The 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France will officially kick off on July 26. In order to reduce the carbon footprint of the world's largest sports event, nearly 11,000 seats in two competition venues, including water sports, will be filled from trash cans. Made of recycled plastic to promote and practice the environmentally friendly concept of sustainable use.
In order to reduce the carbon footprint of the Paris Olympic Games, a French start-up company established in 2018 worked with an environmentally friendly construction and recycling company to turn 100 tons of recycled waste plastic into 11,000 spectators We hope to make the 2024 Paris Olympics synonymous with Green Olympics.
Benjamin Saint-Mard, commercial director of the French startup company, explained, “We have more than 50 cooperative recycling manufacturers who come to recycle plastics, collect recycling waste wrapped in yellow recycling bins, and then classify them into different types of plastics. We get plastics in various forms, especially those that would be incinerated or buried, as our raw materials.”
These recycled plastics will be cleaned, crushed into particles, and then sorted. They can then be made into high-density and hard panels using thermal compression technology, which can then be made into various types of furniture, including spectator seats for the Paris Olympics.
These 11,000 spectator seats made of recycled plastic were installed at the Adidas Arena, which will host badminton and rhythmic gymnastics events, and the Paris Olympic Aquatics Center, which will host diving, water ballet, water polo and other events.
Benjamin said, "Our company is proud of the success of this project and is proud to have developed from a start-up to a real enterprise in the field of sustainable materials today."
The Paris Olympic Aquatics Center is located in Seine-Saint-Denis, northeast of Paris. Eighty percent of the plastic used to make the recycled spectator seats came from the local area, and local students were also mobilized to participate, hoping to cultivate the next generation to reduce carbon and love the earth. concept.
The Paris Olympics will be held from July 26 to August 11. The organizers also encourage people to use public transportation during the Olympics, hoping that the carbon emissions of this Olympics will be reduced by half compared to previous ones.
Source: PTV News Network
