Please love the farm and leave no trace

18th June 2025

Sustainability has always been at the heart of Glastonbury Festival and our continuing desire to improve what we do is at the core of so many of our initiatives. From our early adoption of compostable serveware to the renewable energy systems that first powered the Green Fields and set the fossil fuel-free standard we have now implemented site-wide.

We want to make our Festival – and our world – a better place for everyone. We hope you’ll find Glastonbury Festival to be an inclusive microcosm of that ideal; one that celebrates individuality and difference, amplifies those with quieter voices and delights, entertains and inspires all, so that everyone who is welcomed here, leaves energised and enlightened. Because this kind of mutual respect – for our environment as well as for each other – is what it will take to be truly sustainable.

Below are a few things we’re proud to have achieved on our journey so far.  For more information, please read our Impact Summary.

• No fossil fuels are used for power anywhere on the Glastonbury Festival site. All generators run entirely on responsibly sourced virgin palm oil-free HVO fuel made from waste cooking oil, helping to reduce direct CO2e emissions by up to 90%.

• In a determined drive to reduce non recyclable waste and promote more sustainable alternatives, the sale of single-use plastic drink bottles is banned on-site and all crisps are sold in compostable packaging.

• Our sustainable travel initiatives have helped over hundreds of thousands of ticket holders travel to the Festival by bike or public transport. Each year, more than 65,000 ticket holders take advantage of these for their Festival travel.

• Our own on-site recycling plant is the country’s largest events-run facility and ensures we can hand-separate our own waste for single stream recycling, avoiding the need to send waste to landfill.

• All crockery and plates at the Festival are either reusable or compostable – and inedible food waste is turned into fertile compost or sent to anaerobic digestion.

• All production areas are either powered by lower impact, fossil fuel-free electricity or run on solar PV and battery hybrid systems.

• We engage as many people as we can with issues which we feel passionately about such as climate change activism, sustainable living, diversity and inclusivity, and have created stages and areas in which to share ideas.

• We passionately support our charity partners – Greenpeace, Oxfam and WaterAid – and other charitable causes and campaigns helping to raise awareness of humanitarian, social and environmental issues close to our heart.

• We have a fleet of electric and hybrid vehicles to transport our crew and artists.

• A temporary wind turbine, installed alongside a solar panel and battery system, will produce up to 300kWh of energy per day and power food stalls in Carhenge.

• Clean energy from the Festival’s own 250kMp solar PV array, as well as our anaerobic digester and 125kVA biogas plant power, provide energy for Festival offices and some production areas as well as helping to charge some battery systems.

• Over 98% of all tents have been taken home after each Festival since 2019.

• Our Green Fields have run on solar, wind and pedal power since 1984, setting a fossil fuel-free standard we aspire towards implementing across the Festival.

• By exclusively supporting Fairtrade Certified coffee, tea, sugar, drinking chocolate and cotton, both on site and in our official website store, we’re helping to empower communities of growers.

• Worthy Farm and the Festival site is rich with biodiversity and we have protected areas across the Festival site to help ensure these habitats and their wildlife are looked after.