Glastonbury Festival has always taken pride in its environmental credentials, from raising money for Greenpeace to planting trees and hosting the climate campaigner Greta Thunberg. This year Worthy Farm, the site of the festival, is going a step further by using a British technology that turns cow manure into the wonder material graphene, as well as clean fuel.
Worthy Farm, which is owned by the festival’s co-creator Sir Michael Eavis, produces a considerable amount of cow slurry from its dairy herd. The farm has already been turning the waste into methane to make electricity using an anaerobic digester.
Now, using equipment from the British company Levidian, about a quarter of the methane from the digester will be transformed into graphene. The material, which is exceedingly