The party's over at Glastonbury - and now organisers are faced with an epic clean-up at the huge festival site.

Hundreds of litter-pickers have moved to start clearing tonnes of rubbish as some 177,000 revellers streamed homewards.

Clean teams are set to remove thousands of bags of rubbish from a site stretching over more than 1,000 acres.

The litter pickers deal with rubbish ranging from food waste to entire discarded tents and camping gear dumped by people leaving.

Organisers urged festival goers to sign up to a green pledge to respect the land and "leave no trace" as they departed.

But it's a message that is lost on many.

Glastonbury says the clean-up operation costs them £780,000 each year.

Around half of the waste generated at the event is recycled.

Figures published on the website showed that in 2014 they recycled:

The festival is set to take a break in 2018 as a "fallow year" to allow the farm and the wider community to recover from the impact of the event.