Dig down through the turf and scrape at the top soil, however, and another picture emerges. Amid the dirt, you will find aluminium beer can pull tabs, fragments of bottle glass and plastic.
But this is no ordinary rubbish. On this patch of ground 50 years ago, music history was made. More than , music fans and hippies gathered here in for what would become a legendary weekend of music and revelries. But the festival and its audience left another enduring legacy behind when the music ended — mountains of rubbish.
The trash cans provided by the organisers proved woefully inadequate for the huge numbers of people who turned up, as did the toilet facilities. Piles of bottles, beer cans, discarded sleeping bags, broken tents, plastic sheeting, newspapers and human waste were abandoned and trampled into the muddy quagmire.
It seems astonishing that an event so steeped in the environmental movement at the time should leave an environmental scar that is still visible 50 years later. But as one of the first big music festivals, Woodstock set the tone for many of those that would try to follow in its footsteps.
Waste is now one of the biggest problems facing modern music festivals. Each of the major music festivals in the US, such as Coachella, Stagecoach and Desert Trip, generate around tonnes of solid waste every day , while an estimated 23, tonnes of waste are produced by music festivals in the UK each year — about the same as weight as 78 fully loaded Boeing Jumbo Jets.
To put that in perspective — the average household in the UK produces around one tonne of waste a year. Most festivals employ armies of litter pickers to help clean up at the end of their events, and enormous waste management operations swing into action once the revellers go home. Drinks and food are sold in disposable plastic cups, bottles and food containers, along with enormous amounts of plastic cutlery. Festivalgoers discard wristbands, fancy dress clothing, glitter, ponchos, toiletries , sleeping bags, mats and tents all made from polymers that can persist in the environment for decades if not centuries.
Some of the rubbish left at Woodstock in can still be found on the site today Credit: Getty Images. As a result, many of the major festivals in the US and Europe are rethinking the impact they are having on the environment. Most notably, Glastonbury has for the first time banned the sale of single-use plastic drinks bottles. The festival, which attracts around , people, sold more than a million plastic bottles in Audiences and artists will be encouraged to refill reusable water bottles.
Soft drinks and water will also be sold in aluminium cans, which the festival says are easier to collect and recycle. It follows a ban on non-compostable plates, cups, straws and cutlery at previous Glastonbury festivals. She says the festival is aiming to ban the sale of all single-use plastics on its site over the next two to three years. A number of other festivals have taken similar steps to remove single-use plastics from their events.
The music keeps playing if the ground is kept clean. But despite this and a number of other recycling initiatives, it saw the amount of waste it sent to landfill increase dramatically last year. They have already banned plastic cups and bottles , instead selling the audience a reusable cup or bottle they can bring back to the bar for refills.
View Instalment Plan Options. Helping Download Festival goers carry their belongings and pitch their tents. Answering questions about Download Festival performances and line-ups. Reporting any problems such as a build-up of litter or faulty facilities. Keeping an eye on the Download Festival campsites from the fire towers.
Helping out with various roles across the Download Festival site including pedestrian and vehicle gates, wristband exchanges, keeping an eye on facilities, monitoring stages and walkways. Apply to volunteer. Please note: Download Festival will contain acts unsuitable for children Parents may be asked to provide ID with proof of age if the child appears to be over 12 but holding a Child Ticket.
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