London 2012 has been the greenest Olympics ever, the commission set up to monitor the environmental impact of the Games has announced.
The independent Commission for a Sustainable London 2012 said recycling and regeneration had been a success.
But it said much more could be done to minimise the impact of future Olympic Games on people and the planet.
Commission chairman Shaun McCarthy said London had set high standards for future Olympic host cities to follow.
Transport success
Previous Olympics have been criticised for the environmental damage they caused through waste, construction and transport.
Sustainability was at the heart of London's bid for the Olympics and the commission said organisers had largely succeeded in achieving it.
For example, the venues were told to be made of at least a quarter recycled materials - that included using disused gas pipes in the Olympic Stadium.
The Olympic Park was praised for regenerating a derelict area and benefiting wildlife, and the commission said it was amazed by the success of public transport.
'Cheerful volunteers'
Mr McCarthy said the use of temporary venues for the Games was "unprecedented".
And he hailed Stratford in east London, the site of the Olympic Park, as one of the best connected places in Europe after long-term investment in public transport infrastructure.
He said London 2012 was the world's first public transport Olympics "despite all the predictions of doom and gridlock".
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On another thread, I quoted the sub standard contradicting themselves completely in the same edition.
Toilet paper.
Plus it was only open to Greeks, and only a 5 day shindig, so not a fair comparison I guess
We are in the recycling phase but the amount of money spent just to be thrown away and recycled seems insane to me and it may be green but it doesn't sit well with me to have such wastage
Only one Olympic Park though.
Damn you. That wins the argument hands down. We shouldn't have bothered bidding for the Olympics if it meant moving on a few houseboats.
And a stretch of the lea useable not like it was before
If we lost a few allotments and some house boats sailed off further up stream
So what
Probably a troll. Ignore.
The country or at least the capital has been show cased.
As for jobs 46k people worked building these games.
It aint a crime for big business to make money.
Welcome to Charlton.
Yes it's true as the excellent WWF report on the success of the sustainability of the games notes here
http://blogs.wwf.org.uk/blog/green-sustainable-living/olympics/my-olympic-park-experience-starting-with-the-positive/
, the temporary relocation of the manor house allotments were the one bad call amongst the very very many good calls made in the development of the Olympic site.
But, be honest, even the sternest critics have noted that the %ge of greenery over the redevelopment site is vastly increased, which you must be pleased about?
100 acres of extra greenery, well thought out planting of trees and the creation of a bogland vital for biodiversity. The brilliant concept of species from 4 continents planted to represent the horticulture of Britain over 500 years by specialists from the University of Sheffield, will be fascinating to see develop as they intertwine with maturity. All grown on recycled green waste compost, by the way.
And the removal of tens of thousands of tonnes of contaminated soil and Europe's largest fridge mountain must also please you?
And the dredging, aerating and rubbish removal from the Lea must make your heart sing?
As the guy from WWF notes, '' it’s hard not to be slightly awestruck.''
Cheer up fella. It's the largest urban park created in the UK since 1850. Isnt that just lovely?
Who is your favourite Charlton player, by the way?
Anna_kissed = anarchist or have I got that completely wrong!
Huge success ---so enjoy it
There will be enough time over the next 4 years to pull it all apart.---------starting with the huge bollox of 46,000 jobs for "locals"
But you knew this, you little rascal, didn't you, as it was the plan way back in 2007, as this BBC article shows.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7009063.stm
Which makes your dramatic 'razed to the ground, gone' statement look awfully lame.
I preferred her as Mona Kissed