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assist with the clean-up operation. A range of containers and services were provided to site the week before the event and waste was managed throughout the event days and after the event for the immense post festival clean-up.
In order to operate safely and to ensure that the site was clean and tidy for the start of each day, our teams worked through the night on the days of the event itself, with
WADING THROUGH
WASTE, NOT MUD This year’s Glastonbury Festival attracted 175,000 revellers. Once the tents were packed up and the final festival goers went back to their day jobs, operation clean up was being orchestrated. For once, it wasn’t mud they had to wade through – here are some stark figures on just how much waste can
be generated in an enclosed area.
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collections being made during the early hours. The weather also played a part, with heavy rain causing all sorts of problems for the vehicles but, by using a variety of containers and vehicles, it was possible to clear the site of all the waste within 10 days of the event.
The post event clean up saw all the abandoned tents being cleared from site, along with tonnes of general waste, all of which was
6 weeks to clean up the 900 acre site
5,487 toilets to take away
1,300 recycling volunteers to clear up the site 15,000 oil drum bins to be emptied 160 skips on the site to be emptied
£780,000 estimated cost of disposing all the rubbish left at the festival
Roughly 6,500 sleeping bags, 9,500 roll mats, 3,500 air beds
and 400 gazebos were abandoned in 2009
863.32 tonnes of waste was recycled in 2008, including:
193.98 tonnes of composed organic waste 40 tonnes of chipped wood 54 tonnes of cans and plastic bottles
41 tonnes of cardboard (Source: The Independent)
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safely removed and transported to a nominated Materials Recycling Facility where the waste was subjected to a recycling programme to ensure the maximum amount of waste was recycled or re-used.
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