If you've attended an Ohio State game, you know the mass of people that can fill the Horseshoe. Now think about all the trash left behind.
Ohio State is doing its best to keep most of it out of landfills, and it appears they're crushing it. From BTN.com:
What do you call 5,657 tons of garbage?
At The Ohio State University, they call it a good start. That’s how much trash the institution has disposed of through its zero-waste program at Ohio Stadium.
“Zero-waste” is defined as having diverted 90 percent of all discarded material from landfills. The university does this by working with vendors to make sure all food packaging and utensils are recyclable, said Jay Kasey, senior vice president of administration and planning at OSU.
Additionally, OSU hires area high school students to stand throughout the stadium on game days and help fans separate their waste according to whether it can be composted or recycled. After the games are over and all the spectators are gone, those same high schoolers pick up trash left in the stands and sort it accordingly. Then the waste is either trucked out to a compostable materials farm or sent to various locations for recycling, Kasey said.
Now that's pretty sweet.
