Zero Waste Games

Infrastructure

	Commitments	Actions	Legacy
Games Preparions	Realization of "zero waste" concept in Sochi	Upgrading system of waste treatment in Sochi Reduction of waste in it’s source Stimulation of separate waste collection and waste recycling Non-waste and low-waste technologies during the construction	Up-to-date system of waste management
Games Staging	Realization of «zero waste» concept at Olympic venues	Set of arrangements in the areas of public food catering, hotel accommodation, personal services, sustaining cleanliness	Example of high quality ecological management in waste handing area for all subsequent mass events in Russia and abroad
Post-Games Period	Adaptation of waste management system to municipal needs	Transformation of Mountain and Coastal cluster waste Management systems	Bright example of efficiently organized waste management in resort region as well as for the whole country

It has been planned, during the preparation for holding Winter Games of 2014, to perform a number of interventions in order to introduce «zero waste» principle. This principle is aimed at forming a totally new approach to organization of the collection, processing and neutralization of solid household and biological waste that guarantees sustainable environmental-and-economic development of the whole Sochi region, namely:

waste reduction
waste proccessing
waste recycling

«Zero waste» principle means also «zero losses» principle that implies not only reduced volumes of garbage but also recovery and recycling of used-up products, components and materials that they consist of. Implementation of «Zero waste games» dimension is based on generally avowed initiative 3R — Reuse, Reduce, Recycle.

Proposed scheme of waste treatment is viewed as being a front-edge one not only for the city of Sochi but also for Russia in general, and it implies the following arrangements.

At the stage of preparation for the Games:

formation of a general scheme for cleaning Sochi;
introducing the methods for reduction of waste, emissions and discharges of all kinds related to usage and maintenance of buildings;
liquidation and reactivation of existing waste landfills throughout the Games area, creation of new comprehensive polygons;
creating of complexes for processing solid household and biological waste;
ubiquitous usage of non-waste and low-waste technologies in construction, maximum possible usage of materials derived from the process of secondary raw materials recirculation;
formation of hazardous waste treatment system in Sochi;
broad engagement of public in the process of separate garbage collection and waste recirculation.

During the Winter Games:

organization of system for separate garbage collection, composting and sorting waste generated in connection with Winter Games delivery, including procedures for maintaining cleanliness on the Games’ territory;
minimized volumes of waste in the area of public services, food catering and cleaning through the usage of high technologies;
non-admission of breaching the rules for waste treatment and sustaining cleanliness in the Games’ territory;

In post-Games period:

liquidation of temporary infrastructure facilities with the purpose to reuse their component parts;
no waste may be generated in the process of reprofiling of Olympic facilities;
adapting waste treatment system formed in the period of the Games delivery, to the needs of Sochi;
arrangements to ensure public involvement in furthering organization of separate collection and recirculation of solid household andbiological waste in Sochi.

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