2012 Olympics
When the bid was submitted for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, LOCOG, The London 2012 Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, pledged not just to host the biggest sporting event in the world but also to stage the first truly sustainable Games. Central to this was an ambitious target to send zero waste from Games-time venues directly to landfill – something that no Games has attempted before. In February 2012 an initiative was launched to share the lessons learnt from delivering a zero waste games with the wider waste and events community.
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