The party is definitely over as 1,300 volunteers start the clean-up at rubbish-strewn Glastonbury.
Despite the weekend’s environmental theme, litter – including abandoned tents and blow-up mattresses – covered the 900-acre site at Worthy Farm in Somerset yesterday.
But a ban on selling single-use plastic bottles at the bash, headlined by Stormzy, The Killers and The Cure, had cut waste dramatically.
Music fans were urged to bring reusable bottles and there were 850 water points and 37 WaterAid refill kiosks.
Sir David Attenborough, 93, took to the Pyramid Stage on Sunday to praise revellers for using less plastic, saying: “That is more than a million bottles of water that have not been drunk by you. Thank you.”
Festival co-organiser Emily Eavis, 40, said: “We’ve made so many positive strides with our green campaigns this year.
“It’s incredible there will be a million fewer plastic bottles for the planet to deal with because we stopped selling them.
“People are starting to see how important it is to treat the land with respect and to stop living a disposable lifestyle.”
The Love the Farm, Leave no Trace pledge, launched in 2016, led to an 81% drop in the number of tents left in 2017.
A G4S security guard, in his 60s, working at the Glastonbury Festival was found dead in his tent on Sunday.
