lil-minx92 Posted July 1, 2019 Share Posted July 1, 2019 Imagine the environmental cost of putting Glastonbury (or any big festival) on.. All the infrastructure shipped to the site for 3 days, then shipped back 200,000 people driving to the site and back 1000's of acts jetting in from all around the world for a one hour set. All for a bit of hedonistic entertainment for us selfish humans... It would be interesting to know the carbon emissions one Glastonbury Festival creates... Amazing festival though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whiteowl Posted July 1, 2019 Share Posted July 1, 2019 Not sure hypocritical is the right word. If it was a conference on climate change or something like that then yes that would be hypocritical but I'm not sure music festivals have a requirement to be climate friendly 🤔 Agree with the last bit though, great festival! 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithy266 Posted July 1, 2019 Share Posted July 1, 2019 Yeah, but they didn't use any plastic bottles... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ads36 Posted July 1, 2019 Share Posted July 1, 2019 (edited) 200,000 people - about the same as 4 football matches. except, running for 3 days, so make it 12 matches. but maybe Glastonbury-goers had to travel a bit further, so let's add a bit. using my new standard-measure (1 football match), Glastonbury has the same carbon-footprint as 1 premiership football team. Edited July 1, 2019 by ads36 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Top Cats Hat Posted July 1, 2019 Share Posted July 1, 2019 Glastonbury has being supporting Greenpeace for nearly 40 years now, long before environmentalism was hip and trendy. Without Greenpeace we’d almost certainly have no Extinction Rebellion, no council recycling and no government pledges to reduce carbon emissions so it could be argued that Glastonbury’s green credentials are way above most organisations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alchresearch Posted July 1, 2019 Share Posted July 1, 2019 There was a green pledge this year: Here are the usual day after pics of all the rubbish: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7199689/The-great-Glastonbury-clean-begins-rubbish-str.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melthebell Posted July 1, 2019 Share Posted July 1, 2019 2 minutes ago, alchresearch said: There was a green pledge this year: Here are the usual day after pics of all the rubbish: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7199689/The-great-Glastonbury-clean-begins-rubbish-str.html But it does get tidied not left Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinfoilhat Posted July 1, 2019 Share Posted July 1, 2019 It goes to show that even with the best of intentions, scruffy ******** will be scruffy ********. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaffa1 Posted July 1, 2019 Share Posted July 1, 2019 (edited) 7 minutes ago, melthebell said: But it does get tidied not left What about all the rubbish, plastic and even tents that were left last year. Including prams. Edited July 1, 2019 by jaffa1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinfoilhat Posted July 1, 2019 Share Posted July 1, 2019 1 hour ago, lil-minx92 said: Imagine the environmental cost of putting Glastonbury (or any big festival) on.. All the infrastructure shipped to the site for 3 days, then shipped back 200,000 people driving to the site and back 1000's of acts jetting in from all around the world for a one hour set. All for a bit of hedonistic entertainment for us selfish humans... It would be interesting to know the carbon emissions one Glastonbury Festival creates... Amazing festival though! Option b for all these festivals is to build big permanent structures - think of all the concrete! The temporary roads for example, get used for all sorts of events. Festival attendees could make more of an effort. But I suspect a trip down to Glasto would leave less of a carbon footprint than a 5 trip to Ibiza. Just now, jaffa1 said: What about all the rubbish, plastic and even tents that were left last year. There wasn't a Glasto last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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