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The Purple Track at the 2024 Summer Olympic Games Has a Secret Ingredient
Recycled shells of mollusks native to the Mediterranean Sea were used to manufacture the synthetic floor of the athletics track, as part of the Games’ commitment to sustainability.
Instead, the company that designed the track for the 2024 Summer Olympics, Mondo, teamed up with a fisher’s cooperative to gather shells of bivalve mollusks from the Mediterranean Sea, such as mussels and clams, which are rich in the material. Its fishers cleaned and dried waste shells from harvested mussels and clams, grounded them into a fine powder, and sent the material to the flooring manufacturer to make the track. A worker inside Mondo’s factory in Alba, Italy, making material for the athletes track for the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games.Photograph: Stefano Guidi/Getty Images
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