By educating players, fans, and staff about your team’s recycling program, you can increase participation, thereby increasing environmental benefits and saving money. Stadium operations directors, clubhouse managers, and food & beverage concessionaires are particularly important people to have on board with these efforts. Make sure there are clearly-labeled recycling bins in public stadium areas, parking lots, and other tailgate areas (ideally a clearly differentiated recycling can located next to each trash container). Find opportunities to present information about your recycling program during games by using messages on the scoreboard and on billboards and signs in stadiums, announcements over the P.A. in the stadium, and radio and television announcements during game broadcasts. Also consider featuring information about your recycling program in print ads, event flyers, on stadium websites, or in press conferences.

Your team’s initiatives will have a broad effect on a diverse range of people, promoting more behavior changes in thousands of fans. By educating fans, players, and employees about your organization’s environmental initiatives, your team can multiply the positive effects of your own actions to enhance environmental performance. By setting up recycling stations within the stadium and informing fans about the value of recycling, for example, you make it more likely that they will recycling in their homes.

Philadelphia Eagles “Go Green”
EPA – Environmental Education
EPA – Envirofacts Warehouse
NRDC – Shopper’s Guide to Home Tissue Products
Recycling Environmental Benefits Calculator
EPA's Waste Reduction Model (WARM) Calculator
Minnesota Guide to Source Reduction
WasteWise – How to Start or Expand a Recycling Program