Zero Waste at Scott Stadium
The Waste Quantification team set out to provide a rough empirical analysis of the waste flow leaving Scott Stadium on a typical game day. With this information, future Zero-Waste Football initiative teams will be able to make further analyses or create a detailed argument for the benefits and feasibility of shifting the stadium towards zero waste. We began by speaking with experts in the fields of recycling and composting. Sonny Beale at UVA Recycling and Craig Coker, a consultant for various Virginia composting companies, provided us with valuable help on what data would be useful to acquire for our analysis as well as how to acquire it.
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Zero Waste at Scott Stadium

WasteQuantification (click PDF)

Fall 2011

Team members: Jackson Bewley, Gabriella Falcon, Scott Glassman

The Waste Quantification team set out to provide a rough empirical analysis of the waste flow leaving Scott Stadium on a typical game day. With this information, future Zero-Waste Football initiative teams will be able to make further analyses or create a detailed argument for the benefits and feasibility of shifting the stadium towards zero waste. We began by speaking with experts in the fields of recycling and composting. Sonny Beale at UVA Recycling and Craig Coker, a consultant for various Virginia composting companies, provided us with valuable help on what data would be useful to acquire for our analysis as well as how to acquire it. We ultimately planned on performing a waste audit at the UVA-Duke game, which we believed would be a good representation of an average attendance football game. We contacted Jason Bauman in the UVA Athletics Facilities Department, who along with Eric Dadmun, of the same department, helped us work out the logistics. Eric gave us a tour of the stadium before the game and arranged to meet with us to show us where we could sample trash from on game day and to let us in to the locker room to sample there. Jess Wenger and John Clark at UVA recycling also arranged trash toters for us at the stadium where we could store the trash. On game day we followed a plan of sampling that would pull samples from an accurate cross section of the stadium. We executed this plan, storing trash in the toters during the game and overnight. The next day UVA Recycling moved the toters for us to the UVA Recycling facilities. There we analyzed the samples’ contents visually and empirically by mass, and by volume.

zero waste at scott stadium