home having watched Ed Sheeran bring the event to a close on Sunday night. Pictures today showed the famous Worthy Farm fields strewn with rubbish while weary revellers were seen making their way out of the Somerset venue as those with rubbish bags moved in. The festival is due to take a 'fallow year' in 2018, a break that occurs every six years to allow the land to recover, although founder Michael Eavis suggested he would revoke that plan if a certain band agreed to perform. He said that he is 'already regretting' the decision to take a year out and, while he didn't reveal who the band is that could change his mind, he did add: 'It's not One Direction.
Glastonbury's £785,000 clean-up began in
earnest this morning as the last of the festival's 200,000 music fans
staggered home having watched Ed Sheeran bring the event to a close on
Sunday night.
Pictures today showed the
famous Worthy Farm fields strewn with rubbish while bleary-eyed
revellers were seen making their way out of the Somerset venue as
volunteers with rubbish bags moved in.
The
festival is due to take a 'fallow year' in 2018, a break that occurs
every six years to allow the land to recover, although founder Michael
Eavis suggested he would revoke that plan if a certain band agreed to
perform.
He said that he is 'already
regretting' the decision to take a year out and, while he didn't reveal
who the band is that could change his mind, he did add: 'It's not One
Direction.'
This
morning some 800 litter pickers were scouring the 900-acre grounds as
campers headed home. After five days of partying, festival goers are
estimated to have left behind some 57 tonnes of reusable items, 1,022
tonnes of recycling and a staggering 500,000 sacks of litter.
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