The big clean-up begins! Discarded tents, chairs and beer bottles are among the piles of litter left behind by revellers at Isle of Wight festival
These images show the waste mountain left by revellers at this year’s Isle of Wight festival, including hundreds of discarded tents, chairs and beer bottles.
Abandoned gazebos billowed in the breeze as huge piles of plastic bags gathered along the perimeter fence of Seaclose Park in Newport – while the on-site rubbish bins were completely swamped.
Many festivalgoers do not appear to have taken any significant effort to remove their waste, which will now fall to the organisers to clear.
The festival took place from June 13 to 16 and featured a star-studded line-up including George Ezra, Noel Gallagher and Biffy Clyro, who played in front of more than 50,000 fans.
However, the amount on waste it produced was nothing compared to last year’s Reading Festival, where 60,000 tents were dumped with an estimated total value of £1million.
The site of this year’s Isle of Wight festival – Seaclose Park in Newport – was seen swamped with rubbish yesterday after the event ended
On-site litter bins were swamped with far more rubbish than they could possibly take, including stuffed plastic bags and beer boxes
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Many festivalgoers do not appear to have taken any significant effort to remove their waste, which will now fall to the organisers to clear
The festival took place from June 13 to 16 and featured a star-studded line-up including George Ezra, Noel Gallagher and Biffy Clyro, who played in front of more than 50,000 fans
A litter picker starts to remove a tent from the grounds of the Isle of Wight festival, which managed to avoid a summer washout this year
Despite the piles seen in these photos, the amount on waste it produced was nothing compared to last year’s Reading Festival, where 60,000 tents were dumped with an estimated total value of £ 1million
The Isle of Wight Festival clean up started late afternoon into the early evening yesterday after the revellers left the site
Countless tents were abandoned at the site on the Isle of Wight along with chairs, gazebos, sleeping bags and blow up beds
Tents were left by music fans at the festival while huge piles of rubbish were also found on the grass following the festival
Mounds of rubbish were left at the site, with some people not bothering collect and dispose of their rubbish
Sunday’s line-up included Madness and ex-Verve frontman Richard Ashcroft, before concluding with headliners Biffy Clyro
The Isle of Wight Festival clean up was a huge effort thanks to the large number of tents and piles of rubbish left behind
After the festival began with rain and thunderstorms on Thursday, the weather had been mixed on Friday on Saturday
Heavy rain early on Sunday caused muddy conditions underfoot and some revellers decided to leave their tents at the site
A packed Red Funnel ferry returns from the Isle of Wight following the festival, heading for Southampton
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