Worthy Farm is clean!

[Sawdusty surfer]

I finally left site last night. The whole place is looking incredibly clean. 500 litter pickers were laid off yesterday lunchtime. (Small protest happened outside Goose Hall as many were expecting many more days work)

I've never seen the place look so clean and tidy so quickly before. This time last year the farm was still absolutely minging.

Huge big up to all festival goers who clearly used the bins, tidied up their camping areas and left no trace. Looks like the message has finally got through!

This must have saved the festival a fortune and so will leave more money for charity.

Brilliant!

[Crazyfool01]

yay fantastic news ... can't wait to see the cows skipping their way back into the fields

[slipmatt]

So glad this is all done - funny, I have a contact on Facebook who says she is still on site, still cleaning and it's all kicking off re: protests, lack of meals and workers rights. 

Have you spotted anything like this? The person I know is a contact, rather than someone I know well - but don't know any reason for her messages to not have weight.

Thanks for all your work xx

[Avalon_Fields]

Congrats on your good work. I hope further progress is made in 2019, still the most disappointing aspect of the festival for me is trashing - albeit temporarily - a beautiful landscape.

[Fingerbobs]

Well done to all the hard work carried out while us punters slowly regain our bearings in the outside world. Great to hear the site was generally tidier this year too - something I noticed whilst there. Great stuff. 

[giantkatestacks]

Wow, just wow. We could tell it was much cleaner as we were basically doing a fine pick on the Pyramid Monday morning which we never normally have time for.

[UEF]

Thought it was the cleanest I've ever seen it this year

[Penrhos]

Must be due to the lack of mud, I saw a lot of people kicking rubbish towards the bins this year, last year it'd just disappear into the gloop.

[Dave_c]

Honestly don't think it was any cleaner, just easier to clean up than muddy years.

[marathonsteve]

Thanks to every single person who put their rubbish in the Bins and took all their gear home. Brilliant

[giantkatestacks]

32 minutes ago, Dave_c said:

Honestly don't think it was any cleaner, just easier to clean up than muddy years.

No, it was cleaner. 

[Deaf Nobby Burton]

It was cleaner this year, but surely that was mostly to do with the weather? I remember all the pictures in the newspapers from Monday last year and the place looked apocalyptic.

[stuartbert two hats]

7 minutes ago, giantkatestacks said:

No, it was cleaner. 

Interesting. As in actually fewer bags of rubbish gathered in a shift? (you're a litter picker right, or have I got that mixed up?)

Edited July 1, 2017 by stuartbert two hats

[verrymerry]

Woo hoo! 

[JayBalls]

Nice one  

[giantkatestacks]

1 hour ago, stuartbert two hats said:

Interesting. As in actually fewer bags of rubbish gathered in a shift? (you're a litter picker right, or have I got that mixed up?)

Just arriving to the Pyramid at 6 every day you can see it is just less messy than previous years, less big items left behind. We were always waiting for a post-Beyonce level of pick (the horror) but it just didnt happen. 

When we were sent around the site only the area around Love bullets was particularly bad. I think theres an obvious correlation between litter and how fked people are, the Pyramid just didn't attract it this year and we weren't sent on long walks to help other teams out that much either.

@pie_and_a_pint what did you think?

[Aragorn]

4 hours ago, Sawdusty Surfer said:

I finally left site last night. The whole place is looking incredibly clean. 500 litter pickers were laid off yesterday lunchtime. (Small protest happened outside Goose Hall as many were expecting many more days work)

I've never seen the place look so clean and tidy so quickly before. This time last year the farm was still absolutely minging.

Huge big up to all festival goers who clearly used the bins, tidied up their camping areas and left no trace. Looks like the message has finally got through!

This must have saved the festival a fortune and so will leave more money for charity.

Brilliant!

 

nice to meet you dude, my Swedish candles were mint !

[fat_man_joe]

Do you need any training for litter picking, or can you just pick it up as you go along?

[stuartbert two hats]

10 minutes ago, fat_man_joe said:

Do you need any training for litter picking, or can you just pick it up as you go along?

Out of upvotes

[themuel]

2 hours ago, stuartbert two hats said:

Interesting. As in actually fewer bags of rubbish gathered in a shift? (you're a litter picker right, or have I got that mixed up?)

I was a worthy warrior again this year and there was a noticeable difference I thought. I had to search out rubbish in our campsite for the first few days. 

[Lucy92]

Does the weather help? I.e do we think there would be more litter in a wet year 

[jonodillieono]

18 minutes ago, Lucy92 said:

Does the weather help? I.e do we think there would be more litter in a wet year 

Definitely

[Swine_Glasto2014]

14 minutes ago, jonodillieono said:

Definitely

100%

 

[Madyaker]

Oxlyers still looked an absolute state on the webacam on Tuesday. I'm guessing the lack of mud helped.

[DownlnAlbion]

3 hours ago, giantkatestacks said:

Just arriving to the Pyramid at 6 every day you can see it is just less messy than previous years, less big items left behind. We were always waiting for a post-Beyonce level of pick (the horror) but it just didnt happen. 

When we were sent around the site only the area around Love bullets was particularly bad. I think theres an obvious correlation between litter and how fked people are, the Pyramid just didn't attract it this year and we weren't sent on long walks to help other teams out that much either.

@pie_and_a_pint what did you think?

Love Bullets was a nightmare with those stupid nos canisters. I was in there on Friday night and you couldn't move without standing on them.