As part of its eco-responsibility initiative, the Green Charter, ITRA (the International Trail Running Association) surveyed its members to gather their opinions on sustainability in trail running.
ITRA surveyed 5,000 trail runners across 130 countries and found:
- 77% of runners would be more likely to participate in a trail running event if it had a strong focus on sustainability
- 53% of runners would be willing to pay more for an event if the money was going towards sustainability initiatives
- 66% of runners think sustainability in trail running is extremely important
- 45% of runners feel that trail running is not doing enough to promote and uphold principles of environmental and social sustainability
- 35% of runners think waste created during event is the biggest impact
- 22% of runners feel that transport is the biggest impact
