A week to remember down at the farm

A MAJOR clean-up operation at Glastonbury Festival has begun the work to return the site from a pop-up city of 200,000 music fans to a Somerset dairy farm, writes Casey Cooper-Fiske.

- Casey Cooper-Fiske.

The festival’s clean-up team began picking up thousands of discarded items including paper cups and food containers as festival-goers began to make their way home, leaving the festival in a steady stream.

Cleaners tackled over-flowing bins and big items such as camping chairs and blow-up mattresses, as well as slippers, flip-flops and shopping bags.

Glastonbury will not return in 2026, as the festival enters a fallow year to give the ground time to recover before the next event takes place in 2027.

Organiser Emily Eavis told the on-site newspaper, Glastonbury Free Press, she had a “huge list of things” to improve the festival ahead of its next iteration.

She said: “We're always looking to make it better. The detail is critical. Even just a small touch - like putting a new hedge in - can make a real difference.

“And that's what fallow years are for: you lay the ground to rest and you come back stronger.”