Glastonbury wants to eradicate the mountains of waste that it has to sort at the end of each festival MATT CARDY/GETTY IMAGESGlastonbury festival will ban the sale of single-use plastic bottles this year, it said yesterday. Plastic bottles will not be supplied backstage, in dressing rooms or to production and catering staff, according to its website. About 1.3 million bottles were used at the last festival, in 2017, undermining Glastonbury’s long partnerships with environmental groups such as Greenpeace and WaterAid. Emily Eavis, daughter of the Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis and a co-organiser of the festival at Worthy Farm in Pilton, Somerset, said: “We feel that stopping their sale is the only way forward. We are all fighting the fight against plastic, which is an enormous task but well overdue.

Source: The Times February 28, 2019 00:00 UTC