TP For Your Glastonbury

One of Glastonbury’s latest moves to create a greener festival is to provide every ticket holder with a free, environmentally friendly toilet roll.

"There will be more than enough for everyone and, more importantly, it will be the right kind of loo roll," festival chief Michael Eavis told BBC News, possibly indicating that it’s also a user-friendly roll.

About 150,000 will be handed out to punters at the event, in a bid to encourage people not to bring their own.

Nouvelle, the U.K.’s leading recyclable tissue manufacturer and the festival’s environmental partner, has been commissioned to produce the rolls.

"If every household in the U.K. purchased a four-pack of Nouvelle during the course of one week, the waste paper which is recycled to produce it would replace the equivalent of 170,000 trees worth of virgin pulp," according to the company Web site.

"The definitive example of our policy is our decision to invite Nouvelle on board as an official recycling partner to the festival, to give away free recycled toilet tissue," Eavis told the BBC.

This year’s gathering is the first after one of the festival’s occasional fallow years. The farmer/festival promoter said the year off has "re-energised everyone and reminds everyone we’re not just churning it out of a Glastonbury machine."

It will feature a new stage called The Park, which Eavis has described as a "late-night destination that isn’t too full-on."

Although the June 22-24 bill hasn’t been officially announced, it’s believed to have Arctic Monkeys, The Who, Bjork, and Arcade Fire.