At the Genesis Scottish Open, we are committed to creating a sustainable event.
To help reduce our environmental impact we are:
- Providing multiple recycling bins around the course.
- Installing water stations across the course and Championship village for players, spectators and staff and encouraging the use of reusable water bottles.
- Ensuring our on-course catering outlets use only wooden cutlery, paper straws, 100% biodegradable food trays and 100% compostable hot drink cups.
- Ensuring our generators on-site are run on HVO Bio- fuel.
- Using a soluble dosing cleaning system to help reduce the amount of single-use plastics
- Using a chemical-free cleaning method in our hospitality areas
- Ensuring all our branding is made from recyclable and sustainable materials.
- professional/fan travel, are offset through The Gold Standard.
- Local Sourcing: local suppliers and seasonal foods are prioritised and celebrated.
- Carbon Neutral: 100% of our unavoidable carbon emissions, including tournament operations, event transportation and
- Transport: increased public transport provision from Edinburgh with free shuttle buses running from Longniddry Rail Station and augmented service bus X5 and 124 timetables.
- Paperless: digital ticketing and programmes to reduce paper waste, ink use and haulage.
- SSSI: working with NatureScot to preserve areas of The Renaissance Club under SSSI: protection. Spectator walkways routed to avoid protected areas.
- Reusable catering cups. There will be no plastic cups onsite, we will only be using reusable cups at all public bars. These will be collected and reused over the week of the tournament.
- All food waste will be separated within all Hospitality kitchens.
- Food donations to East Lothian Food Bank
- Drive the Green initiative will be on the 5th or 13th hole – (wind direction pending) and for each professional who drives the green, we will plant 100 trees in association with One Tree Planted at Loch Oscaig Woodland in the Northwest Highlands
- 75 electric Genesis vehicles provided in the Courtesy Car fleet.
- Plus, the event raises over £200,000 for local charities.
#GreenHour
At this year’s Genesis Scottish Open we will be hosting a compact stakeholder event bringing together key strategic partners and selected suppliers/service providers to shine a light on some of the often-overlooked social value and environmental responsibility multipliers generated by temporary events.
The Green Hour will be an hour of reflection in the middle of a high-octane week to get everyone to stop, take stock of achievements so far and celebrate the work of the unsung heroes working in events.
Thank you for supporting our Green Drive initiatives.
