SENTOSA GOLF CLUB MAGAZINE
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adidas Golf Collaborates with SGC on
CLIMATE ACTION Sentosa Golf Club and adidas Golf will be working closely together to further educate and influence those in the game and help put an end to plastic waste. The staff at Sentosa Golf Club will have their uniforms sponsored by adidas Golf, but done so using recycled materials, and there will be brand videos to showcase the Club’s sustainability efforts as well as event collaborations, seminars and unique and innovative ideas to press home the message of carbon neutrality. And much more is promised in the second half of 2021 with ideas that will be noticed by both Members and visitors alike for the greater good of the game and our planet.
Adidas Group have been consistently listed in the Top 10 of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index since 2000
The association is a natural one; both are leaders in the golf industry through their sustainability efforts with Sentosa becoming the first golf club in the world to join the UN Sports for Climate Action Initiative, having eliminated plastic use and utilised energysaving options in the SGC office, golf operations, greenkeeping and maintenance. For their part, the Adidas Group have been consistently listed in
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the Top 10 of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index since 2000 and, for the past six years, they have had a long-term commitment with Parley for the Oceans by supporting their Parley schools and they have ingeniously developed a prototype shoe from Ocean plastic and illegal gillnets discarded by poachers. In 2019, adidas Golf, together with Parley and Runtastic, initiated their ‘Run For The Oceans’ campaign which saw 2.2 million runners worldwide download the app in just nine days and helped raise US$1.5m which was donated by adidas Golf. Another innovation saw a synthetic football field built using 20 tons of recycled plastic taken from beaches and coastal communities. At last year’s Players Championship the first Primeblue golf shoe, made using ocean
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plastic, was launched and this year we will see the release of both Primeblue golf shoes (ocean plastic) and the Primegreen Go-To polos using only recycled materials. This Recycled Loop is the start of a 3 Loop Strategy with the Circular Loop, recycling products over and over again, and then the Bionic Loop which is where products can not only be used but also returned to nature and therefore no plastic waste. The company removed all plastic use from their retail stores in 2016 and even key suppliers can now process recycled materials on a large scale and, by 2024, adidas Golf plan to have completely removed all virgin polyester from its production, reduced its greenhouse emissions by 30 per cent based on 2017 levels and be fully carbon neutral by 2050.
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