Japan equipped with a cardboard bed in the Olympic village, extremely rugged, bearing a load of nearly 200kg

Recently, the organizers of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics have taken another step forward in organizing a more environmentally friendly Olympics, when officially introducing the cardboard beds to be used in the village. Olympic in the future.

Although made from cardboard, these beds are extremely rugged, with a maximum load capacity of nearly 200kg. However, the manufacturer also noted that the bed is still likely to break at the joints, if the athletes perform vigorous activities such as continuous jumping on the bed.

At the end of the Olympics, these beds will be recycled into paper products, while the cushions will be recycled into plastic products. Also according to the organizers, this is the first time in the history of the Olympic athlete’s beds to be made from recyclable and environmentally friendly materials.

In total, there will be about 18,000 cardboard beds made for the upcoming Olympics.

In the last few years, environmental activists have criticized the Olympic organizers “doing everything they can to pursue glamor instead of focusing on sustainable development.” Take the 2018 Olympic Stadium in Pyeongchang, for example, which cost $ 100 million to build but was dismantled shortly after the Olympics ended.

The flashy Pyeongchang Stadium was dismantled shortly after the 2018 Olympics ended

Besides, the problem of accommodation for athletes attending the Olympic also faces many problems – when at the Sochi 2014 and Rio 2016 Olympics, when the athletes arrived, the accommodations were not available. complete.

And it looks like the organizers of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics are trying hard not to repeat the problems of the previous Olympics, like using recycled materials to make medals, or recycled cardboard beds. can be processed as above.

According to Business Insider