Water stations at marathons

It use to be plastic cups filled with water, you ran past, grabbed a cup, took a gulp or two and then threw it like you do with the plastic bottles. Afterwards a grand clean up takes places collecting all the bottles/cups My husband is a runner and I have helped in many races.

I don’t know what happened prior to plastic bottles, although running marathons is a relatively new sport in the UK.

Why not use these instead of plastic bottles? A much smaller environmental impact! www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/04/13/london-marathon-runners-given-edible-water-bottles-organisers/