If you want to choose a theme for the upcoming Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics in July this year, it should be environmental protection! In order to reduce the waste of resources, the organizers have set 99% of the procurement for the event. Items can be reused or recycled. The entire venue uses 100% renewable energy to generate electricity, and the organizers recently announced that the bedding in the contestant village will be based on this principle, using recyclable cardboard beds and polyethylene mattresses.
A total of 18,000 beds are needed for this years Olympic Village and 8,000 for the Paralympics. The organizers collaborated with official partner Japanese mattress company Airweave to create a bed frame made of high-strength cardboard that can support a maximum weight of 200 kilograms (at the 2016 Rio Olympics, no athlete exceeded this threshold ). The polyethylene mattress can be divided into three parts to support the head, waist, and legs respectively. The hardness of each part can be customized according to the shape of the players body, and is matched with a pillow with an indent in the center. Players can get good support whether they sleep on their back or side. As for the quilts covered by the players, they are blue and white down quilts with the words Tokyo 2020 printed on them.
This is the first time in the history of the Olympics and Paralympics that the bedding in the Athletes Village is almost entirely made of renewable materials, in order to show the world how to use resources more efficiently. After the competition, all bed frames and mattresses will be recycled and remade into paper and plastic products. In addition to the bedding in the Athletes Village, the previously announced Olympic medals are made of discarded electronic products, and the Olympic torch uses recycled aluminum from discarded building materials from the prefabricated houses where victims of the 311 earthquake lived. The awards podium was made from recycled household and marine waste. I believe that before the event starts, we should see more environmentally friendly and green demonstrations that we have or have not thought of.
