The environmental commitment of the USKids Venice Open continues with the 2024 edition.
Actions carried out in the past and planned for the 2024 edition
- Sustainability questionnaires
- Experimentation with robotic mowers
- Shuttle services for transfer from the hotels to the three golf courses
- Operation Pollinator project with Millebuche honey (Award GEA 2022)
- Creation of an organic garden for the club’s restaurant
- Promotion of local gastronomic products (ham, cheese)
- 3R Project – Recycle, Reduce, Reuse
- Plastic-free initiatives (reusable water bottles, water dispensers on the course, plastic cap collection)
- Agreement with the OneOcean Foundation to collect 1 kg of plastic for every birdie
- Fundraising for non-profit organizations
New actions for 2024
- Distribution of SproutWorld wooden score pencils with a seed to plant flowers, herbs, fruits, or vegetables (motto for USKids Venice Open: “growing together”)
- Agreement with the National Plastic Collection Consortium for the installation of plastic bottle compactors with a rewarding system
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Agreement with Insolito Posto, for an accessible and ‘sensitive’ holiday experience. A place free from physical, sensory and cultural barriers, open to all, where meeting people is the real focus.
- Installation of 5 + 3 robots at Montecchia and Frassanelle
- Cell collection
- Start of cork stopper collection
- Fundraising for new non-profit organizations (‘Isola che C’è” – partner of the pediatric hospital in Padua, “AVO” Voluntary Hospital Association of Padua, Protezione civile – Fire Protection of the Euganean Hills Regional Park
