{"id":6994,"date":"2017-06-28T05:25:41","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T05:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6994"},"modified":"2017-06-28T05:25:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T05:25:41","slug":"780000-worth-of-unsustainability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2017\/06\/28\/780000-worth-of-unsustainability\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a3780,000 worth of unsustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/other\/glastonbury-festival-2017-mammoth-clean-up-begins-as-revellers-leave-behind-filth-and-waste\/ar-BBDeHfR\">MSN<\/a>, it cost the Eavis family \u00a3780,000 to clean up after the Glastonbury Festival. \u00a0This is the biggest, most spectacular clean-up bill yet. \u00a0This was despite the involvement\u00a0of around 1,300 recycling volunteers who came to the farm (that's about half the population of Somerset). \u00a0I don't understand how it costs so much. \u00a0Mind you, I don't understand why so much rubbish is dropped either, unless littering is part of the essential experience. \u00a0Is it? \u00a0Judging by the pictures of overflowing rubbish bins, littering is built into the experience. \u00a0There's nothing so sustainable as litter, it seems; anyway, it all adds \u00a3780,000 to GDP. \u00a0Maybe Eavis should partner with Untidy Britain for 2019.<\/p>\n<p>There's no festival next year in order to give the land, village and local wildlife a chance to rest (according to Eavis). \u00a0You have to wonder what ageing MPs and geriatric\u00a0rockers will do next June; not to mention the BBC. \u00a0How will it fill its overflowing channels in mid-June?<\/p>\n<p>How about some jazz?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to MSN, it cost the Eavis family \u00a3780,000 to clean up after the Glastonbury Festival. \u00a0This is the biggest, most spectacular clean-up bill yet. \u00a0This was despite the involvement\u00a0of around 1,300 recycling volunteers who came to the farm (that's...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}