Glastonbury covered in rubbish after Greta Thunberg leads ‘climate justice’ chant

The Glastonbury FOMO is coming to an end for another year, you can un-mute all your friends who posted roughly seven million Insta stories from the festival daily and instead be thankful you’re not them having to get the coach home on an awful hangover/come down.

Olivia Rodrigo and Lily Allen sung “F*ck You” to America’s Supreme Court, people had a blast drinking piss-warm tinnies and dancing to the Sugababes – but they were also creating an absolute fuck tonne of rubbish.

Over the weekend Greta Thunberg took to the stage, giving a speech urging people to “take action” and work together to stop “total natural catastrophe”, before leading a chant of “climate justice”. And not even 48 hours later, pictures have emerged showing what is simply just piles of waste left behind.

The festival has an entire section of its website dedicated to its environmental rules, which includes banning single-use plastic bottles, only biodegradable glitter to be sold on-site, and the festival has planted over 10,000 trees and plants since 2000 to support the local environment. Oh, and it also has teams of litter pickers working throughout the festival and after it, collecting up all the rubbish by hand.

Greta Thunberg took to Glastonbury’s Pyramid stage over the weekend, leading a chant of “climate justice” after delivering a speech where she warned the world faces “total natural catastrophe” unless people take urgent action.

“We are approaching the precipice and I would strongly suggest that all of those who have not yet been greenwashed out of our senses to stand our ground,” she said. “Do you not let them drag us another inch closer to the edge. Right now is where we stand our ground.”

She accused world leaders of failing to halt the climate emergency and said they’ve created “loopholes” that allow the world’s destruction to go unchecked. “It has not only become acceptable for leaders to lie – it’s almost what we expect them to do,” she said. 

“Hope is not something that is given to you. It is something you have to earn, to create. It cannot be gained passively from standing by passively and waiting for someone else to do something.

“It is taking action. It is stepping outside your comfort zone. And if a bunch of school kids were able to get millions of people on the streets and start changing their lives, just imagine what we could all do together if we try.”

Here are the pictures of the Glastonbury festival clean-up:

Featured image via SWNS

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