Friends of the Earth Cyprus, in collaboration with Limassol Municipality and Green Dot Cyprus, organised a post parade operation to collect recyclable materials (PMD and glass). The action is part of a broader prevention campaign in the context of the #StopThePlasticFlow project.
Green Dot Cyprus who set up recycling points for PMD
and glass at the start and end of the parade. Using an electronic scale, the volunteers calculated the weight of recyclable materials collected at 2,800 kg (almost 3 tonnes), consisting mainly of empty spray cans, aluminium cans, single-use plastic bottles, drink cartons and glass.
It was clearly an odd race against time, considering the fact that carnivalists and spectators exceeded 140,000 people this year.
According to the most optimistic scenario, the materials collected correspond to 20% of the total quantity of recyclable materials discarded during the big carnival parade.
IUCN released another sport and biodiversity report this week:
Mitigating biodiversity impacts of new sports venues
Sport is often closely associated with the great outdoors. In its very earliest incarnations, the natural landscape was the field of play, while today the success of some outdoor sports relies on natural landscapes. Recognition of these dependencies, as well as a drive to make sport more biodiversity-friendly, has led to an increased interest in sustainable sports development and conservation among sport federations, governments, the private sector and the conservation community.
"For the first time, single-use plastic drinks bottles will not be available to purchase at this year’s Glastonbury Festival. They will also no longer be supplied or available in any of the Festival’s backstage, production, catering and dressing room areas.
For those wishing to drink water – which we certainly do recommend! – we are, once again, encouraging all Festival-goers to use a reusable water bottle and refill it at any of the hundreds of free water taps around the Glastonbury site."
The 2017/18 edition of the Volvo Ocean Race raced around the world with a mission - to accelerate change to restore Ocean Health and bring attention to the critical issue of marine plastic pollution.
This sporting competition spanned nine months, twelve host cities, and saw three million visitors and 100 000 corporate guests.
The global platform was used as a force for good, encouraging positive change amongst the millions of people the Race touched along the way. With a focus in the race villages of no single-use plastic, almost 400 000 plastic bottles and more than a million other items of single-use plastic were avoided.
The Race has an education programme, reaching 100 000 children, and an onboard science programme collecting data on micro-plastic concentration from the remotest parts of the Ocean. The Ocean Summits, held at seven of the host cities, brought together decision makers from government and industry, scientists, solutions innovators and ocean advocates together to make commitments and action.
The Sustainability Report offers a deep dive into the approach to sustainability management, successes and lessons learned.
The mission was made possible with the incredible support from sustainability partners 11th Hour Racing, Mirpuri Foundation, Ocean Family Foundation, Bluewater, Stena Recycling, Volvo, and AkzoNobel. Partnering with UN Environment #CleanSeas
We are looking forward to meet you in the czech capital in spring, because we want to talk about today and tomorrow. Let‘s discuss how we run our operations smarter and how we treat the environment and ourselves more responsible and more sustainable.
A Greener Festival have announced the shortlists for the debut International AGF Awards, which will be hosted following the Green Events & Innovations Conference and ILMC Production Meeting on Tuesday 5th March at the Royal Garden Hotel, London.
Following on from 2018’s #DrasticOnPlastic campaign, the Association of Independent Festivals (AIF) are pleased to announce a sustainability training day to offer festival organisers practical tips and information on running a greener and more environmentally sustainable event.
In January 2019, a group of extraordinary athletes came together to develop an important message to their fans at the Luge World Championships in Winterberg, Germany.
Over two days, from the 4th to the 5th of April 2019, the Sustainable Sport & Events Open Module will provide concrete examples of what leading sports organisations, such as the Olympic Games, Formula E and North-American leagues such as the NHL and NBA are doing.
The module will take place at the Synathlon located on the University of Lausanne Campus in Switzerland.
Great news that UKAS is developing accreditation for the certification of ISO 20121.
This means that certifying bodies will be able to become accredited to certify ISO 20121 - and with this comes prescribed auditing process.
This is important as currently when events apply for third-party audits with certifying bodies, there is no consistency and wildly ranging approaches, and consequently costs to audit.
An accreditation scheme will work to streamline this and offer guidance or requirements on conducting third-party audits on ISO 20121.
An integral part of this scheme is reinforcing the requirement for certifying bodies to ensure the skills and competencies needed to conduct a rigorous and effective audit in events/sustainability are included in the auditing team. This includes ensuring the certifying bodies meet the competencies detailed in the very long entitled:
ISO/IEC 17021: 2015 (Conformity assessment – Requirements for bodies providing audit and certification of management systems) and ISO/IEC TS 17021-4 (Competence requirements for auditing and certification of event sustainability management systems).
More details on competency requirements in auditing ISO 21021 can be found here:
In 2018 individuals and organisations took action to hold corporations accountable for the plastic pollution they force into the marketplace through unnecessary, problematic and excessive throwaway packaging and materials. Break Free From plastic member organisations engaged nearly 10 000 volunteers in 239 cleanups in 42 countries on 6 continents, collecting over 187 851 pieces of plastic pollution.
By adding 'brand audits' to the cleanups, thousands of parent companies were represented in the log. Their analysis reveals the Top Polluters as:
Coca Cola PepsiCo Nestle Danone Mondelez International Procter and Gamble Unilever Perfetti van Melle Mars Incorporated Colgate Palmolive
The top three accounted for 14% of the branded plastic pollution found.
What is heartening is many of these brands realise they must take direct action in producer responsibility of the products they sell in disposable packaging, into markets where no collection system is in place. Reports like this one can only help to accelerate action by producers, government and communities.
We love fibreboard that have been serving a wonderful purpose.
Do you have a fibreboard supplier near you? Here is a terrific one! Xanita board is a sustainable fibreboard manufactured using fibers recovered from recycled paper products such as cardboard boxes.
We've added them to our supplier database so if you're on the look out for a sustainable fibreboard, short cut to find them and other providers there.
Adidas have announced that all athletes on the winning 2019 World Cup team will receive the same performance bonus payout as their male peers for the first time.
Last year the Chinese government dropped a bombshell on the world recycling business: They cut back almost all imports of trash. And now a lot of that plastic gets shipped to other countries that don't have the capacity to recycle it or dispose of it safely.
A wide-ranging sustainable events guide – which provides strategic advice, templates and checklists – has been published by the team responsible for the Special Olympics’ first sustainability programme.
It’s already billed as one of the world’s most challenging competitions, but this year the organizers of the Volvo Ocean Race added an extra dimension to the gruelling 45,000-nautical mile journey—they pledged to host the most sustainable race ever, drastically reduce their use of plastics and change mindsets around the world.
If you’re at Glastonbury festival this summer, look out for a brightly-coloured, 21-metre high windmill. Designed by researchers at the University of Technology in Eindhoven (TU/e), this new, portable gadget may be the key to substantially reducing festivals' CO2 emissions.
It's excellent to see the Events Industry Council creating their event sustainability principles. These dovetail perfectly with the Sustainable Event Alliance's membership charter which can be viewed here:
So great to see we're all on the same page! We hope that the Events Industry Council work in this space will broaden the reach an interest in sustainability amongst the general events population!
All medals at next summer’s Olympics and Paralympics in Tokyo will be made from recycled electronic waste, including discarded smartphones, digital cameras and other handheld games and laptops, organizers have revealed.
The prospect of hosting an Olympic Games will always split the opinion of a city’s inhabitants. Many will see it as an investment. A chance to improve surrounding infrastructure and gain significant exposure. Think London, and how the 2012 Games proved to be the catalyst for the complete transformation of an unloved, neglected and a frankly uninhabitable patch of the UK’s capital.
It's been a busy 2018 for the IOC sustainability team, with reports, publications and strategies unveiled. Marie Sallois and Michelle Lemaitre talk to Sports Sustainability Journal.
We would like to welcome to the Sustainable Event Alliance, our new cohort of event sustainability experts, enthusiasts, and solutions providers to our Leadership Team, who together will guide this professional guild in the coming year.
With global reach, and a huge rang of event sector representation and subject matter expertise, the information, advice, support and resources coming from the Sustainable Event Alliance to the event sector is set to flourish.
As volunteers, these industry professionals are dedicating their time to help the growth of sustainability within the event sector - covering sports, festivals, conferencing, special events, exhibitions and destination marketing.
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