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[00:01.00]The Olympics in Sydney,Australia,is being called the first environmentally-friendly Games in history.
[00:10.77]Olympic organizers and environmental groups are trying to protect the environment during the summer games.
[00:20.41]Organizers say they hope these environmental efforts will be an example for other large sporting events.
[00:29.55]Seven years ago,Sydney competed with other cities to hold the Olympics.
[00:36.81]Sydney won the Games with the support of environmental organizations like Greenpeace.
[00:44.99]City officials promised to meet the Organization's environmental goals.
[00:52.09]Olympic organizers have reached many of their goals.
[00:57.29]They are saving energy by increasing the use of solar power.
[01:03.51]They built structures with materials that can be treated and used again.
[01:09.65]Half of all water used during the Games comes from rainwater.
[01:16.20]And people are using buses and modern trains instead of cars to get to the Games.
[01:23.88]Even the historic Olympic torch has become cleaner.
[01:29.08]Almost three-thousand people are involved in removing waste products twenty-four hours a day from the area of the Games.
[01:40.26]A large amount of the waste material is being reused.
[01:46.48]Paper containers for holding food are made of a cornstarch material that breaks down in the environment.
[01:55.73]This waste will be taken to a giant worm farm to be eaten by worms.
[02:02.78]Environmental activists are praising the use of energy from the sun for houses in the Olympic Village.
[02:11.48]Athletes are staying in them during the Games.
[02:15.71]Some people have criticized the city.
[02:19.37]They say the government failed to meet its promise to clean up an Olympic center at an area called Homebush Bay.
[02:29.63]The waterway was once used by manufacturing companies to dump chemical pollution.
[02:37.81]Greenpeace says it still contains five-hundred-thousand tons of dioxin chemicals.
[02:46.95]Environmentalists are also concerned about the use of gases in the cooling systems at the Olympic centers.
[02:57.11]They say these so-called greenhouse gases damage ozone in the atmosphere which can increase temperatures on Earth.
[03:09.31]Organizers say most of Olympic environmental failures resulted from the lack of technology.
[03:18.46]But they say they have made progress.They hope to repeat their environmental efforts at future Olympic Games.
