This year's NFL Super Bowl is long over, but I came across an interesting piece of news that I felt was worth sharing here:
A major effort is being undertaken by Super Bowl’s official concessions vendor Centerplate, in partnership with Bud Light and container manufacturer Ball Corporation, to supply 50,000 recyclable aluminum cups that will be served at Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium for the Big Game. The company claims that using reusable containers instead of the traditional one-time use containers could potentially eliminate the need for the up to half a million plastic cups that would normally be used at a traditional Super Bowl. After the game, aluminum cups will continue to be used during regular season Miami Dolphins games, the regular tenant of Hard Rock Stadium, as part of a wide-ranging initiative to phase out 99.4% of single-use plastics throughout the stadium operation by the end of 2020.
Hard Rock Stadium will be the second venue in the United States to make the wholesale move away from plastic cups and the first within professional sports. Only Folsom Field, the home to football at the University of Colorado in Boulder, adopted a similar initiative when they eliminated plastic cups during the past football season.
Wonder how this went? I've not found any type of post-game follow-up.
The University of Colorado is mentioned above. Here's a little more on their effort:
Definitely an intriguing idea. I'm sure a large number of them walk out of the stadium rather than being put in the recycle bin. And I know a number of them end up in the trash because of morons with "I don't really care" attitudes.
Grace & Peace & Love to you all -
Matt