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The Green Cup of Polo is the first social event to be certified 'green' by the leonardo academy. We aim to continue this certification through 2010. To be true to its mission, the event management
incorporates green intelligent practices that decrease the event’s ecological
footprint as much as possible. Through the help of our sponsors the events was even able to obtain certified carbon credits. Other environmental principles include:
- Serving organic and sustainably harvested food in the VIP, hospitality tents, and general admission areas
- Offering organic and sustainably produced
beverages in the VIP area, hospitality tents, and general admission areas.
- All T-shirts for volunteers are fair-trade and
produced from organic cotton, and printed with soy- or vegetable-based ink.
- All marketing material and the program are
printed on at least 30 percent post-consumer recycled paper with soy- or
vegetable-based ink.
- Offering recycling and composting during the
event.
- All serviceware is biodegradable and will be
composted
- Cleaning of the grandstand is done by an
eco-friendly cleaning company, which uses biodegradable and environmentally
friendly cleaning products.
- Environmental education: the event will
showcase environmental organizations and corporations that promote green
living.
- Reusable VIP bags
Did you know?
- Cutting a minute of your shower saves more than 750 gallons of water annually.
- 99 percent of all things we buy are not in use after 6 months.
- For every one garbage can you put out at the curb, 70 cans were filled by all the processes needed in order to make it.
- It takes decades for a cigarette bud to break down: cigarette filters are 100 percent non-biodegradable and contains toxic chemicals, which seep into our water and pollute the soil. Cigarette buds are the largest littering item in the world.
- The US have 5% of the world's population, yet 30% of its waste.
- Chewing gum is litter: Gum is not biodegradable or digestible. Birds (especially young birds) have died by eating gum. Chewing gum is the second largest littering item in the world.
- We throw away 100 billion polyurethane bags annually and only 0.6 percent of plastic bags are recycled.
- It takes about a gallon of gas for 30 pounds of food to be shipped cross-country; the average supermarket food travels 2500 miles.
- Replacing a single incandescent bulb with a Compact Fluorescent Lightbulb (CFL) will keep half a ton CO2 out of the atmosphere over the life of the bulb.
- 40% of all electricity used to power home electronics is consumed while the products are turned off.
- About 85% of all office paper is discarded annually and it takes about 20 trees to make one ton of paper.
- About 97% of the materials that make up a toner cartridge are recyclable; the US consumes more than 600 million ink cartridges a year.
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