In recent years the sport has been synonymous with racing, mass, joy, health, major sporting events ... but never have been synonymous with the environment.
Space, territory and sports are important elements of quality of life for people who can provide answers to some of the needs arising from economic, social and cultural. For this reason the binomial sport and the environment must go hand in hand with projects and lead to actions and strategies towards more sustainable models, more environmentally friendly.
The sport, like any human activity, requires the use of resources that can generate an environmental impact. This is most evident in major sporting events that move a large number of participants and spectators, as can be the Granollers Half-Marathon The Franqueses-La Garriga, popularly known as "The Middle".
The medium is not only a sporting event but encompasses many areas, social, cultural, and city. In this regard, we propose 2 years we move towards a more sustainable model, we wanted to be more environmentally friendly. It was this that produced an Environmental Management Plan for the purpose of applying to different environmental measurements within a sporting event so important.
We take a snapshot of the race and we were about 9 out possible lines of action, but from the fact that it is not easy to influence an event which involved over 10,000 people decided to act on 5 lines, trying to consolidate 19 actions.
1. Improving the management of waste generated in the entire event
• Control of waste generated in the official presentation of the Medium (appetizer)
• Implementation of separate collection of numbers at the end of the race
• Installation of toilets in the output of clothing and containers for the collection of jerseys of the same corridors.
• Installation of container in the aid stations with a "recistella" that focus and promote the release of empty bottles in the container.
• Provision of separate collection containers upon arrival at the Olympic Palace for packaging, paper and cardboard and organic matter.
2. Advancing best practice environmental
• Registrations via Web
• Set up separate collection for the spectators of the event
• New image of a medium that respects the environment
• Involvement of a group of green volunteers to inform people about the selective collection and other questions
• posters of Best Practices for water conservation
• Reporting at all times of the measures taken to raise awareness of environmental information.
3. Apply corrective measures focusing on the work of printing the volume of requests
• Reduction of posters
• Application of environmental criteria in the press according to the procedures of the EMAS environmental management system.
4. To study the alternatives for controlling and reducing vehicle emissions
• Exposure on the differences between conventional and electric vehicles on the day of the event.
• Use of electric vehicles throughout the race to promote the action plan for improving air quality introduced by the Government by reducing the inconvenience of smoke and noise runners and spectators.
• Agreements with trains of Catalonia to promote public transport free transport within the metropolitan area. Surveys of mobility corridors.
5. Establish systems of indicators of different environmental
• Dissemination of the objectives and methodology of the management system.
Last year the objective was to consolidate the 5 lines above and two lines were started:
1. Improve control of supplies gifts
2. Create new tools for communication and dissemination activities
Apart from the advantages of implementing this Environmental Management Plan in terms of control and cost savings, this event should follow as necessary with the participation of volunteers, contributors, organizers, sponsors and brokers, in a improvement process to ensure environmental improvement and to establish mechanisms to compare the evolution over the years.
In short the idea is to go step by step, establishing the potential lines, always with common sense.
The half-marathon runner knows he has to train constantly, needed little effort to reach your daily goal. We want to be like them: working with perseverance the race that day also we can achieve our goal: a more sustainable medium.
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