City gets aid to boost recycling at venues 10.25 .10

Tom Spalding
The Indianapolis Star

A move is on to increase recycling participation within the city’s sports stadiums, including Conseco Fieldhouse and Lucas Oil Stadium, with the hope that fans can help score a big victory for the environment.

The city of Indianapolis says it has been awarded $42,600 in grant funding by the Environmental Protection Agency and will work team with its office of sustainability and others to identify aluminum cans, steel food containers, glass bottles, plastic cups, paper and cardboard that get tossed as waste at the venues.

Both facilities have established recycling programs with bins at each venue. Statistics on how much is recycling wasn't contained in a news release, but at Lucas Oil Stadium, officials recycled over 1,200 pounds of glass, over 850 pounds of aluminum and over 100 pounds of plastic after each Indianapolis Colts home game.

The money would be used to: Identify recyclables in the current waste stream; develop and implement a holistic recycling education campaign; increase awareness of recycling options and increase recycling tonnage; and improve the facilities’ environmental impact.
http://www.indystar.com/article/20101022/BUSINESS/310220001/EPA-to-help-Indy-boost-sports-arena-recycling
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