This year's Wimbledon Tennis Championship is the most environmentally friendly ever thanks to a green programme that recycles nearly all the event's water and waste and even muffles the crowd noise to just 65 decibels.
Over the past five years, Wimbledon organisers at the All England Tennis and Croquet Club have developed a robust green programme that aims to minimise its impact on the environment.
Even the gas used to fill the tournament's 52,000 Slazenger tennis balls is bio-friendly.
By monitoring the environmental effects of all its operations, Wimbledon organisers aim to minimise the tournament's waste and energy consumption through a series of eco-initiatives.
All the rubbish generated throughout the two-week event is passed through a material recovery facility at the ColnBrook Waste Management Park, near Heathrow.
And soon, the minority of waste that can't be recycled will be transformed into energy.
The SW19 complex uses a water recycling plant, which recycles 95 percent of all water used on the grass courts, and high-tech electronic attentuators have been installed this year to keep crowd noise pollution to a maximum of 65 decibels.
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