University of Maryland Athletics

Dining Services and Athletics are longtime collaborators to ensure that sustainability is kept in mind during gameday.

Dining offers compostable materials such as plates, bowls, trays, straws, and utensils to help reduce the number of materials that are going to the landfill. Fans have the option to purchase souvenir cups that can be taken home and repurposed for other use. If you find yourself purchasing a prepackaged beverage like water or alcohol, just know that the material can be recycled.

Looking for something to eat while keeping sustainability in mind? Dining’s concessions offer a veggie garden burger during gameday, and on occasion, such as Maryland Day, beyond burgers are also sold. To top the foods that you may purchase, Dining offers bulk condiment containers such as ketchup, mustard, and relish that help reduce the quantity of packaging that goes to the landfill.

Concession staff are also supported by Dining! Staff are given compostable paper hats to wear while serving customers that can be placed in compost bins located in their concession unit in SECU and XFINITY.

TAILGATE WASTE:

As another year of Maryland Football approaches, the University of Maryland would like to remind campus visitors to do their part to help keep our campus clean! As tailgaters at the university, it is YOUR responsibility to clean up your tailgate area! Facilities Management provides free trash and recycling bags for fans to use during their tailgate and dumpsters conveniently located within all authorized tailgate lots. To discard your bags after tailgating, look around to find a dumpster location close to your tailgate spot!

Additionally there are red dumpsters available in select tailgate lots to dispose of hot coals.

To learn how to sort your waste on campus, visit recycle.umd.edu and https://sustainability.umd.edu/waste.

CONCOURSE WASTE COLLECTION:

Once you have arrived in Maryland Stadium, there are compost, recycle, and landfill waste bins. We encourage fans to properly sort their waste into the three waste bins. COMPOST: All food scraps, paper food containers, and paper napkins
RECYCLE: Plastic bottles, aluminum cans, and clean paper
LANDFILL/TRASH: Foil-lined wrappers, small plastics, and miscellaneous waste should go into the landfill bin. Miscellaneous stadium waste includes chip bags, plastic lids/straws, hand warmers, diapers, etc.

RESTROOM WASTE COLLECTION:

Paper towels are compostable! Please dispose of miscellaneous waste items outside of stadium restrooms or in an available landfill bin once inside the restroom.

TYSER TOWER WASTE COLLECTION:

If you are attending the game in one of our suites in Tyser Tower, there are compost, recycle, and landfill bins available for your waste.

POSTGAME WASTE SORT:

All waste from SECU stadium is collected and taken outside of the stadium to “Solid Waste Island” located outside of Gate E. Every bag of waste created in the stadium is then handsorted by contracted staff into recycle, compost, and landfill compactors. It’s important to properly sort your waste inside of the stadium to reduce the workload on staff and prevent highly contaminated bags from going to the landfill. The effort of postgame waste sorts is done to ensure that contaminated loads are not being sent to the recycling and composting facilities and that we are maximizing the waste diverted from landfills. The metrics from past waste sorts can be found below.

• Consultant for Athletics to ensure that the greenest option is being chosen
• Manages a Sustainability Fund that Athletics can apply to enhance their sustainability program