Sustainability will run through the 2024 Paris Olympics. While it might not take the podium, it will definitely take a front-row seat and this is how Paris is leading the charge!
Paris, France (16 July, 2023)—As the clock winds down until the 2024 Paris Olympics, another champion will feature among the world’s best athletes. Sustainability will be in the spotlight as part of the most famous Games, and while it might not take the podium it is definitely taking a front-row seat. In fact, it’s taking all the seats!
Next year’s Olympics are set to be the greenest Games to date, and one way the Olympic committee is doing this is by creating seating made up of chairs that have been upcycled from plastic waste. Tens of thousands of seats will see plastic waste live a new life at various stadiums like the Arena at Porte de la Chapelle in Paris and the Olympic aquatic centre.
This helps give plastic waste sourced from recycling bins a new life while spotlighting upcycling at a series of events the world will be watching.
This initiative coincides with the Games’ Climate Coach for Events’ tool which is aimed at reducing the carbon footprint sporting events hold.
The tool helps with assessments and reduction solutions for events and comes at no charge.
Together these initiatives are projected to halve carbon emissions the previous Olympic Games have seen.
“Organising a more responsible Olympic and Paralympic Games is an absolutely critical objective for Paris 2024. The Games act like a laboratory for developing solutions, as the Climate Coach for Events, that can be applied to all sporting events.
“We invite all those involved in sport to seize this opportunity, so that we can leave a legacy of a more socially and environmentally virtuous model,” as Tony Estanguet, President of the Paris 2024 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games said.
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