The USKids Venice Open renews its environmental commitment in the 2025 edition.
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Past initiatives and those scheduled for the 2025 edition:
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- Sustainability questionnaires
- Shuttle services for transfer from the hotels to the three golf courses
- Operation Pollinator project with Millebuche honey (Award GEA 2022)
- Cultivation of fresh produce in our own organic garden for use in the restaurant.
- Creation of healthy, sustainable menus with calorie counts and CO₂ emissions listed for each dish.
- Promotion of local gastronomic products (ham, cheese, wine)
- 3R Project – Recycle, Reduce, Reuse
- Plastic-free initiatives (reusable water bottles, water dispensers on the course, plastic cap collection)
- Agreement with the National Plastic Collection Consortium for the installation of plastic bottle compactors with a rewarding system
- Fundraising for non-profit organizations
- Agreement with “Insolito Posto”, an hospitality facility or 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.
- Cell collection
- Cork stopper collection
- Fundraising for non-profit organizations (“Isola che C’è” – Association helping children with life-limiting conditions and their families and “Protezione civile” – Fire Protection of the Euganean Hills Regional Park)
- Repurposed a large part of the installations from previous editions.
New actions:
- Fundraising in support of a organization dedicated to training guide dogs for the blind.
- Collaboration with artist Andrea Dalla Costa, who donated one of his paintings, which was used to organize an auction to raise funds for charity.
- Inclusion of two disabled workers in the golf course maintenance team.
- Awarding of prizes to participants in the sustainability questionnaires
- On the eve of the Venice Open, a rare albino mallard was spotted on the Montecchia Golf course and has been adopted as the official mascot of the event.
- Starting this year, over 80% of sponsors, partners and suppliers are committed to environmental sustainability, a criterion used in their selection.
