The Nike Melbourne Marathon Festival is committed to developing and improving practices and considerations toward a more sustainable festival.
As the largest Marathon in Australia, our goal is to inspire people to keep moving, to promote health and wellbeing and contribute to the sustainable future of our planet, to therefore ensure we will have a platform for our event for future generations to enjoy.
We must continue to consider our small role to ensure that future generations have access to clean fresh air, an abundance of open green spaces and a thriving world to run in.
Compostable Cups on Course
This October, the Nike Melbourne Marathon Festival has teamed up with leading manufacturer and supplier of sustainable paper and board packing solutions, Detpak to provide you fully sustainable and compostable cups at the drink stations.
In line with IMG’s commitment to have an increased focus on the sustainability of the marathon events, the partnership with Detpak and fellow sustainability partner BioGro (who are the commercial composters that take the cups), means a closed loop for waste management of the cups on course.
Planting Trees
CARBON OFFSET & SELF-SUSTAINING BIODIVERSE ECOSYSTEM PROGRAM INITIATED IN 2022. IN PARTNERSHIP WITH
15TREES, 5000 TREES HAVE BEEN PLANTED WITHIN MELBOURNE AND REGIONAL VICTORIA.
Learn more about how we’re working with Fifteen Trees to reduce our carbon footprint.
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