UK ULTRA SUSTAINABILITY

We have the following in place:

-We have a fantastic artist design our medals and this artwork will always remain the same. Changing medals every year might seem nice however, no matter what any race company tells you, there is always lots of waste from this. Using the same design allows us to reuse medals continuously every year. This means of course no dates are on the medals. 

-The biggest way events can reduce emissions and their Carbon Footprint is from travel. We have updated all but one of our events now to be single looped races where the start and finish are in the same place. Point to point races create an awful lot of emissions which we wanted to cut out. This greatly reduces the emissions from travel, and almost all the events are very close to a train station which is a much more preferred form of travel to reduce emissions allowing people to walk to the start. The one race that is a point to point we offer a bus service from the finish to the start line to reduce emissions.

-We have recently cut out offering single use energy gel packets at our race Aid Stations. These essentially go straight to landfill. We have replaced these with mor homemade tray bake goods and will be working with company Dirt Bags

Along with this we have tried to make all our Aid Station food either vegetarian or vegan and have achieved this with all but one menu item.

We have removed plastic cups from our events. Runners must bring own foldable cup.

-Any cardboard from our office is recycled

-We have asked our suppliers to remove plastic packaging from merchandise and have now made our online shop mainly pick up from events where possible reducing the emissions from postage. We do still offer this but almost all of our online purchases are done by entrants that collect them at the events saving on postage.

-We have recycling bins at the start/finish of our events and also go through all bags of waste from the Aid Stations after to separate the rubbish from recycling.

-We don't offer free finisher t-shirts but do offer them for a fee. This reduces lots of waste as only people that really want one will choose to pay. The t-shirts have again been designed by the same artist that does our medals and these get reused every year reducing waste. We have changed these occasionally where routes have changed and we have also changed suppliers bit on the whole they remain the same.

-We have taken away plastic ribbons for marking and replaced them with recyclable paper. We now use only reusable cable ties.

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We have the following in place:

-We have a fantastic artist design our medals and this artwork will always remain the same. Changing medals every year might seem nice however, no matter what any race company tells you, there is always lots of waste from this. Using the same design allows us to reuse medals continuously every year. This means of course no dates are on the medals. 

-The biggest way events can reduce emissions and their Carbon Footprint is from travel. We have updated all but one of our events now to be single looped races where the start and finish are in the same place. Point to point races create an awful lot of emissions which we wanted to cut out. This greatly reduces the emissions from travel, and almost all the events are very close to a train station which is a much more preferred form of travel to reduce emissions allowing people to walk to the start. The one race that is a point to point we offer a bus service from the finish to the start line to reduce emissions.

-We have recently cut out offering single use energy gel packets at our race Aid Stations. These essentially go straight to landfill. We have replaced these with mor homemade tray bake goods and will be working with company Dirt Bags

Along with this we have tried to make all our Aid Station food either vegetarian or vegan and have achieved this with all but one menu item.

We have removed plastic cups from our events. Runners must bring own foldable cup.

-Any cardboard from our office is recycled

-We have asked our suppliers to remove plastic packaging from merchandise and have now made our online shop mainly pick up from events where possible reducing the emissions from postage. We do still offer this but almost all of our online purchases are done by entrants that collect them at the events saving on postage.

-We have recycling bins at the start/finish of our events and also go through all bags of waste from the Aid Stations after to separate the rubbish from recycling.

-We don't offer free finisher t-shirts but do offer them for a fee. This reduces lots of waste as only people that really want one will choose to pay. The t-shirts have again been designed by the same artist that does our medals and these get reused every year reducing waste. We have changed these occasionally where routes have changed and we have also changed suppliers bit on the whole they remain the same.

-We have taken away plastic ribbons for marking and replaced them with recyclable paper. We now use only reusable cable ties.

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