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SailGP needs to work on its green credentials

Sail GP makes a lot of claims about single use plastics. However its OK with plastic tat and I'll be generous here "double use" plastics.

By that I mean (alert first world problem) people arriving at the main spectator event in Sydney had any disposable water bottles were confiscated  and thrown away at the ferry to the island.

We were then given France Sail GP plastic water bottles (edit on review it tuns out to be aluminium) of the corporate tat no one would actually buy grade - while the law may describe this and not single use, in reality it is. I'll not be using mine. Many were left on the island.

We also got a breakfast in cardboard with plastic disposable lid inside a mini sail GP Esky bag. Again free corporate grade. Really its just disposable, many again, were left behind on the island, Add the lunches in same packaging and sauces those plastic lids went to about 4. The lids were fully transparent and there for unlikely to be recycled. Defiantly not reusable - plastic and straight to landfill. 

Probably the worst was glasses and cans. It was a can bar, whist not plastic, cans are disposable and I suspect plastic coated. The wine glasses, well they were again not officially single use but they were not being refilled, new glass with every wine pour and I saw no sign of washing up on the island.

 The cups in question are not high grade, you can get genuinely nice plastic glasses. These cups I do re use, but they cloud and scratch easy. I'll bet every single one of them was brand new and I doubt they'll be used again. 

The most generous I can be about Sail GP's 'Single use plastic' is its a hollow marketing slogan. Running the event on an island in the middle of the harbour is probably as hard as can be from a practical point of view. Glass may have been banned by edict. But refilling was an absolute minimum I'd expect from someone who threw away full water bottles on the ferry.

The plastic flags, could of and should have been paper
I'll let the giant Slingsby heads go. The kids liked them and someone was carrying one to the event, probably from  a previous one.

But apart from the severed head of Tom Slingsby is was mostly plastic tat. I shall be writing to sail GP about this - and asking the fate of all the glasses. If they answer I'll post it. If they send me plastic tat I'll post  a rant!