SAN FRANCISCO - UCLA women's basketball has been named the Rising Star for the 2022-23 Pac-12 Zero Waste Challenge.
The Bruins held their Zero Waste game on Feb. 10, 2023 at home against Oregon State, achieving a 55% diversion rate for waste at Pauley Pavilion presented by Wescom. UCLA collected over 300 points of recycling and compost at the game.
The Bruin Environmental Leadership Team (BELT) led the efforts for the game; BELT is a student-athlete organization on UCLA's campus. Eighteen student-athletes aided in the sorting and waste audit, and BELT organized campus and local groups to participate in a Sustainability Fair.
UCLA partnered with Athens, a campus waste hauler, to place special bins outside of Pauley Paviolion for in-game and postgame waste and recycling sorting. Athens
UCLA will be honored at the 2023 Pac-12 Sustainability Conference, which is set to take place on June 21-22 at Stanford University, alongside California, Colorado and Washington. Registration information is available here.
About the Pac-12 Zero Waste Challenge
A core pillar of Pac-12 Team Green, the Pac-12 Zero Waste Challenge is held annually during both football and basketball seasons. Each university selects one home football and one home basketball game to compete and provide a platform for engaging on best practices in waste diversion. As part of the competition, each competing university submitted a scorecard detailing the efforts around its Zero Waste game. Criteria is weighted as such: 25 percent participation and partnerships, 25 percent innovation credit and 50 percent stadium diversion rate.
More information on the Pac-12 Zero Waste Challenge is available at Pac-12.com/green.
The Bruins held their Zero Waste game on Feb. 10, 2023 at home against Oregon State, achieving a 55% diversion rate for waste at Pauley Pavilion presented by Wescom. UCLA collected over 300 points of recycling and compost at the game.
The Bruin Environmental Leadership Team (BELT) led the efforts for the game; BELT is a student-athlete organization on UCLA's campus. Eighteen student-athletes aided in the sorting and waste audit, and BELT organized campus and local groups to participate in a Sustainability Fair.
UCLA partnered with Athens, a campus waste hauler, to place special bins outside of Pauley Paviolion for in-game and postgame waste and recycling sorting. Athens
UCLA will be honored at the 2023 Pac-12 Sustainability Conference, which is set to take place on June 21-22 at Stanford University, alongside California, Colorado and Washington. Registration information is available here.
About the Pac-12 Zero Waste Challenge
A core pillar of Pac-12 Team Green, the Pac-12 Zero Waste Challenge is held annually during both football and basketball seasons. Each university selects one home football and one home basketball game to compete and provide a platform for engaging on best practices in waste diversion. As part of the competition, each competing university submitted a scorecard detailing the efforts around its Zero Waste game. Criteria is weighted as such: 25 percent participation and partnerships, 25 percent innovation credit and 50 percent stadium diversion rate.
More information on the Pac-12 Zero Waste Challenge is available at Pac-12.com/green.