Like any mass participation event, climate concerns are a growing part of marathon planning
50,000 runners will race in the 43rd London Marathon on Sunday and then head home with participant medals around their necks and silver foil blankets around their tired shoulders. And they will leave a large carbon footprint in their wake.
Travel has the biggest environmental impact on large marathons, and so a £26 carbon levy to help offset greenhouse gas emissions is part of the entry fee for international participants. Oluseyi Smith, who competed for Canada in both the 2012 Summer Olympics in athletics and the 2018 Winter Olympics in the bobsleigh, has made sustainability in sport his career since he quit competition and became an engineer.
“Hopefully I’m not being a hypocrite when I say that I have not kept the majority of them, which is not ideal, and I think in hindsight it would have been better if the option wasn’t there.”Chapman said that would not sit well with participants, however. Among London’s other initiatives: Water bottles and finisher bags are recyclable, leftover food will be donated to a food waste charity, and most of the official vehicles are electric.
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