ECO-PIONEERS
Since its launch in 1970, Glastonbury Festival has worked hard to minimise its impact on the environment and spread the green message. Green issues coordinator Lucy Brooking Clark tells Magali Robathan how it’s still pushing boundaries today
GREEN FIELDS
What does your job involve? My job is to co-ordinate Glastonbury Festival’s green initiatives and push the environmental agenda. I concen- trate on the areas where we have the most environmental impact and look at ways of lessening that impact and ensuring we are more sustainable.
What areas did you focus on for the 2010 festival? One of the big problems we’ve had is festival-goers abandoning their tents and camping equipment at the end of the festival. People think the stuff they leave will go to a charity and get reused, but that’s not the case – most of it ends up in landfill sites. 2007 was a very wet, muddy year, and lots of people left their tents. It was a big problem, and since then we’ve been trying to undo the damage and communicate to people that they have a responsibility for their belong- ings. We are trying to say to people: Don’t just buy the cheapest tent,
because it won’t last. Buy a good tent and reuse it. In 2010 we used the big screens to communicate this message – we showed the aftermath of the festi- val, with all the abandoned tents, and flashed up the figures showing the number of tents that got left the pre- vious year. This campaign made a big difference – in previous years there were around 5,000 tents left on the site, and in 2010 there were only about 700 to 800 left, so the mes- sage is getting through. We also introduced more compost toilets and more solar showers in 2010, which were a big success.
What other environmental successes have you had? The issue of water and sewage is a major one for us. With more than 175,000 people on site during the festival weekend, we create a lot of sewage and use a lot of water! Prior to 2010, we had to transport all of our sewage up to Avonmouth,
Worthy Farm, the site of Glastonbury Festival, now has the UK’s biggest privately-owned solar power station. The team (above) unveiled the new system in November 2011. It features 1,100 solar photovoltaic panels.
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