Zenobē and National Express power Glastonbury with electric buses

Zenobē will supply eight electric double-decker buses for the Bristol-Glastonbury route, along with a pop-up charging station

Octopus makes a ‘Gale’-stonbury entrance with giant wind turbine

The wind turbine will power food stands at Glastonbury Festival

Glasto mud toilet sculpture wants a climate chat

A sculpture has been made at Glastonbury to raise awareness of the climate and water crisis

Glastonbury fish in ecstasy – or are they?

Scientists have found cocaine and MDMA in a river near the festival from public urination – impacting the health and wellbeing of wildlife

Glastonbury Festival says no to selling plastic bottles

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Glastonbury Festival bans single-use plastic bottle sales

Those attending the music festival are being encouraged to bring reusable bottles

Glastonbury Festival plans to ban plastic bottles

  Glastonbury festival plans to ban the use of plastic bottles when it returns in 2019. The festival, held in Somerset since 1970, has previously used solar panels and urinals that could power their own lighting by transforming urine into electricity. In 2014, it introduced water kiosks where people could get any type of bottle […]

Solar to power Attenborough film at Glastonbury

A David Attenborough film screened at Glastonbury Festival is to be powered by renewable energy. Solarcentury donated 30 panels with a capacity of 7.5KW for environmental group Greenpeace’s ‘Virtual Reality Dome’. The solar panels will generate enough clean energy to power the whole dome for the duration of the festival, which opens today and runs […]

Glastonbury Festival fined £31k for pollution

The organisers of Glastonbury Festival, believed to be the world’s biggest music festival, have been ordered to pay £31,000 in fines and costs for pollution offences. More than four kilometres of the Whitelake River was polluted after 20,000 gallons of untreated sewage escaped from a temporary storage tank on a farm at Pilton, near Shepton […]