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November 12, 2009

Baltimore Marathon leaves smaller footprint

The Baltimore Running Festival people, like many other major race organizers, decided this was the year to really make an effort on the environmental front. And they just reported their final numbers from the race that drew 20,000 runners out for the day.

Here's the breakdown:

*75 percent of waste either recycled or composted;

*16,640 pounds of material recycled;

*2,200 pound of material composted;

*150 pounds of heatsheets recycled;

*162 pairs of shoes recycled through Soles 4 Souls;

*48.3 tons of carbon offset;

*3 hybrid and 1 electric vehicles used;

*210 gallons of biodiesel used;

*100 trees planted.

Runners also received new Under Armour shirts made from recycled materials.

So, anyone have any feedback? Did they do a good job? Anything more they could have done?

Posted by Meredith Cohn at 7:00 AM | | Comments (0)
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Tim WheelerTim Wheeler reports on the environment and Chesapeake Bay. A native of West Virginia, he has focused mainly on Maryland's environment since moving here in 1983. Along the way, he's crewed aboard a skipjack in the bay, canoed under city streets up the Jones Fall from the Inner Harbor, and gone deep underground in a western Maryland coal mine. He loves seafood, rambles in the country and good stories. He hopes to share some here.

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