Glastonbury Festival seeks Worthy Warriors who love the farm

Glastonbury Festival 2016

Wednesday 22nd to Sunday 26th June 2016
Worthy Farm, Pilton, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, BA4 4AZ, England MAP
£228 - SOLD OUT

Daily capacity: 203,000

With under 2 weeks to go until the gates open at Glastonbury Festival the Festival is seeking helpers to keep the event as green as possible, and help spread the 'Love The Farm, Leave No Trace' message. For those who have a ticket it's a chance to help in ensuring the Festival's attendees respect the fact Worthy Farm is a working farm. Already a new home for it is being considered and yet more waste could just tip the balance in the event no longer being held where it has been for the last 45 years.

Worthy Warriors will help remind Festival goers to take all their belongings home when they leave the farm, and try to leave no trace of having been at the Festival except for the memories. All attendees can help by encouraging people to use the bins provided and spread the message of ‘love Worthy Farm, leave no trace’ wherever and whenever on site.

The Festival will also be reminding people of the issue wuth pollution from pee, litter and cigarette butts that can cause environmental damage, and again puyt the event's future in danger.

Worthy Warriors will be working alongside the campsite stewards, helping them hand out recycling and bin bags in the campsite and to encourage other people to keep their area clean and take their belongings home.

If you have a ticket for this year’s Festival and you’d like to be a Worthy Warrior, you can register here!

Organisers are trying to raise awareness of the terrible state that Worthy Farm is left in when everyone goes home after the Festival. Abandoned camping equipment and rubbish blight the beautiful green pastures of the farm.

The Festival is committed to enhancing the environment through their operations wherever possible, and minimising any negative impact. The Festival also commits to maintaining the rich and diverse environment that has evolved through alternative land usage. Holding a festival once a year in the middle of the growing season prevents the use of environmentally damaging conventional farming practices which would have a more intrusive impact on the ecology.

There are 1,300 recycling volunteers, 1,200 work for a ticket and the other volunteer for their nominated charity like WaterAid, Kiota and Bhopal Medical Appeal. The money that they earn gets donated to the charity they are working for. Without them we wouldn’t be able to achieve the recycling rate that we reach.

It costs us £780,000 to dispose of all the rubbish left at the Festival. That’s £780,000 less to Water Aid, Greenpeace or Oxfam – the main recipients of any profits made by Glastonbury. With £780,000, Water Aid can enable 52,000 people to access to safe water, improve hygiene and sanitation. The Festival are doing their bit and festival goers are asked to do theirs too when they leave, take all camping gear home and put all rubbish in the bin bags provided by campsite stewards. Even just five minutes of effort from each person at the Festival would make a HUGE difference.

They ask attendees to not abandon camping equipment like airbeds, roll mats, chairs, blankets and gazebos. Think responsibly when you are packing your bags to come to Glastonbury, don’t bring items that you won’t be able to take back home again.

Campers must remember to remove all your tent pegs from the ground. This is really important because any left behind can get imbedded in the ground and when the fields get rotavated, the metal pegs get chopped-up into small pieces, and if the cows eat them they could die.

The water that come from the taps is heavily monitored and tested twice daily, it is very safe to drink and the Festival encourages people to drink the tap water and reduce their consumption of bottled water. This is to cut back on the mountain of plastic bottles that a left at the end, remember to re-use bottles if you bring them.

Remember that you have the energy to do multiple trips back to your car on the Wednesday when you are feeling fresh but come the Monday morning after 5 days of partying and having fun energy levels are very low.

There will be 40,000 very well signposted and beautifully painted bins (colour-coded for recycled and other rubbish) virtually everywhere on site for rubbish. On entering the site stewards will hand you a black bag and a green bag – and more are available for camper's rubbish to be disposed of as it's made.

Festival goers are asked to:

Bring your own refillable water bottle or buy one from a water kiosk on site. Remember to bring a cup for hot drinks.

Tents and camping equipment should not be for just one Glastonbury. Please take everything home and reuse it again or donate it to a charity shop for it to be reused.

Remove all excess packaging from new items being brought to the Festival. It’s less to carry and leave behind.

Reduce co2 emissions by travelling to the Festival by public transport, bike or lift share by becoming a part of the car share movement.

Wet wipes don’t degrade or compost, so please don’t bring them. Think re-use rather than single use.

Unplug and switch off all electrical devices before leaving home (except fridges and freezers), and don't forget to take part in their future by voting in the EU Referendum.

The vast line-up appearing over the five days was announced yesterday and features Muse, Adele, Coldplay, PJ Harvey, Jeff Lynne's Electric Light Orchestra, Art Garfunkel, Cyndi Lauper, Earth, Wind & Fire, The Last Shadow Puppets, Sigur Ros, Ronnie Spector, Ellie Goulding, Explosions In The Sky, Foals, Beck, LCD Soundsystem, ZZ Top, Disclosure, New Order, Skepta, The 1975, Grimes, Annie Mac, Syrian National Orchestra for Arabic Music, Underworld, James Blake, Chvrches, Savages, Floating Points, Laura Mvula, Stormzy, Daughter, Little Simz, Vince Staples, John Grant, Band of Horses, Jess Glynne, Carl Cox, Nao, Fatboy Slim, Bring Me The Horizon, NHS Choir, Damon Albarn, Richard Hawley, The Lumineers, Lady Leshurr, Rokia Traore, Guy Garvey, Kamasi Washington, Jack Garratt, AlunaGeorge, Hinds, Ezra Furman, M83, Kurt Vile (solo), Mercury Rev, Gregory Porter, Madness, Wolf Alice, Baaba Maal, Ernest Ranglin, Bastille, Roisin Murphy, Santigold, Years And Years, Dua Lipa, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Bat For Lashes, Protoje, Two Door Cinema Club, Jake Bugg, Mac DeMarco, St Etienne, Blossoms, Of Monsters and more.

To see who is playing where and when see our Glastonbury Festival 2016 line-up page or the pages below:

Pyramid Stage
Other Stage
West Holts Stage
The Park Area
Acoustic Tent
John Peel Stage and Tolpuddle Bar
Silver Hayes Dance Area
Avalon Field
The Glade
Shangri-La (The Naughty Corner)
The Common Area
Block 9
Leftfield
Arcadia
Babylon Bandstand
Beat Hotel
William's Green
Croissant Neuf Stage & Bandstand
The Unfairground
The Bread And Roses
Village Inn
Green Fields
Theatre & Circus, Glebeland
Kidz Field
Pilton Palais (film schedule)