Sport Industry Attempts To Go Green

For the most part it is clear that our environment is going through some problems, especially with the burning of vast amounts of fossil fuels and the greenhouse gases which leak into our atmosphere. Recently stadiums and arenas across the country have realized that they themselves often times burn some much electricity and create a large amount of waste put into landfills. When a baseball stadium is lit up even for just six hours they use 6,420 kilowatt hours of electricity. What is very surprising is that is how much kilowatt hours it takes to power the average household in the United States for a year. Sport complexes do not have all the answers but they are making an attempt to start somewhere. They are using more bio friendly ink for their printers and are using more bio friendly chemicals to manicure their fields. But still there are many problems to be fixed, such as how many cars drive to just a single game. Of course these problems are far from being solved but at least stadiums and professional leagues are stepping up to attempt to fix problems they have put on our earth.

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