After the music and the fun, the festival’s massive clean-up begins
IT WAS briefly home to a population of 200,000 music fans, but now the clean-up operation after Glastonbury Festival 2017 has begun.
Highlights of the world’s most famous music festival in Pilton, Somerset, included Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Ed Sheeran, Stormzy, Katy Perry and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. The event has been the most political in its history, with Mr Corbyn addressing tens of thousands of revellers from the main Pyramid Stage and giving a talk at the Left Field tent.
But with the event now over, campers had until 6pm yesterday to leave the 900-acre site, while crew and stallholders are given a week to clear the property.
An 800-strong litter-picking crew began to clear the huge area of rubbish yesterday, with tractors carrying magnetic strips travelling across the fields. Workers will also carry out a fingertip search for rubbish, and the mission to convert the site back into a functioning dairy farm could take up to six weeks.
There will be no Glastonbury Festival in 2018 as it is a fallow year, but festival organiser Michael Eavis said it would be back in 2019. In 2020, the festival will celebrate its 50th year.