Festivals are renowned for their ability to produce an obscene amount of litter which can cause harm for the environment. Glastonbury is more than aware of this and has opted to make a pledge to help combat littering at its festival this year.
It is asking all festival-goers to uphold the Green Pledge and promise to the 'love the Farm and leave no trace'. To help ensure that littering is kept to an absolute minimum, the Glastonbury festival site will have plenty of bins provided while also reminding customers that toilets are available so as to avoid any pollution in the nearby rivers.
Free water will also be provided via a number of water taps to encourage reusing water bottles. Read more: Glastonbury's simple Green Pledge is an integrated part of the festival's terms and conditions and anyone who pays to enter the site is automatically accepting its rules.
Summarising the initiative, Glastonbury said: "For Glastonbury Festival to be sustainable, we all have a duty to make sure the farmland on which it stands is looked after. "With over 200,000 people visiting and working across this sprawling site, reducing the impact Glastonbury Festival has on its general environment is a huge task.
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