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Glastonbury revellers warned over disgusting act that 'could end festival for good'

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Updated 14:17 28 Jun 2024 GMT+1Published 14:16 28 Jun 2024 GMT+1

Glastonbury revellers warned over disgusting act that 'could end festival for good'

If this goes down over the weekend then you really might never get to go to Glastonbury

Jess Battison

Jess Battison

It’s happening, Instagram has started to fill up with pictures of people drinking tinnies on a campsite, dancing to your favourite artist in a field and watching the sunset from the top of a hill.

Oh yes, it’s Glastonbury weekend and chances are if you’re not there, you’re having serious FOMO of the music acts and the vibes and well, just everything about being there. Well, except for the prices.

But if this disgusting act goes down over the weekend it ‘really could be the end’ of the legendary UK festival – truly ramping up that FOMO for life.

Although, it’s not an act on one of the stages as such (I doubt Miss Dua Lipa is getting up to this) but rather an act those lucky enough to be there might do themselves.

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There are actual toilets available all over the site. (Kate Green/Getty Images)
There are actual toilets available all over the site. (Kate Green/Getty Images)

Yep, I’m talking about those Glastonbury revellers who could ruin it for the rest of us.

The festival has issued a warning to attendees to ‘please don’t pee on the land’.

You read that right – if too many people decide to go and pull their kecks down and have a p**s on the ground they could cause the festival to shut down.

Glastonbury’s plea explains: “Peeing on the ground causes toxic pollution of the water table. The ground water runs into the central Whitelake River and down the valley for miles around. Wildlife and fish are affected if 200,000 people pee everywhere.”

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It adds that the Environment Agency regularly tests the water and has ‘the power to close down the site if too many people’ go about polluting the site.

“It really could be the end of Glastonbury if you pee where you shouldn’t,” it continues. “Please only pee in our thousands of toilets and urinals.”

Peeing on the land could end Glasto. (Ian Gavan/Getty Images)
Peeing on the land could end Glasto. (Ian Gavan/Getty Images)

And let’s just say some of that pee really could be toxic. Back in 2021, a report found that ‘environmentally damaging levels of illegal drugs’ were found in the river going through Glastonbury festival thanks to all the public p**sing on site.

Researchers measured levels of illegal drugs in River Whitelake before, during and after the event in 2019 as they compared levels upstream and downstream of it.

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And after that year’s festival, drug levels in there were high enough to harm its aquatic wildlife. Dan Aberg, of Bangor University’s School of Natural Sciences, said: “Illicit drug contamination from public urination happens at every music festival.

"Unfortunately, Glastonbury festival’s close proximity to a river results in any drugs released by festival attendees having little time to degrade in the soil before entering the fragile freshwater ecosystem.”

So, lads, listen to Glasto’s plea and don’t pee on the land. Just hold it and get yourself to one of the 1,000s of toilets and urinals before you ruin it for the rest of us.

Featured Image Credit: Matt Cardy/Getty Images/Getty Stock Images

Topics: Glastonbury, Environment, Drugs, UK News

Jess Battison
Jess Battison

Jess is a Senior Journalist with a love of all things pop culture. Her main interests include asking everyone in the office what they're having for tea, waiting for a new series of The Traitors and losing her voice at a Beyoncé concert. She graduated with a first in Journalism from City, University of London in 2021.

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