I did some searching on here and found quite a few posts about recycling at races but did not find much about specific races that are currently recycling or going green. Can anyone tell me which races are currently making recycling a priority and what their efforts include?
It is amazing how much garbage even a 500 person race can produce so our tri club will be working harder on recycling at local races this year. While its tempting at the end of a race to chuck everything in a dumpster and head for home, it won’t take that much longer to separate out the plastic water bottles, cardboard and aluminum cans at the very least. We will also likely skip the traditional plastic goodie bags this year since much of the contents usually gets tossed in the trash eventually anyway.
Any info on which races are recycling is appreciated!
we recycled at Mooseman and Timberman last year…Adding Lone Star and Longhorn Ironman 70.3 Austin to the mix for next year. We’re also working again with offsetting emissions too, with Clif Bar.
Check out 5430 sports in Boulder. I did the long course a couple years ago and went to the boulder peak last year and both races had great recycling programs. In addition to the different collection sites, they had a booth where you could purchase wind power to offset your travel miles to the race. Come to think of it, I think the wind farms were in the tri-shark area! They also had whole foods as one of the sponsors so the goodie bags were whole foods re-usable shopping bags.
Check out the Portland Tri. It’s supposed to be “sustainable and organic” (their words)
yes, indeed, we do have windmills all along our Tri-Shark bike course now. And, the Evergreen tri will likely have windmills on that bike course too within a few years. Interesting idea on purchasing wind power to offset travel miles. I’ll have to check that out with our local wind farm companies. Thanks for the suggestions.
Thanks for all the race recycling leads.
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What is super neat in N. Illinois - even if you do put your trash in the “proper” containers - they just mix it all at the dump! In Rockford there is not the ability to handle the volume of what is actually attempted to be recycled and thus one truck comes, puts all of the trash from all containers into the same hopper! Just be happy knowing that most of the trash from our events is either re-used (watter bottles) or degradable.
The easiest thing to recycle that we would MAYBE use is plastic, and most of that is not recycled. We dont use much steel, aluminium or glass.
5430 Races in Boulder- very wel oganised and they are super eco-friendly. Very impressive
Weeman