me. Says a lot about people. Well done GF 👌👌
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Is anything being done to encourage people not to take plastic Glitter? I’m sure the animals eating off the land afterwards would thank you for it 🙏😊
To change any culture the big players need to take bold steps, this is exactly that. Glastonbury festival doing the right thing no matter the criticism as always
Great work! Stopping all the waste Pint cups everywhere is the next target surely? 👍🏼
I’ve never seen canned water.
This is why I’m not going
Well done , now to tackle the tents and glitter too. Keep it up
How about stopping the disposable plastic pop bands?
The response by Glastonbury on tackling their waste has been really really slow!!!
Single use paper cups and plates could also be addressed with introducing a scheme where people have to use their own, or pay a levy for a reusable item…
The ‘festival’ is now for tourists who turn the fields into what looks like a land-fill site with none of the respect that the original hippy type culture of yesteryear had.
Just the one JD bottle then Vanessa Hay ……I think not😂😂😂. Really looking forward to seeing you on Friday #3rdtimelucky
Take a leaf out of ‘beautiful days’ book. All food containers and cutlery biodegradable and appropriate bins everywhere. Recyclable bins for plastics etc