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In June 2022, shortly after environmentalist Greta Thunberg gave an unexpected speech at the Glastonbury Music Festival, a photograph started to circulate on social media that supposedly showed the littered grounds after her appearance: This picture was not taken in June 2022 after Thunberg's speech but at Glastonbury in 2015, three years before Thunberg became a public figure. This wasn't the first time that a picture of garbage-covered grounds was miscaptioned in an attempt to disparage a particular group. In 2019, for example, a couple of miscaptioned photographs of grounds covered in trash were circulated after a global-warming protest in Hyde Park, London. In 2018, a miscaptioned photo of garbage near the side of the road was shared with demeaning messages about refugees heading to the United States' border from Honduras. While Glastonbury (like any event that involves large crowds) sees a good deal of garbage, the music festival has implemented some policies that aim to lessen the amount of waste that attendees leave behind. The BBC reported in 2019 that the festival banned single-use plastic bottles. In June 2022, thousands of people volunteered to help clean up after the festival. The official Twitter account for the festival's organizers posted a photograph of the festival grounds 12 hours after the final performance. While any event that attracts hundreds of thousands of people for multiple days is going to see some leftover garbage, volunteer litter pickers at the 2022 Glastonbury Festival event told ITV that the festival grounds weren't nearly as littered as in years past. ITV reported:
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