Green around the Beijing Olympics

(NPES International E-commerce Website, August 27 2008) Besides the stadium flooded with competitions and cheers, there is another invisible arena in Beijing Olympics-he green trend can be seen everywhere is attracting world's attention. From the environmental-friendly fireworks of the opening ceremony to the rubbish recycling which amount to more than 80% of the total , from the trash produced by recycled paper to more than 8 million biodegradable plastic bags, the green Olympics bring people one after another pleasant surprise. Environmental protection played a key role on the Olympic arena. Recycled paper, trash, plastic bags, these ordinary things linked so closely with the green Olympic Games, it is unprecedented that “green” around everywhere in the Olympics.
Highlight one: "downsizing" interview certificate.

Detail focus: recycled paper, environmental-friendly ink and a variety of anti-counterfeiting technology
In Beijing Olympics, the first impression when many journalists got their Olympic interview certificate was the interview certificate "thinner" than before. Compared to previous large-scale events, interview certificate of the Beijing Olympic Games is "slender" and the size has reduced.

Moreover, interview certificate of the Beijing Olympic Games also hidden secrets——using a variety of anti-counterfeiting technology, such a small certificate has concentrated complicated techniques, it is much more difficult for its” downsizing”, there are tens of thousands of the interview certificate holder of the Beijing Olympic Games, the saving result of the” downsizing" of the interview certificate is quite substantially.

According to the report, there are more”green” details in this small certificate, like Olympic tickets, they are printed by environmental-friendly ink produced by recycled paper. After the” downsizing", fonts in the certificate have reduced, but this does not affect use.
Highlight Two: the default font of the printer in the media village has reduced.
Detail focus: saving of the paper and ink.

What is brought for athletes in the Olympic village, in addition to the large green grass and trees, all the using paper is recycled paper.
As one of the media villages of this Olympics, "green home" specially set up several media studios. In the studio, journalist can print out a full schedule of one event just on a piece of A4 paper. Printer's default font is small, but clearly, including the game starting time, ending time, game stage and location, all as plain as daylight. Thus, paper and ink have been saved a lot.

Highlight three: mineral water bottles in Olympic venues
Detail focus: 100%recycling
In this session of the Olympic Games, it is stipulated that audience are not permitted to take drinking water into Olympic venues in order to ensure security, in the evening of August 8, in the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in the "nest" , a bottle of drinking water is essential in a small bag which distributed to the audience. In addition, the venue also equipped with a water trough, the tap is marked with "drinking water", and you can drink water when you press the button and also it can be installed into mineral water bottles. All the performance staff, the news media staff and all the audience has distributed with drinking water, there are more than 100,000 mineral water bottles on the scene which has been effectively recycled and added into the “garbage collection of Olympic venues “system.

It is understood that the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee had been signed with relevant departments beforehand, the plastic bottles in the competition venues during the Olympic Games in Beijing will be100% green recycled and reuse. All the renewable resources in Olympic venues will be recycled through formal channels and conveyed into renewable resources factory, finally, the utilization rate of the household garbage during the Olympics reaches 50%.

Highlight four: 30 thousand pieces of children's paintings
Detail focus: all the using paper is recycled paper
During the Beijing Olympic Games, there are 30,000 pieces of children’s paintings with the Olympics and the environment theme beautifully decorated apartments and information centers in Beijing Olympic Village. Athletes and media reporters from all over the world can enjoy Chinese children’s paintings about the Olympic Games in the room.

According to the person in charge of the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee, these paintings are all printed on recycled paper which young people changed by waste and used newspapers, and mounted by environmental-friendly materials. What is worth mentioning is that this is also the first time to use children’s painting to decorate Olympic Village in Olympic history, rather than the "famous masterpiece".

After the Olympics, these excellent paintings selected from previous series drawing competitions of "green dream and colorful painting of the Olympic Games", will also serve as precious gifts which presented to athletes and officials from other countries.
Highlight five: “environmental protection corner” in the Olympic Village.
Detail focus: five bottles of Coke can change for an environmental-friendly T-shirt
In the busy commercial and cultural centre in the Olympic village, there is an eye-catching “environmental protection corner", messages of Green Olympics are transmitted from here every day: athletes and officials from every delegations will be warmly welcomed by volunteers and presented a free T-shirt.

"T-shirt change activity is the incentive for environmental protection supporters which let more people know that Coke bottles can be recycled. The production raw material of every environmental-friendly T-shirt is five discarded cola bottles. If there are 7 cola bottles, it is also can produce a waist bag which more than one pocket.” A volunteer said. Many people felt surprising when received this T-shirts which looks very ordinary.
On August 5, Lang Ping, the U.S. women's volleyball coach, came to the "environmental protection corner" in the International Olympic Village area; she changed an environmental-friendly T-shirt by five bottles of Coke. In the first day when Zhao Ruirui ,China’s volleyball player and Green Olympics Ambassador , inhabited into the Olympic village, she also came to the "environmental protection corner" in the Olympic Village , she selected a large-size environmental-friendly T-shirt.

Coca-Cola Company, as one of the Beijing Olympic sponsors, is the organizer of this event, the company's souvenir medal exchange ambassadors Xi Chen explained: "these T-shirts are all produced by five plastic bottles of Coke which 53 % is recycled materials and 47% is cotton.”
According to the staff’s introduction, there are more than 8,000 registered Olympic athletes and staff changed a white and red characters T-shirt by a Coke bottle in 17 days.

Highlight six: work platform in news canter
Detail focus: production of recycled paper, beautiful design, light and firm.
What left the deepest impression to Yang Lan, Beijing Olympic Games’ bid image Ambassador is that business cards of all staff are printed by recycled paper from the day when the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee established.
In fact, as early as in NPC&CPPCC, she have had mentioned the proposal, we should vigorously advocate energy-saving construction. Many aspects of Beijing Olympic Games have taken the concept of green. Now what impresses she is that work platforms in news canter are made of recycled paper, both light and strong, it was said that they can be used more than four years.
It is said that the London Olympic Organizing Committee have taken a favor to this batch of equipment, they said that when the Beijing Olympic Games finished, they would take them to London, because this batch of equipment is very practical and very light.
Highlight seven: 100-meter environmental bench in the Olympic Forest Park.
Detail focus: reproduced by abandoned Tetra packages.
The Olympic Forest Park which in the north of the "nest" featuring by its beautiful environment, and what draws people’s attention is the environmental-friendly bench with a total length of over 100 meters. Those simple and modern designed benches are reproduced by more than 123,900 abandoned tetra packages.
It is said that the bench is donated by Tetra Pak China Co., Ltd. Tetra Pak China's vice president of corporate communications Miss Yang Bin, said: "Tetra Pak Company has always attached importance to environmental protection, and dedicated to create green industry chain. We hope that more people understand the environmental protection value of Tetra package through these benches, actively participate in recycling and environmental protection activities together.