Glastonbury Festival, potentially leading to harming local wildlife.Before, during and after the festival’s 2019 edition, scientists monitored levels of drugs in the nearby River Whitelake, finding that the level of drugs in the river after the festival was high enough to potentially harm wildlife, including a rare species of eel.According to the new report, which you can read here, the amount of MDMA found flowing downstream in the river after the 2019 festival was 104 times higher than that going upstream.
Traces of cocaine were 40 times higher.Discussing the news, researcher Dan Aberg from Bangor University’s School of Natural Sciences told The Guardian: “Illicit drug contamination from public urination happens at every music.
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