First GP of the new Century!

The 2000 Qantas Formula One Grand Prix roared off to a fantastic start for Cleanevent and its hard working crew. Work actually started on the site for Cleanevent on January 4 and gradually built up from there to over 200 people working over the actual weekend. The accommodation base down on-site catered for many Cleanevent supervisor employees, making sure they all have breakfast, lunch and dinner, and more importantly were out of bed and sprucing the slick race track and all its facilities well before the sun started to rise.

Making sure that all the people on the ground had the paperwork they needed, changing rosters and had the right shifts, received their uniforms at the correct time, laundered them, ran the Help Desk, and provided radio response calls, were a tight knit team of administration people.

A new EMAC (Event Management And Control) system was implemented by Kinhill Engineering for the first time this year. Every item on the circuit was provided with a code that depicted its area location and the type of product it was (ie: ladies or mens toilet block). Feedback from Cleanevent employees was that the system was fantastic and provided instant location reporting so much time was saved in response time.

After all the corporate guests and the public patrons had absorbed each high action day on the track and were on their way to pubs, restaurants or just home for a sleep, the Cleanevent crews launched into action. The grandstands were litter picked and cleaned, the media centres brought back to A1 presentation, and the corporate facilities all cleaned, polished and ready for the caterers to re-set. All this starts to happen from 6pm onwards each night. You can see here some of the hard working crew doing the thing they do best.

The GP this year finally closed the loop on the recycling process thanks to the hard work of Cleanevent and Visy, which makes the Formula One event one of the most environment friendly events on this planet. Last years food waste was bought back as compost for the parklands for this year’s event. The last product to close up the “cradle to grave” closed loop recycling process was the drinking cups, which for the first time this year were totally recyclable PET cups.

We would never expect anything less than a fantastic job with amazing commitment from all the employees, and yet again they delivered to an even higher level. Well done all of you, the Melbourne circuit and its facilities were yet again presented to the world in a pristine condition each moment of every day. Hope you enjoyed those beers afterwards!

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