WATCH: The Tokyo2020 organizing committee has hung its hat on providing a ‘beyond carbon neutrality’ event, a goal it will meet with cardboard beds, medals made from recycled small appliances and podiums 3D printed from plastic waste
Electric cars ferry competitors and media between venues, many of which are temporary constructions made of recycled wood that will be dismantled after the Games, preventing the white elephant stadiums left behind in other host cities.
"What we have seen is now everybody is much more aware that everybody has a role to play in climate action," said IOC sustainability development chief Marie Sallois.The gold, silver and bronze medals were forged from recycled metal from old mobile phones and other small appliances donated by the general public in an initiative started back in 2017. The 3D-printed victory ceremony podiums were crafted from plastic waste.
The athlete's village, where competitors sleep on cardboard beds, will be turned into into apartment complex after the Games and continue to be partially powered by hydrogen fuel cells.A recyclable cardboard bed and a mattress are pictured in a residential unit for athletes during a media tour at the Olympic and Paralympic Village for the Tokyo 2020 Games, in Tokyo, Japan June 20, 2021.
“We are able to create, collect enough credits to offset and actually go beyond the carbon neutrality,” Tokyo 2020 international communication manager Eduardo Martinez said.Sustainability measures generally declined over 16 summer and winter Games held between 1992 and 2020, according to an analysis published in the journal Nature Sustainability in April.
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