Keep
Tignes Tidy
Tignes
Organic accessories
Hip, practical and recyclable, Tignes has created its very own re-usable shopping bag. For shopping, transporting your ski or swimming things, the eco attitude is evident throughout the resort.
It is this season’s “must have” accessory. This is the latest item to cause a stir on the pistes and chairlifts. If you still smoke, you’ve got to have one: the new pocket ashtray. in Tignes’
Revegetation
Each summer, the resort encourages the revegetation of natural zones that have been eroded or damaged by people, the weight of the snow or rain.
Mountain paths are also diverted so that the grass can grow back naturally.
Recycling
Due to 53% of its foreign clientele having been aware of environmental issues for a long time.
Tignes has been recycling its waste for 9 years. 240 recycling bins are available within the resort. The sorting instructions are also printed in English.
Traffic
Impact Reduction
Tignes works closely with the automobile manufacturer Subaru which provides the resort with cars that run on LPG fuel.
The vehicles used to maintain the pistes are also well looked after: the snowploughs and specialist vehicles in use on the Grande Motte glacier run on biodiesel.
A sizable chunk of the resort's roads have been placed underground, where there are also 2,600 underground car parking places as the resort takes huge steps to both improve the environment and to offer increased quality to the ski holiday experience.
Free shuttle busses operate 24 hours a day in a further bid to decrease car usage once in resort.
The resort claims that it has achieved a major shift in balance returning Tignes to pedestrians, skiers and nature. The place des Drapeaux, once a congested junction, is now once again a field of snow.
Tignes
Rides High
For several years now, the “Société des Téléphériques de la Grande Motte or STGM” (The Grande Motte Cable Car Company) has invested between 5 and 7 million Euros each summer in the refurbishment of its ski lifts.
Each year, detachable chairlifts replace old lifts. One new chairlift often replaces two in the same location resulting in a faster flow of skiers and less noise and visual pollution. 100 pylons have been removed during the last 10 years.
The Tufs chairlift which provides access to the heart of the resort on the Tovière mountain was the latest replaced for winter 2008-9 by a detachable six-man chairlift, with an accelerated flow of 2,400 people per hour, and only 15 pylons instead of 22!
Information gathered by the Ski Club of Great Britain / Green Resort Guide
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