Here's how Stadium recycling works...

Waste Management provides blue curb carts to the stadium and distributes them near the vending areas for cardboard recycling. When these cardboard carts are full, the Recycling Staff empty them in to one of several cardboard dumpsters around the stadium. Waste Management staff works continuously throughout the game to make sure as much cardboard as possible is recycled. The cardboard really piles up, but vendors help out by breaking down their cardboard boxes and placing them in the recycling carts. Their cooperation makes it work! The proof of it is that we have collected 105.87 tons of cardboard since the program started!

Starting in the 1999 season, Waste Management Services started collecting mixed containers for recycling. Plastic bottles, glass bottles, and aluminum cans are collected in bright blue Rubbermaid bins located around the Stadium. Throughout the game we encourage fans to recycle all their beverage containers. Since the 1999 season, we have made much progress starting from recycling 4.14 tons in the first season to 22.46 tons in the 2005 season. In total fans have recycled 99.7 tons of mixed containers!

The recyclers usually begin their day a few hours before game time and work to near the end of the game. A small crew also comes in on Sunday mornings after the games and finishes the clean up, collecting and recycling as much of the remaining cardboard and containers as possible.

In the fall of '97, we were notified that the plastic drink cups sold at the stadium could be recycled through our current processor. Unfortunately, around the 1999 or 2000 football seasons we had to discontinue recycling these plastic drink cups because there was no longer are market for these recycled materials.