Is sport environmentally friendly? ⠀

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3-4 times a week, my day starts with a run. 

Running appeared in my life in the summer of 2016, but quickly disappeared, and then I acquired normal running shoes in 2017.

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Running for me is meditation, time alone with myself and at the same time inside the environment (city, beach, forest, park). I run outside all year, except for a couple of slippery months in winter. ⠀

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As I said earlier, in June I participated in my first group race and was at school from the starter pack of the runner, then from plastic cups on the track and the lack of RSO on the site. ⠀

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But last Sunday, I gave a lecture on conscious eco-habits in life and sports and decided to write out the main decisions here so that our runs would be more environmentally friendly for the planet. ⠀

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• Do not litter while playing sports. ⠀

• Use reusable bottles (there are folding) and take plastic disposable bottles for recycling! ⠀

• Take care of your equipment. ⠀

Carefully read the labels on the clothes, do not neglect the instructions for caring for them and do not run after the new collection of the brand. ⠀

• Sell or give inappropriate equipment (Running flea market ”on social networks, charity for sports schools) ⠀

• Hand over the old for recycling ⠀

• Use what you put in the starter pack or find those who are interested. Sharing is caring! 

• Support the eco-initiatives of brands, making them more affordable in the future and encouraging to invent natural fabrics abruptly more technologically advanced synthetics (Nike, for example, has shoppers made from T-shirts made from recycled bottles♻️) ⠀

• Participate in local races and organize eco-plogging races (separate garbage collection with running partners while jogging) ⠀

• Install the filter on the washing machine or buy a washing bag to hold the microplastic (marked in the left corner of the brand). All synthetic tissues break up into microparticles, and these fibers enter the World Ocean.