The daughter of founder Michael Eavis labelled it a “big project” for the 2019 event which will be the first since last summer, with no festival planned for this year.
She told BBC 6 Music: “There’s lots going on at the moment.
“We’re working on banning plastic bottles… which is an enormous project and it’s taking a lot of time to tackle it with all the different people we work with.
“But that’s the big project at the moment for ’18, to get rid of plastic bottles across the whole site.” To view this media, you need an HTML5 capable device or download the Adobe Flash player.
It comes four years after the Somerset festival introduced water kiosks where revellers can get bottles filled.
On their website, organisers ask fans to not buy bottled water and offer reusable WaterAid bottles for £10.
Earlier this week the BBC became the latest corporation to announce a ban on single-use plastics.
The move – scheduled to kick in by 2020 – comes in the wake of its landmark series Blue Planet II which highlighted plastic pollution in the oceans.

With such a media spotlight on sustainability, Zenith’s 2018 UK Bottled Water Conference on 15 March in London will open with a breakfast briefing on finding more sustainable packaging solutions.
The session features compliance experts Ecosurety, environmental charity Hubbub and leading retailer Marks & Spencer, with moderation by The Packaging Collective.
Taking up the challenge of "Inspiring consumers to value packaging and encourage recycling while on the go", the session will bring together industry members to discuss consumer concerns, focus on areas of opportunity and create a positive way forward for brand owners, suppliers and retailers.
The briefing will review the latest recycling initiatives, including reverse vending and deposit schemes, as well as offering case studies illustrating the importance of producer responsibility in building consumer awareness on effective packaging waste management.
Other highlights at the conference include an overview of latest market developments from Zenith, analysis of consumer and retailer expectations from Kantar and Bridgethorne, and an international keynote address by US leader Niagara Executive Vice President Rali Sanderson.
The afternoon will look at industry policy issues, with contributions from Association of Convenience Stores, British Retail Consortium, Coca-Cola, Co-op and RECOUP.
Nichols and Ugly Drinks will focus on how innovation is evolving and the day will conclude with an entrepreneur shootout involving start-ups Dash Water, JUST Water and Vievė.
New this year is a "Chiller Corner", providing dedicated space for registered delegates on a first come first served basis to showcase their new bottled water products.
The event coincides with the launch of Zenith’s 2018 UK Bottled Water Report with statistics from 2011 through to 2021 forecasts, including packaging, distribution and water types.
The report will also include company and brand volume sales at both full market and segment level, an assessment of challenges and future market trends, and detailed profiles of the leading companies.

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PLEASANT — Wasatch Academy (WA) Sustainability Committee, made up of students and faculty, recently joined the growing movement to reduce the huge amount of waste caused by plastic bottles.
The “Ban the Bottle” campaign has since become a high priority for the committee.
Plastic pollution is one of the most significant burdens to the environment.
Believe it or not, enough plastic is discarded every year to circle the globe four times.
Even worse, it is estimated that 50 percent of the plastic on this planet is used only once before being thrown away.
Wasatch Academy currently provides bottled water for campus events in a number of settings.
It is the committee’s goal for the school to be a “plastic water bottle free school” by Sept. 1.
Committee members and the Development Office have set a goal to raise $24,500.
Funds raised through this campaign will be used to purchase and install 15 rapid bottle filling stations and provide every member of the school community a Wasatch Academy logo bottle.

I had spent the past week in South Africa on a reporting trip and had decided to pass through Cape Town on my way back, in part out of curiosity about the water shortage.
I spent a few months in Cape Town during the southern hemisphere’s wintertime in 2010.
My hotel greeted me with a posted “urgent notice” about the water, explaining that the steam room and jacuzzi were closed, and showers would be limited to two minutes or less.
Like The Atlantic’s other health editors, I don’t bathe much anyway.
I ordered a carafe of local wine for 30 rand, or about $2.50, thinking it would help save water.
Yet another sign said water purchases would be limited to 20 liters per person.
People said that for months, they have been showering into a bucket, then using that water for their gardens.
They’re allowed 50 liters per person per day—less than a bathtub’s worth—and risk fines if they exceed the limit.
Still, she worries about the city’s many, many poor people.
Like its hardy fynbos, the country always seems to find a way.

According to radio station KHEW 88.5 FM, the boil order is for the villages below 3-mile hill on the water system as well as houses on Lower Road below the Monteau cut-across.
KHEW stated the supply is low due to pipes breaking in unheated homes.
If you plan to leave your home and do not have heat, call 395-4225 so officials can shut your water off.
KHEW 88.5 FM shared the following message on their Facebook page:
Bring all water to a boil, let it boil 3 minutes and let it cool before using or us bottled water.
Dirty water may enter broken water pipes.
This water may contain disease-causing organisms.
These organisms can cause symptoms such as diarrhea, nausea, cramps and associated headaches.
They may post a greater health risk for infants, young children, some of the elderly and people with severely-compromised immune systems These symptoms are not caused only by organisms in drinking water.
Please conserve water and notify our office if you know of broken water lines.

A public meeting provided an update to hundreds of residents in Blades who cannot use their running water following a discovery that the town’s wells were contaminated.
Late last week, the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) announced they were distributing bottled water to area residents after the town’s well water system was found to be contaminated by perfluorinated compounds (PFCs).
The filtration system will help fix the problem; however, it will only act as a temporary solution.
"Everything bottled water.
DNREC said the water from the sampled wells are safe to use for bathing and laundry, but cannot be used for cooking or drinking.
He said he quickly put the cup down.
"You get just outside of town limits here and there’s a lot of other houses that are on wells that aren’t on city water.
There were several residents who showed up that live just outside the town limits of Blades who have private wells and shared the same concern that Tom expressed.
Secretary Garvin said DNREC will be investigating, and for now fixing the issue remains the state’s top priority.
The carbon filtration system set to be installed in the town will be temporary, and only a full filtration system would provide a permanent solution to the issue to prevent any future contamination to the town’s water system.

Business owners in Cape Town are scrambling to address an existential threat: No water.
Megan Van Rooyen, the owner of a local salon, told CNNMoney that she might have to start asking her clients to bring their own water to have their hair shampooed.
Other businesses told the chamber of commerce that they are cutting back on water use by encouraging employees not to flush toilets and to substitute hand sanitizer for a water wash. "If we can flush toilets with sea water and have bottled water in the office, we can continue to work," one anonymous business owner told the chamber of commerce.
Water will keep flowing to some businesses on Day Zero, but authorities have not yet detailed which companies will qualify.
"If our staff can’t get water and have to spend long hours queuing when they should be at work it will cripple our business," said another survey respondent.
More than a quarter of companies said they have halted or postponed investments because of the crisis.
City official Lance Greyling says tourism is already suffering.
Many companies are trying to secure their own water supply.
More than half of the business owners surveyed by the chamber of commerce have invested in rainwater tanks, while 33% have drilled boreholes or wells.
"Some days we get 200 to 300 calls … and we can only drill for about 20% of inquiries," he said.

The most concerning news from the new testing showed 14 of 93 tests inside Doyle Ryder Elementary School registered lead levels of 15 ppb or more with two sites registering more than 100 ppb.
"Until we get through (school testing) we don’t want any of this to go away.
Flint schools Superintendent Bilal Tawwab issued a statement to MLive-The Flint Journal, saying the district "is eager to continue our work with the state, the mayor’s office, medical experts and Flint residents to analyze and continue water testing moving forward."
"These results offer a good baseline from which we hope to see continued improvements in water quality in the district," Tawwab’s statement says.
"At this point, MDEQ hasn’t been granted access into Flint Community Schools (buildings) to conduct the flushing and testing we’ve been able to complete at all of the other charter and parochial schools, day cares, and elder care facilities" in the city, said Tiffany Brown, a spokeswoman for the department, in an email to MLive-The Flint Journal.
The DEQ said follow-up testing will continue at Doyle Ryder and other Flint schools to find and fix high lead readings.
"This is the first of three rounds of testing, and we will be conducting additional follow up and testing … (The) purpose/reason testing of the schools was so important was so that we could identify any potential issues and address them," DEQ spokeswoman Tiffany Brown said in an email to The Journal.
Water samples are being collected before and after water is flushed in the schools, according to the DEQ.
"Pre-flush samples are samples where we don’t know how long the water has been stagnate/sitting (it could be one day, week, one month, one year)," Brown said in her email.
In a news release Tuesday, the DEQ says that in addition to 97.2 percent of tests having less 15 ppb or less of lead, 96.2 percent were at or below 10 ppb, 92.6 percent were at or below 5 ppb — the standard for bottled water, and 66.7 percent of tests showed no lead.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa—I was warned right away, at the airport: “We have a water crisis with severe restrictions in place,” read a Buick-sized sign in the arrivals area.
I had spent the past week in South Africa on a reporting trip and had decided to pass through Cape Town on my way back, in part out of curiosity about the water shortage.
I spent a few months in Cape Town during the southern hemisphere’s wintertime in 2010.
Like The Atlantic’s other health editors, I don’t bathe much anyway.
I ordered a carafe of local wine for 30 rand, or about $2.50, thinking it would help save water.
Yet another sign said water purchases would be limited to 20 liters per person.
People said that for months, they have been showering into a bucket, then using that water for their gardens.
They’re allowed 50 liters per person per day—less than a bathtub’s worth—and risk fines if they exceed the limit.
Still, she worries about the city’s many, many poor people.
Like its hardy fynbos, the country always seems to find a way.

Told that there is less than 100 days of water in their dams, the locals can be forgiven for worrying.
It will rain again in Cape Town, we just don’t know exactly when.
Sure, it happened in 2017 not 2016, but the dams are now full.
Cape Town’s story is almost exactly the same.
They fail to understand that inaction very quickly turns a one-in-50-year risk to one-in-20 years or sooner.
We dispute the argument that the city failed to act despite warnings of a potential drought crisis and that water-demand management and the conservation interventions that have been favoured over investment in new infrastructure have not been effective.
Muller underplays the success of these initiatives, when in fact they were so successful that the Department of Water and Sanitation was prompted to update its strategic water resource plan in 2016 to indicate that the need for additional supply schemes for the region would now be required only by 2021.
But that is exactly what the city should be doing.
The job of the water managers — and their political heads — is to ensure water security in times of drought.
Of course, water restrictions are an option.