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Event organizers are making great strides to think outside the box about being “green”, they have tons of press releases about how they “green” the event, and the people who attend have a warm, fuzzy feeling that they are green. However, it didn’t take long for people to choose convenience over reading by putting plastic in the nearest bin rather than the designated bin. While some people go the full nine meters to recycle, be sustainable, and only buy green products, the mass of the public still has an interest in instant satisfaction, convenience, and a comfortable lifestyle.
South African cities had a lot of good ideas for greening the World Cup, but can the public implement these concepts and actually stick to the plan. Being “green” may be fashionable, but another current trend is to put country flags on cars and blow vuvulezes.
The flags stuck to the cars show our pride in our countries, but Cape Town is known as the Cape of Storms for a reason. Few have already found their way into the gutters and trees on the roadsides. The question is also whether the flags will last through the winter, will they continue to be used after the hype is over, or whether the landfills and heaps of rubbish in our cities will be decorated with cocktail flags. Then there are vuvulas; Regardless of the obvious flaws, with the noise pollution and the amount of plastic that was used to make them, where will these plastic chaos creations be thrown away after the game?
Before the World Cup started, there were (and still are) problems with what we are going to do with the stadiums after the event. While stadiums are being built with sustainability in mind, the idea of ??never using them again is unsustainable given that the definition of sustainability is “Can be continued with minimal long-term environmental impact.”
This event focused on two large “green” projects. These projects, along with others, were funded by the Global Environment Fund, which donated $ 1 million. The first was to green all lighting in and around the stadiums with solar panels. 12 billboards with 60 traffic lights and 78 street lamps will go to solar energy.
The second is the Green Passport, an initiative to encourage visitors to make ‘green’ choices while in the country. The Green Passport is a 32-page brochure that will be distributed to 100,000 World Cup spectators. Think it over – that’s 320,000 pages of paper given to viewers who are there to watch the game. Consider what you are doing when you receive the brochure while waiting at the traffic lights or the event program at the conference.
Hopefully the co-organizers of the event have placed a “paper” basket in a convenient location, otherwise they could end up in the vicinity of the lost flags.
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Source by Celeste Maxine Yates