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AP-APTN-0930: UK Olympics Green Wednesday, 8 August 2012 STORY:UK Olympics Green- Olympics on target to meet 'Greenest Games' claim LENGTH: 03:35 FIRST RUN: 0330 RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only TYPE: Eng/Natsound SOURCE: AP/LOCOG VNR/ POOL STORY NUMBER: 853674 DATELINE: London - Recent LENGTH: 03:35 SHOTLIST AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY London - 4 August 2012 1. Wide of Olympic stadium behind flowers 2. Close of Olympic Park flower meadow 3. Wide of people in Olympic Park 4. SOUNDBITE (English) David Stubbs, LOCOG Head of Sustainability: "This was a derelict wasteland with contaminated land, rivers full of rubbish, broken down buildings." LOCOG VNR - AP CLIENTS ONLY London - Date Unknown 5. Wide aerial shot of Olympic Park site at beginning of the stadium construction 6. Various time lapse of work inside stadium 7. Various time lapse of stadium construction AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY London - 4 August 2012 8. Wide of Olympic Stadium 9. Mid of wind turbines at Olympic Park 10. People eating at table 11. Olympic worker explaining recycling bins to Olympic spectator 12. Woman putting her rubbish in separate bins 13. Various of UK Environment Agency workers testing water in the Olympic Park canals AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY Culdrose Airbase - 18 May 2012 14. David Beckham with Olympic torch UK POOL - AP CLIENTS ONLY Hampton Court - 27 July 2012 15. Aerial of torchbearer running through maze at Hampton Court Palace AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY London - 02 August 2012 16. SOUNDBITE (English) Shaun McCarthy, Commission for a Sustainable London 2012 Chairman: "My response to that is well you promised it in 2007 so what were you doing for the two years between 2007 and 2009. There was no excuse for that. They promised it and they didn't deliver it." UK POOL - AP CLIENTS ONLY London, UK - 28 July 2012 17. Aerial of Olympic Stadium and Orbit Tower, with Olympic cauldron and Olympic staff clearing arena for athletics visible 18. Aerial of Olympic cauldron in Olympic stadium AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY Tockwith - 31 July 2012 19. Close up of 3D animation of cauldron on computer screen AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY London - 02 August 2012 20. Set up shot of McCarthy AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY London - 30 July 2012 21. Children with Olympic souvenirs 22. Pan of Olympic merchandise LOCOG VNR - AP CLIENTS ONLY Date Unknown 23. Time lapse of decorative wrap, sponsored by Dow Chemicals, being installed on Olympic Stadium AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY London - 02 August 2012 24. SOUNDBITE (English) Shaun McCarthy, Commission for a Sustainable London 2012 Chairman: "There are issues with the involvement of large corporations as sponsors and the perceived ethical standards of those sponsors and I think the IOC has a responsibility there to drive better standards of corporate behaviour." AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY London - 4 August 2012 25. Wide of people walking through green meadows of Olympic Park 26. SOUNDBITE (English) David Stubbs, LOCOG Head of Sustainability: "We always said we're going towards a one planet Olympics we never said there was an end point. It is always a journey and there's always room for improvement." RIO 2016 VNR - AP CLIENTS ONLY Date Unknown 27. Various of Rio 2016 promotional video AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY London, 2 August 2012 28. People in Russia Park, a centre for the Russian delegation during the London Olympics, walking past banner, reading: "From Russia to Sochi" 29. Set up shot of Sir John Armitt 30. SOUNDBITE (English) Sir John Armitt, Chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority for London 2012: "For the IOC and others that you're bidding to. Any of these federations now will be looking to see a sustainable bid, and without it, you'll get a black mark." AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY London - 4 August 2012 31. Wide of the Olympic Stadium STORYLINE: Olympic officials say London is on track to be the host of the most sustainable games in history. Right back to the bidding process London 2012 organisers set themselves the target of holding a green games. It won the bid on a plan to hold an environmentally and economically sustainable games that would leave a legacy long after the closing ceremony. A major part of the strategy came in the choice of the Olympic Park site at Stratford, a then industrial sprawl contaminated by more than a century of pollution and neglect. "This was a derelict wasteland with contaminated land, rivers full of rubbish, broken down buildings," David Stubbs, LOCOG's Head of Sustainability, recounted. The transformation was and is phenomenal. Two (m) million cubic metres of contaminated soil was excavated from the site, treated and then placed back on the Olympic Park, an operation unprecedented in it scale. The construction of the stadium was also revolutionary, with recycled gas pipes and concrete used to form the structure. The park also uses a range of energy saving devices. The Games food is environmentally and ethically sourced and packaged in recyclable and compostable containers throughout the site. LOCOG is also planning to reuse and recycle 70 percent of the expected 8 thousand tonnes of rubbish created by Olympic spectators and has promised none will go to landfill. Sustainability inspectors tour the site daily to make sure all venues meet their targets and other groups including the UK's Environment Agency also constantly test the park's environmental conditions. London is also the first games to set up an independent watchdog to monitor it's progress. But while the Commission for a Sustainable London 2012 says there is no doubt the event has met its targets the group maintains there is more that LOCOG could and should have done. The Commission's chairman, Shaun McCarthy, points to organisers failure to deliver on a low carbon torch for its Olympic relay. According to McCarthy LOCOG abandoned the project after hitting technical difficulties. "My response to that is well you promised it in 2007 so what were you doing for the two years between 2007 and 2009. There was no excuse for that. They promised it and they didn't deliver it," he said. LOCOG did though deliver on its cauldron which weighs a mere 16 tonnes compared to the 300 tonnes cauldron in Beijing. It also uses 15 percent of the gas of the Beijing cauldron during its unique design. McCarthy claims there are also ethical and sustainability issues involved in the merchandise of the games which he says are often still made in the developing world and under questionable labour conditions. There has also been controversy over the sponsors involved in the games. Most notably, Dow Chemical, which sponsored the decorative wrap around the Olympic Stadium. Dow's sponsorship has drawn protest because of the company's corporate link to the Bhopal disaster in India. "There are issues with the involvement of large corporations as sponsors and the perceived ethical standards of those sponsors and I think the IOC has a responsibility there to drive better standards of corporate behaviour," McCarthy said. Stubbs though claims the legacy of the games outweighs the negatives. The Olympic site will become the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park after the games with many of the venues and infrastructure giving way to even more parkland as well as businesses and entertainment areas. "We always said we're going towards a one planet Olympics we never said there was an end point. It is always a journey and there's always room for improvement." The major question though is who will take up the baton of sustainability after the games. Brazilian officials have been touring London's sustainable venues in search of ideas Rio de Janeiro can use in 2016. Before then though will be the 2014 Winter Olympics in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia. Both have promised to make sustainability a priority, though the message from Olympic officials is, after London, they have little choice. "For the IOC and others that you're bidding to. Any of these federations now will be looking to see a sustainable bid, and without it, you'll get a black mark," said Sir John Armitt, Chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority for London 2012. 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