11/10/2025
What a wonderful move
🚨 BREAKING: Paris bans plastic bottles from running event!
On Monday, Paris City Hall confirmed a major change for all races in the capital: single-use plastic is officially banned.
That includes the Paris 20 km in mid-October and the Paris Marathon. Runners, remember to bring your reusable water bottles.
Pierre Rabadan, Paris’s deputy mayor for sports, explained that organizers can no longer hand out plastic bottles. Instead, reusable bottles and cups will take their place, with the city lending up to 100,000 cups to events.
Paris hosts 13 races between now and December, and with over a million bottles typically used each year in longer races, this move marks a serious push for sustainability. Rabadan emphasized that even he used to toss bottles after just a few sips, so change is long overdue.
The zero single-use plastic goal started in 2019, inspired by cities like Munich, Amsterdam, San Francisco, and London, with the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2024 aiming to be the greenest ever. While elite athletes at the Olympics were still allowed bottles for safety reasons, the new rules will impact everyone else.
Paris is taking its Olympic legacy seriously, making green practices part of everyday running. After all, the era of plastic bottles at races is coming to an end.
