Green Olympics. Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo announced Friday that the city plans to ban single-use plastic during the 2024 Olympic Games as part of efforts to tackle the global plastic pollution crisis.
"We decided to make the Olympic Games the first major event without single-use plastic," Hidalgo told a news conference at a session of the International Forum of Mayors Against Plastic Pollution.
Visitors to the Olympic competition sites in the French capital will be welcomed without plastic bottles. Coca-Cola, the U.S. beverage giant and main sponsor of the Paris Olympics, will distribute its products in reusable glass bottles at more than 200 stations. Reusable cups will also be used during the Olympic marathon.
"Plastic waste remains a major global issue: every year 14,000 mammals and 1.4 million seabirds are killed due to ingesting plastic waste," Hidalgo said.
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