LOOK: Is the Olympic Games as green as Japan claims?

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LOOK: Is the Olympic Games as green as Japan claims?
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Let’s take a look at some of the ways that Japan has tried to make the Olympic Games more sustainable. olympics sustainable environment

Torchbearer Japanese Kabuki actor Nakamura Kankuro transfers the Olympic flame. Picture: Yuki Iwamura/AFP

To claim their recycled medals, athletes will need to get onto recycled podiums of course! Podiums were made from recycled plastic waste recovered from oceans and donated by the public. Once the games are finished, the podiums will be used for educational purposes, and some will be recycled into bottles by one of the games’ sponsors, Procter & Gamble.Yes, cardboard beds. Olympians will be getting their rest in on beds made from cardboard.

David Gogishvili, co-author of a peer-reviewed study of the 2020 Games conducted by the University of Lausanne said that"the majority of the measures that have been included in this particular Olympics, and the ones that were particularly mediatised, have a more or less superficial effect."

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