As the dust settles and the hangovers pass after , it’s back to work and normality for the 200,000 festival goers who attended. While the partiers bid farewell to the UK’s biggest music festival of the year, local residents have teamed up to clear the 900-acre farm of litter. The clean-up of Worthy Farm began hours after US R&B singer SZA closed the festival with her headlining performance on the Pyramid stage.
The 2,500 strong team of litter pickers have been tasked with clearing the eye-watering amount of waste left by the dedicated music fans across the five-day festival. Now Andy Rock, who is in charge of recycling waste collected at Glastonbury, has lifted the lid on some of the most bizarre items abandoned at the site. Speaking to PA on Monday (July 1), he explained that this year his team of 300 people clearing the Pyramid stage had found “nothing particularly unsavoury” but did come across a pair of unusual shoes.
He said: “I think somebody did leave behind some high-heeled crocodile skin shoes yesterday, but that was the strangest thing we found yesterday. “I’m not sure why anybody brought those to Glastonbury [Festival], but mainly it’s the stuff you see around us. It’s cans, bottles, paper cups, and virtually everything we pick up gets recycled.
But previous years haven’t been quite so tame, as former employee Andy Wilcott revealed to . Looking back over his time clearing the farm, he revealed his team were often confronted with completely inexp.