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Potato pegs for Glastonbury tents

Music fans attending this year’s Glastonbury festival will be told to use biodegradable tent pegs in an effort to protect grazing cattle. The pegs are made from biodegradable potato starch, which is strong and already used in the turf industry.

Organiser Michael Eavis said the measure was an attempt to prevent grazing dairy cows at his farm becoming injured by metal tent pegs left behind after the weekend summer festival.

Up to 175,000 people attend the annual bash in fields at Worthy Farm, Somerset, many of whom bring their own tents.

The metal pegs are “a real problem for the cows”, Eavis told BBC News. “We’re going to buy a biodegradable tent peg this year, but it is very stout actually. They use it in the turf industry and we’ve just discovered it. “So we’re going to force people to use the tent pegs and not use the wire ones.“Â

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .