he start of the Paris Olympics is still a couple of weeks away, but already organizers are struggling to combat a series of problems related to the swelter summer, an over-ambitious green-energy agenda – and poop.
When Paris won the right in 2017 to host the Summer Olympics, there were boasts of making them “the greenest in Olympic history,” including solar panels on buildings, low-carbon transport, a reliance of locally-sourced food, the widespread use of temporary structures, and a major cleanup effort in the Seine, the scenic river that winds through the city.
