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While 130,000 Danes party at Roskilde Festival, an invisible workforce collects their trash for survival

Ellsworth Toohey
Jun 20, 2025
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Campsite at the music festival in Roskilde, Denmark (UNIT 80 / Shutterstock.com)

Giulia Gotti's "A day in the life of a bottle collector" is a behind-the-scenes look at how bottle collectors from Romania and West Africa prop up Denmark's Roskilde Festival's image of progressive idealism.

Roskilde's marketed image is a utopian space, with no mention of the…

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