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

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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