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Glastonbury Festival litter pickers have revealed their most bizarre discoveries including a poo in a bra.

The 2,500 strong team have been worked throughout the festival and since it finished on Sunday to clear the waste left by 175,000 music fans.

Andy Wilcott, who is in charge of recycling waste collected at Glastonbury, says his team are often confronted with completely inexplicable finds among a mountain of lost property, Somerset Live reported.

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When asked about the strangest finds from previous festivals he said: "A poo in a bra, hanging in a tree.

"We just wondered 'how the hell has that happened?

"We found a cannon ball once, and we've found mannequins.

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"We find a lot of lost wallets and jewellery and millions of phones.

"The lost property system is incredible. They try for months to return items. Phones can normally be returned."

Mr Wilcott revealed empty laughing gas [nitros oxide] cans are recovered from the site - but numbers are declining.

He said: "There's been a decrease in NOS cans this year. It is a trend downwards. We notices it at other festivals last year when there wasn't a Glastonbury and I'd say it is lower here than at other festivals."

Mr Wilcott also explained why bins at the festival were often overflowing - which has led to ugly scenes at the event.

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"There are 15,000 bins and they have to be emptied manually," he said.

"If the were any bigger they wouldn't be able to lift them up.

"People still use them even when they are overflowing. They will leave waste nearby which stuill helps with collecting it."

Organisers say they are committed to reducing plastic waste on the site.

The sale of single use plastic bottles was banned at the 2019 festival and people were urged to refill their own containers at water points.

Organisers also urged people camping at the festival to remove their tents afterwards - reversing a trend for some people to treat them as disposable.

The festival said that 99.3 per cent of all tents were removed from the festival site.