Paris will host the Olympics without single-use plastic

This summer the city of Paris will host some Olympics what will they be the first without single-use plasticas explained in the forum on waste held in Girona today, the waste in progressresponsible for advising the French capital on the circular economy, Justine Laurent.

Laurent is director of the company Circulab, which collaborates with the Paris municipality fight against isolated American plasticslooking for alternatives today.

Although the battle started much earlier, in 2020, with a action plan until 2030 To put an end to this particular type of waste, the Olympics have become an “accelerator,” according to this expert.

The actions take place on various fronts, such as the promotion of tap water consumption through a network of 1,200 fountains and 900 points in establishments. There, everyone can refill their bottles for free, and the food containers will be reusable, for which the city is currently working to connect all the operators needed to run the system.

HE They will also avoid promotional itemsand existing ones will have no packaging or will be made of alternative materials.

In any case, Justine Laurent points out that the Bioplastic or degradable plastic is not part of that alternative.a, and that the priority is to avoid disposable items and replace them ‘with nothing or with reuse’.

The areas where the matches take place lack plastic soft drink bottles, which are served in reusable cups or recyclable glass bottles.

Tourists, and especially the various national delegations, will be informed through this policy communication packages which will be available in restaurants and hotels.

Paris boasts that the Olympic Games will be the first to have a person on the planning team who focuses exclusively on the circular economy.