Glastonbury festival set to ban plastic bottles in 2019

Emily Eavis says festival is working on 'enormous project' to ban plastic bottles on site when it returns after year off in 2018

Glastonbury festival is to implement a site-wide ban on plastic bottles when it returns in 2019. "It's an enormous project; it's taking a lot of time to tackle with all the different people we work with," organiser Emily Eavis told BBC 6 Music.

In 2014, Glastonbury introduced environmentally friendly stainless steel bottles and water kiosks for the cost-free refill of any kind of receptacle, followed in 2016 by stainless steel pint cups designed to be "non-aerodynamic, to minimise injuries from throwing". Use of these containers was optional. Glastonbury organisers have previously estimated that 1m plastic bottles are used during the event.