Yachting association undertaking "clean regatta" initiative
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GENEVA LAKE — The Inland Lake Yachting Association is following the lead of a national organization in trying to reduce the amount of waste associated with running a sailing regatta.
"As an association, we need to do what we can to make sure that our environment is left at least as good as we found it," Rick Trester, commodore of the ILYA, was quoted as saying in the group's recent newsletter.
The organization Sailors For the Sea promotes ways that regatta organizers and participants can go green.
The ILYA X Championship in Clear Lake, Iowa, will be run as a clean regatta along with the C Nationals at the Maxinkuckee Yacht Club in Indiana.
Trester said he would like to see the ILYA make a push to eliminate disposable water bottles at ILYA events.
At last years ILYA Annual Championship in Lake Geneva, race organizers handed out more than 2,000 disposable bottles of water.
Nationally, less than 30 percent of disposable water bottles get recycled. Focusing on recycling water bottles will be an improvement but the best answer is to encourage sailors to bring reusable water bottles, according to the newsletter.
Trester has asked all of our regatta organizers to have water stations available at our events to refill their water bottles.
Source: www.ilya.org
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