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Images online show the rubbish left behind after the 2019 Glastonbury festival.
Our verdict
The images are of Glastonbury Festival; some of the images are of this year’s festival, although others are older.
Images online show the rubbish left behind after the 2019 Glastonbury festival.
The images are of Glastonbury Festival; some of the images are of this year’s festival, although others are older.
Multiple photos showing festivals covered in rubbish which are claimed to be from Glastonbury 2019 have been shared thousands of times on social media. The photos are captioned with criticism that a festival with a historically environmental spirit could allow littering.
Both images are of the Glastonbury Festival, although only one of the images is from the 2019 festival; the other (of a man sitting in a rubbish-strewn field) was taken in 2015 by a photographer from the Press Association.
Any large gathering of the size of Glastonbury generates a glut of litter—for example here are photos from after the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s wedding, and during Royal Ascot. There is usually rubbish left at Glastonbury festival ground, but festival organisers are prepared and attempt to combat and clear this.
Information on the festival’s “green” commitment is easily found on their website. They campaign for attendees to “leave no trace” by asking them to take their camping equipment home, use rubbish bins and recycle, use toilets and reusable water containers. The festival has also banned the sale of single-use plastic.
The festival also employs people and a number of charities provide volunteers who litter-pick during and after the festival. Many of the items collected during the tidy up effort, such as tents, are donated to charities, or properly recycled. You can see drone footage of the cleared farm here.
Other UK festivals employ similar cleanup methods.
And the festival has historically paused every few years to give the land and local environment a rest.
This article is part of our work fact checking potentially false pictures, videos and stories on Facebook. You can read more about this—and find out how to report Facebook content—here. For the purposes of that scheme, we’ve rated this claim as true as the pictures are of Glastonbury, although one is from several years ago, and the rubbish left by Glastonbury festival is tackled by organisers.
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