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Australian firm to supply ‘green’ bags for Olympics

Biograde’s compostable bags
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA (June 17, 2008) -- An Australian bioplastic manufacturer has won a contract to provide biodegradable packaging to the Beijing 2008 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Biograde Ltd., headquartered in Melbourne, will supply seven types of bag to Olympic organizers for use as bin liners, branded show bags and waste management bags. Factors that played a key role in the committee’s choice of Biograde were that its bags meet the European compostability standard, a requirement of the committee, and the fact that the packaging can be produced at the company’s plant in Nanjing, Jiangsu province.

Olympics going green with biodegradable plastic
SHANGHAI (May 6, 2008) – Come August when the Beijing Olympic Games commence, the trash of about 3 million visitors could turn to gold for the right plastics company. Beijing is loathe to fill up its landfills with the discarded plastic forks, cups and plates that will inevitably accumulate during the event and is looking to compost sites and biodegradable plastics to solve its dilemma.

Bayer coating cushions Beijing’s ‘Bird’s Nest’

Beijing National Stadium, or ‘Bird’s Nest’
BEIJING (January 22, 2008) -- Bayer MaterialScience AG’s coating systems will be used on a second high-profile Olympic games venue in Beijing: the immense tangle of steel popularly known as the “Bird’s Nest.” The system relies on water as a solvent to disperse coatings resin, which releases fewer volatile organic chemicals and fits with Beijing’s desire for a large “green” Olympics in August. The aim of Bayer’s coating systems includes providing cushioning and resistance to structural damage.

Water Cube structure features ETFE foil membranes


The Water Cube
BEIJING (March 29, 2007) – The organizers of the 2008 Olympic Games claim the city’s spectacular new National Aquatics Center, also dubbed the Water Cube, fully represents the concept of an environmentally friendly Olympics. Additionally, they assert that the building, which consists of more than 100,000 square meters (or 1.08 million square feet) of ethylene tetrafluoroethylene foils, is “the single largest, most complicated and most comprehensive ETFE structure in the world to date.”

  
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