USC won Best Fan Engagement in the Pac-12 Zero Waste Challenge for the 2022 football season

Football | 03 May 2023

ANGELS–USCs has been named the winner of the Best Fan Engagement subcategory for the 2022 Pac-12 Zero Waste Challenge football season, a league-wide competition. This challenge started in 2016 to divert waste from home ball games from landfills to recycling or composting.

This is USC’s seventh overall or class win in football and men’s basketball.

During the 2022 football season, USC achieved a 91.3% recycling rate in a Zero Waste game against Arizona State, including over three tons of recycling and over five tons of compost.

USC President Dr. Carol L. Folt joined the campaign and created a video message highlighting the Zero Waste Game and urging everyone in the Trojan community to do their part to achieve the goal of zero waste.

The campaign included campus signage, website content and social media posts, including “Waste Ed Wednesday,” which provided waste disposal instructions for game attendees and campus tailgaters. A central game day page was also created, containing green tips and sustainability resources, as well as expectations for the Zero Waste Games.

Sustainability highlights were presented in all concession stands and premium series digital screens, and Zero Waste content and Single-use Plastic Elimination information were presented on the video board.

Colorado won the overall Zero Waste Challenge award for the 2022 season, with other subcategory honors going to Utah (Rising Star) and Arizona State (Innovation).

This is Colorado’s third football Zero Waste Challenge win overall (also winning in 2018 and 2019), tying USC’s record for most total wins in a football season (2016, 2017 and 2021).

All four schools will be recognized for their wins at a special awards ceremony at the 2023 Pac-12 Sustainability Conference hosted by Stanford on the 21st-22nd. June. More information about the conference and registration can be found atPac-12.com/sustainability.

More information on the Pac-12 Zero Waste Challenge is available atPac-12.com/teamgreen.