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Hundreds Volunteer To ‘Love The Farm
And Leave No Trace’ Hundreds of volunteers are currently undertaking an epic, six-week project to clean up the site of iconic Glastonbury Festival.
The world famous music festival – the largest in the UK – ran from the 26-28th of June, and as the last of the revellers left the site, around 1,650 tonnes of waste was left to be cleaned up from the 900-acre site.
One of the key principles of the festival is “Love The Farm, Leave No Trace”, as visitors are encouraged clear up their own rubbish as they leave. But thousands of sleeping bags, tents, airbeds, and camping chairs still needed clearing from Worthy Farm.
Now, around 800 litter-picking volunteers are undertaking the
Japan’s Bullet Trains Cleaned In Just Seven Minutes
One of the fastest trains in the world also receives one of the fastest cleans, as Japan’s bullet trains undergo a thorough clean in just seven minutes.
A video, made by American journalist Charli James, has been doing the rounds online in recent weeks, showing the amazing team of cleaners at work.
The bullet trains, or ‘Shinkansen’, travel at speeds of up to 320 km/h,
painstaking job of cleaning up the site before it returns to its day job as a working dairy farm.
Volunteer litter pickers are offered free tickets to the festival as an incentive, but will walk on average 15 to 20 miles a day to clear up the discarded rubbish and empty bins across the site.
On top of the leftover camping gear that needed removing, the volunteers will need to sift through around 54 tonnes of cans and plastic bottles, 41 tonnes of cardboard and 66 tonnes of scrap metal.
Tractors will also comb the farmland with magnetic strips to pick up any wayward tent pegs – a particular danger to grazing cows.
Glastonbury Festival prides itself on its green policies, and organisers claim that around 60% of the waste left behind will be recycled.
A spokesperson for the festival added: “Thank you to everyone who has tidied their camping pitch and taken everything home. We really do appreciate it.”
around so that they face the correct direction for the next trip.
and more than 320 of these trains will pass through Tokyo station every day.
Their crack team of cleaners will work on about 20 cars per shift, and according to James’ video, they have an average age of 52.
Each cleaner takes on a car of 100 seats, and will clear each row in around 12 seconds, cleaning windowsills, luggage racks and individual tray tables. They then use a ‘secret button’ to turn the seats
Once the cleaners have completed their job, they exit the cars, line up alongside the train and bow to passengers on the platform, showing the great deal of pride that they have in their work.
Speaking to Quartz (
qz.com) James said that this final act was what particularly interested her while making the film: “It was really interesting to me that, even though it is a cleaning job, they take a lot of pride in their work.” She added that when she asked the cleaners’ boss why they bowed at the end of a shift, he didn’t understand why she was asking the question.
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