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Pictures: Cleaning up after muddy Glastonbury festival 2016

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"Please take home your tent" sign at GlastonburyImage source, Matt Cardy/Getty Images
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The sign is clear - it's time for the festival-goers at Glastonbury to go home. The world famous music festival happens at Worthy Farm in Somerset.

Lady walking with suitcase through mud at GlastonburyImage source, Matt Cardy/Getty Images
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The mud didn't make it easy and this lady knows the struggle. Glastonbury is known for getting super muddy when it rains but this year is thought to have been one of the muddiest... and the festival has been going since 1970! Back then entry was only £1 and included free milk from the farm.

A car being towed by a tractorImage source, Matt Cardy/Getty Images
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Now around 135,000 people attend the festival and it can take a while to leave... This car had to be pulled by a tractor to get it through all of the mud!

Wellies left at GlastonburyImage source, Matt Cardy/Getty Images
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These wellies have been left behind - perhaps they kept getting stuck in the mud too!

Collecting rubbish at GlastonburyImage source, Matt Cardy/Getty Images
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Plenty of people helped to collect rubbish. There were special sections at the festival where people could recycle.

Litter pickers at GlastonburyImage source, Matt Cardy/Getty Images
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This year it's thought they will collect 500,000 bags of rubbish, 57 tonnes of reusable items and 1,022 tonnes of recycling.