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Athletes attending the Tokyo 2020 Olympics will sleep on cardboard beds

For the first time in history, athletes attending the planet's biggest sporting event will 'be' sleeping on a 'hard cover'.

The 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic organizers ordered 26,000 special single beds with a frame made entirely of cardboard and a mattress made from environmentally friendly polyethylene thermoplastic, designed specifically for The athletes compete at 2 important sporting events coming up. The highlight of these beds is that the ability to provide athletes with great comfort is no less than that of traditional beds, while ensuring environmental friendliness - in line with the Olympic spirit. and Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.

According to the Associated Press, these special beds are an initiative of the Japanese mattress company Airweave, with the advantage of being unmatched in strength, even better than some common wooden beds, while still being easy. Easily biodegradable as well as recycled. Takashi Kitajima, head of Olympic logistics and Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, said the beds were 2.1 meters long and could withstand up to 200kg (440 pounds). Such bearing capacity for a single bed is not bad, which can guarantee good service for nearly all athletes.

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After these two sports events, the beds will not be discarded but recycled to create many different plastic products. This is just one of a series of great ideas of the organizers of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics towards the first "green Olympics", in the context of waste and climate change is becoming a problem. Global.

Earlier, the 2020 Tokyo Olympics also agreed to use 100% of medals made of gold, silver and copper extracted from millions of broken old electronics. In addition, 90% of the vehicles used for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games will be electrified, that is, use gasoline-electric (hybrid), battery-powered, or even gas-powered engines. The Olympic torch is made from scrap aluminum, while the award-winning platforms are made from recycled plastic waste. In particular, the electricity for these two sporting events will also be 100% taken from renewable sources.

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