How is Coca-Cola helping to make London 2012 the most sustainable games to date?
Coca-Cola is already working closely with London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) to understand how we can promote recycling within the venues and are looking at every aspect of our Olympic Games plans – from the uniforms our staff will wear to the type of fridges we use to chill our drinks – to ensure we reduce our environmental impact wherever possible. Coca-Cola has already been hailed as green sponsors by the organising committees of the Summer and Winter Games of Sydney, Salt Lake City, Athens and Turin. Greenpeace awarded us the ‘first green medal’ of the Beijing Games for our environmentally-friendly cooling systems and our local water community projects. In addition, most of the drinks that we will supply during the London 2012 Games will be manufactured at our plant in Edmonton, just a few miles from the Olympic Park.
