## Recycling the Olympic rings
_By Editorial Staff, Resource Recycling_
As the 2012 Olympic Games wrap up, hundreds of plastic panels that were used to encase the stadium will either be recycled or reused.
The Dow Chemical Company, the "Official Chemistry Company of the Olympic Games," has announced that it has partnered with Axion Recycling and the anti-poverty charity Article 25 to repurpose and recycle the textile stadium wrap that was used to enclose the stadium.
Dow and Article 25 are working with the Bola Pra Frente Institute, a Brazilian organization that works with at-risk youth, to build a shaded community area at the group's new facility in Rio de Janeiro, the city that will host the 2016 games. The panels will largely remain in the same state they were when they were attached to the Olympic stadium. Axion Recycling will work with Dow to find other projects to reuse the remaining panels or recycle them.
Organizers of this year's summer Olympics said that they would set a new standard for sustainability for the sporting event and plan to issue a definitive report on the success of their efforts.
In an interview with Public Radio International, Allen Hershkowitz, senior scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council, praised the sustainability initiatives of the organizers of the games.
"The sports industry is non-political," Hershkowitz told PRI. "So, if there was ever an industry that could confirm for us the non-partisan mainstream nature of environmental stewardship and the need for better environmental stewardship, the sports industry is a great spokesperson for that cause."
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