Patriot Place has been awarded the 2017 MassRecycle Recycler of the Year Award – Business Category. The Recycler of the Year Award is given to a business that has developed and operates an outstanding recycling and waste reduction program that increases recycling or reduces waste generated by their business. The award comes as a result […]
Sustainability
Red Sox and Fans Go Green for Earth Day
Waste Management, in partnership with the Boston Red Sox and Aramark, celebrated Earth Day 2017 a bit early with a post-game waste-sort event at Fenway Park in Boston on Monday afternoon. The event followed the Red Sox’s traditional Patriots Day – Marathon Monday morning game vs. the Tampa Bay Rays. Volunteers joined employees of the […]
Turning Boston’s Food Waste into Clean, Green Energy
About one-third of all food produced globally – more than 1.8 billion tons – is lost or wasted along the food value chain. Just in the United States, $218 billion a year is spent growing, processing, transporting and disposing of food that is never eaten. Lost opportunities reclaimed More than just the money spent producing […]
Lessons from the Most Sustainable Show on Earth
The quiet Arizona desert explodes for a week each year with the cheers of over half a million golf fans. For the seventh year, Waste Management has turned the biggest event in golf into the largest verified zero-waste event in the world. The Waste Management Phoenix Open is the biggest golf event ever with almost […]
Red Sox Hit Home Run with Sustainability
The Boston Red Sox have made tremendous progress in greening their game. With the help of Waste Management, they introduced several sustainability improvements at Fenway Park and moved to a single-stream recycling solution. Fans will recognize the blue recycling bins throughout the park. In 2012 almost 400 tons of materials were diverted and recycled. Waste […]