What items are banned from Glastonbury 2025? Full list of banned items - including body glitter and disposable vapes
With Glastonbury Festival 2025 just on the horizon, here’s a list of things you should leave at home if you’re planning on attending.
The world-famous festival returns on Wednesday, June 25 with stars such as The 1975, Olivia Rodrigo and Neil Young set to headline the stage at Worthy Farm. Other highly-anticipated performers throughout the festival will include Charli XCX, Alanis Morissette, and Rod Stewart.
With the festival only one week away, attendees will be starting to pack their tents, sleeping bags and backpacks to get ready. Here are some of the items that you will need to avoid when packing for Glastonbury 2025.
What items are banned from Glastonbury 2025?
Banned items that will not be permitted on the Glastonbury Festival site include:
- Portable laser equipment or laser pens
- Knives
- Animals (expect registered guide dogs)
- Sound systems or drums
- Power generators
- Sky lanterns or kites
- Fireworks or flares
- Wax candles
- Nitrous oxide (laughing gas) canisters
- Any glass
- Gazebos
The festival has also issued warning to festivalgoers not to bring body glitter, even biodegradable glitter as it cannot be broken down correctly without being heat-treated, as well as putting a ban on disposable vapes.
While the sale of disposable vapes has now been banned in the UK, the legislation only came in at the start of June, meaning that some people may have stockpiled some to use during their trip to Glastonbury. However, the famously-green festival has urged attendees not to bring them, explaining: “They pollute the environment and can be hazardous at waste centres.”
While not strictly banned, Glastonbury goers are also being asked to avoid the use of disposable wipes and excess packaging due to the environmental factors, as well as being told to only bring the food and alcohol they require for the stay at Worthy Farm.
Glastonbury’s long-running partner Greenpeace has also issued advice to campers, asking them to take their tents home with them and bin any rubbish when they leave the campsite at the end of the festival. The charity said: “Take home all of your possessions and camping equipment, bin all of your rubbish and help leave your camp site cow-ready and spotless.”