Earth Day

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Arizona Diamondbacks

The Arizona Diamondbacks will celebrate Earth Day on April 23 by highlighting several of their sustainability programs during a special pregame ceremony. Most notably, the team will recognize their partnership with Bold Reuse, PepsiCo and Levy, and their launch of the Reusable Cup Program at Chase Field, the first of its kind across MLB ballparks and among Arizona sports venues. Implemented last July in the Bar-S All-You-Can-Eat Seats, the program saw more than 16,000 cups reused during the second half of these season. In 2025, the D-backs announced the program will expand to a second location, the Estrella Jalisco Cantina, to increase the scale of the program’s impact. The team will also celebrate its Break a Bat, Plant a Tree program with Budweiser, and the APS Solar Pavilion, which covers Chase Field’s Plaza area, generating 75 kilowatts of solar power to provide fans with extra shade during the summer months. During the game, the D-back will host Grow to Give, a local non-profit whose mission is to combat hunger and promote food security through agricultural and plant-based nutritional development. The organization will be giving out free biodegradable kits, including vegetable, fruit and flower seeds, to fans at the game. Additional in-game elements include a “Will It Recycle” trivia feature, Kids Club Earth Day activity in the Sandlot, and a Recycle Frenzy in the stands.

Atlanta Braves

In celebration of Earth Day and in partnership with Molson Coors, Hands On Atlanta and Decatur Legacy Park, the Atlanta Braves visited one of Decatur’s historic green spaces Tuesday, April 15, to enhance their historic green space as part of their Pitch In for the Planet presented by Coors Light initiative. Braves front office and Molson Coors volunteers worked together to clear and weed the space, plant local pollinators, beautify fences and plant shrubs at Trellis Horticulture Therapy’s ability garden. In addition, volunteers assisted master gardeners at the Moore Chapel Garden, mulched and watered green spaces, and more. Through this initiative, the Braves and Molson Coors emphasized their shared commitment to being good stewards of the planet and supporting green spaces across our communities. The Braves also installed eight garden towers on-site at Truist Park, where a variety of plants will be grown and harvested to use for select ballpark food items throughout the season. Excess vegetables from this initiative will be included in the Braves food donation program. The Braves will celebrate Earth Day in-park with a special pregame segment April 22 when they play against the St. Louis Cardinals.

Baltimore Orioles

As part of the Baltimore Orioles Orange and Black Gives Back volunteer program, Orioles employees will participate in an Earth Day volunteer project with Parity Homes in the Harlem Park neighborhood of West Baltimore, serving the community of our recently announced Adopt-A-School program at Harlem Park Elementary Middle School. Volunteers will help with building benches, laying pavers, installing plants, picking up debris in the neighborhood and sorting books, among other tasks. Parity Homes is an equitable development company proudly headquartered in West Baltimore that acquires and rehabilitates abandoned properties by the block to create affordable home ownership opportunities.

Chicago Cubs

On Earth Day, Tuesday, April 22, the Chicago Cubs will take on the Los Angeles Dodgers at Wrigley Field and will hand out reusable Earth Day tote bags presented by Hefty to the first 10,000 fans to enter the ballpark. The Cubs will also partner with the American Conservation Coalition and Hefty to activate a “Green Team” throughout the ballpark to divert additional mixed recycling from landfills. This past weekend, the Cubs hosted a Neighborhood Grounds Crew clean-up event with Hefty where more than 100 Hefty employees and community volunteers joined forces to clean up a local park.

Chicago White Sox

The White Sox continue a longstanding commitment to sustainability with the full-scale expansion of the organization’s composting program at Rate Field. Partnering with WM, the park operations team builds on back-to-back seasons diverting more than 5 tons of food waste from landfills.

New in 2025, fan-facing compost bins are now available throughout the ballpark concourses, while dedicated food prep receptacles support seamless back-of-house participation. Sustainable F&B efforts further reduce the ballpark’s environmental footprint. More than 220,000 reusable aluminum cups have been deployed across concessions, and plant-based containers, cups and plates are used throughout Rate Field. In premium spaces, Levy has transitioned suites to plant-based flatware, while Delaware North bars feature drink coasters embedded with wildflower seeds. Signature cocktails like the Bees Harvest Margarita support The Bee Cause Project, promoting pollinator education and protection. Year-over-year improvements underscore the organization’s broader conservation strategy.

Lighting retrofits and RCx/MBCx monitoring upgrades have reduced electrical usage by 5.5 million kWh (20 percent) over the past year. Water usage also has dropped by 18.5 percent, and the team diverted 196 tons of cardboard, paper, plastics and aluminum from landfills in 2024, alongside 125 tons of field waste.

Beyond the ballpark, the White Sox will partner with the Alliance for the Great Lakes for an Earth Day beach cleanup on April 22, inviting front office staff to collect litter and contribute data to a regional pollution study. The same week, the White Sox Volunteer Corps will join Park Lawn Residential Centers, an agency supporting adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, for a day of service focused on garden prep and other landscaping efforts.

Cincinnati Reds

The Reds are continuing their recycling program in 2023, which includes on-site cardboard baling, comingled recycling and e-waste. The Reds have worked with the ballpark’s energy supplier to provide Great American Ball Park with 25% renewable energy, and all ballpark lighting is now LED, including field lights. Concessionaire Delaware North is partnering with the “Last Mile Food Rescue” organization to deliver unused ballpark food to local nonprofit agencies. Delaware North team members have been collecting bottle caps for Earth Connection’s “Bottle Caps to Benches” project.

Cleveland Guardians

Davey Tree and the Cleveland Guardians are excited to build on their existing Swing for the Trees partnership by celebrating Earth Week and Arbor Day at Progressive Field, April 24-26. Both the Guardians and Davey Tree remain committed supporting Earth-friendly practices and initiatives.

Colorado Rockies

The Colorado Rockies will kick off Earth Week on April 18. With a special presenting partner, Colorado Tourism, through their “Do Colorado Right Campaign”, which encourages residents and visitors to keep our beautiful state beautiful, the two organizations will partner to promote sustainability all week long through various activations at the Ballpark, such as video board messages and fun ‘Did You Know’ green facts read from the players. These videos will stay in a pregame reel with players answering questions on why sustainability is important to them and highlight ways fans can help with sustainability.

Additionally, the Rockies will promote sustainability and Earth Week activations with a special scoreboard loop. The Rockies scoreboard will feature the Rockies’ sustainability logo for games during Earth Week. The exterior lights will go green on Earth Day, April 22. Three finalists selected on April 22 from a poster contest for local sixth-grade science classes on storm water education will be voted on via rockies.com and at Coors Field. The winner will be awarded on field at the April 26 game and treated to a tour and pizza party. The official finalists will be announced via social media, in-game and on the website.

Also, during the April 18-20 series, AFM & Rockies staff, the “Green Team,” wearing Colorado Rockies sustainability vests, will sort recyclables in the stands between each inning. Rockies mascot Dinger will make an appearance in a special sustainability team vest and participate in sorting recyclables. In addition, the Rockies will feature WM along with other Rockies sustainability highlights in-game.

On April 19, the Rockies will host Schafer Consulting and the Rockies’ official sustainability partners, WM, with tables on the main concourse during the game. The tables will feature the aforementioned posters to vote on, a fun recycling game, and promote the importance of sustainability and what fans can do to help.

The Rockies will host a special PLAY BALL event offsite in April where they will focus on educating the youth participants on sustainability, baseball and softball. The Rockies are also participating in a textile recycling program on Earth Day. Promotion of activations and Earth Week will be pushed to the Ballpark app, which will be branded green for Earth Week, during the games, April 24-26.

On April 30, the Rockies’ STEM day, Steve Spangler will make a special tie-in to sustainability, educating the large audience of youth on the importance of such. Earth Week will conclude in early May with social media posts recapping the highlights of Earth Week, further promoting sustainability.

Houston Astros

We have converted lighting on the suite level (including suites), player parking garage, 80% of the ballpark restrooms and our on-field light towers to LED lighting. We're starting dual stream bowl pick as well as for fans along with continuing our electronic, pallet and cardboard recycling. Additionally, we have donated more than 18 tons of leftover food from events to Second Servings, providing more than 30,500 meals to individuals and families in the Houston area. We have switched our disposable service ware to eco-friendly material for food service. We converted all Urinal restroom fixtures on the suite level to waterless units to save water consumption. The central refrigeration system has been remodeled to lower energy consumption through optimized compressor operations, mechanical subcooling and improved load management, while also minimizing maintenance needs by reducing the number of components required.

  • Recycled 5,533 pounds of electronics waste, including televisions, computers, rackmounts, etc.
  • Baled and recycled 76 tons of cardboard from back of house operations.
  • Recycled more than 12,000 pounds of steel scrap metal from off-season renovation projects.
  • Donated 84 yards of grass and dirt from Daikin Park’s resodding project to local Little League fields and farms.
  • Upgraded field grow lights to advanced LED technology to optimize turf growth while minimizing energy consumption. The system precisely controls light and heat based on real-time data, reducing energy use and ensuring high-quality grass maintenance with maximum efficiency.
  • Introduced the Turf Protection Cleaner which reduces water usage when cleaning turf protection flooring as well as minimizes labor costs and cleaning time.
  • Donated excess promotional items to local school districts, providing students and educators with team memorabilia in addition to reducing waste.

Los Angeles Angels

The Angels Baseball Foundation, in partnership with OC Waste & Recycling, is hosting an upcycle challenge for students in Orange County as part of the 2025 Angels Adopt-A-School program. Students are encouraged to create their own inventive works that best showcases ways that traditional trash or recycled materials can be reused and re-purposed to create something beautiful and useful. Prizes will be awarded to top entries.

Since 2017, the Angels have diverted more than 175 tons of waste materials (cardboard, plastic and aluminum) away from landfills. Angel Stadium has continued its commitment to expand its food scrap and waste diversion program to include more kitchen locations on-site to increase the amount of food waste diverted from landfills. In addition, the Angels, through the City of Anaheim, have been converting food waste into renewable energy through anaerobic digestion.

Angel Stadium will continue a multi-year plan to convert stadium lighting fixtures and bulbs to LED efficient lighting, which has already reduced the energy consumption of Angel Stadium by 60% since 2017. The Coca-Cola Green Team at Angel Stadium will begin its 2025 program on Earth Day. The team is dedicated to promote sustainability and recycling practices at Angel Stadium, and will continue to encourage fans to take those practices into their daily lives.

Milwaukee Brewers

On Saturday, April 26, the Brewers Beyond the Diamond employee volunteer program is teaming up with Milwaukee Riverkeepers and WM employees to clean up a stretch of the Menomonee River along the Hank Aaron State Trail, adjacent to American Family Field.

New York Yankees

The New York Yankees organization recognizes our responsibility to protect and promote the well-being of our community. Accordingly, the Yankees remain committed to inspiring our partners, players, fans and employees to create a sustainable environmental legacy. In pursuit of these goals, the Yankees seek to measure and minimize identifiable environmental impacts related to our operations, including greenhouse gas emissions, energy use, water use and waste generation. Examples of GHG impacts that the Yankees are carefully trying to identify and reduce include overall energy use, team and employee travel, non-electric motors, recyclable and non-recyclable wastes. and leaks of refrigerants. For our unavoidable team aviation emissions, we have invested in a limited amount of high quality, third-party verified GHG offsets that have been carefully chosen to advance the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. Our concerted focus on implementing emission reduction was further manifested in 2024 with the installation of two higher efficiency chillers to replace the four chillers that had been installed when the stadium opened in 2009.

Additionally, the Yankees are committed to promoting a circular economy based on recycling, composting, food donations, anaerobic processing of food waste and other organic materials, and the recovery and use of waste oil. Concession stands provide fans compostable food-service packaging (trays, boxes, plates and cups) and cutlery, rather than non-compostable petroleum-based plastics, and priority is given to composting food waste to avoid combustors and landfilling. Cardboard, glass, metal, plastics and paper are recycled as well. Our commitment to reduce food waste also includes donations of wrapped, unused food to organizations such as Rock and Wrap It Up, which directly combats hunger in the metropolitan area. The Yankees’ longstanding practice of allowing fans to bring empty, non-glass refillable water bottles to our games contributed to New York City’s 2024 adoption of a law requiring all sports venues to do the same.

The Yankees formalized their decades-long commitment to sustainability in 2019 by becoming the first team in professional sports to create an Environmental Science Advisor position, appointing recognized industry leader Dr. Allen Hershkowitz to the new role. A few months later, the Yankees became the first major North American sports team to sign on to the UN Sports for Climate Action Framework. Read more about the Yankees’ sustainability efforts.

Athletics

In an early celebration of Earth Day, the A's teamed up with Goodwill of San Francisco Bay to host an electronic waste collection drive at the Coliseum on April 13. Fans were encouraged to donate old or unused electronics to help protect our local environment. For every item donated, fans received two ticket vouchers to a 2024 A’s regular season home game.

Additionally, fans who purchase a special event ticket for the A's Earth Day game versus the Nationals at athletics.com/earthday will receive a discount on their ticket purchase, and a portion of the proceeds will benefit Goodwill of San Francisco Bay's mission to provide job training and career services.

Pittsburgh Pirates

To celebrate Earth Month, the Pittsburgh Pirates distributed reusable water bottles to all front-office employees. New waste bins have been introduced throughout the ballpark, featuring clear messaging to help guests dispose of their waste in the correct stream. The old-style waste bins were donated to local organizations, Westmoreland Cleanways and Fayette County, where they will be repurposed and used in local parks.

In partnership with 412 Food Rescue, a food donation pickup will occur on Earth Day, following the previous homestand. We have launched a signage and education campaign to raise awareness about sustainability among our fans. Through signage and in-game messaging, we are encouraging sustainable practices and highlighting the partnerships of our sustainability program. Water bottle filling stations have been installed for guests to promote sustainability and reduce plastic waste.

San Diego Padres

In an effort to reduce waste at Petco Park, fans will see updated trash bins and food ware throughout the ballpark. “Landfill” bins will be converted to “compost” bins, and signage will be posted next to each receptacle informing fans which bins to toss their waste in. All bins will then be sorted by the Petco Park housekeeping team, Aramark and Republic Services to separate out the non-compostable items.

Delaware North has also made all single-use food ware compostable, including cutlery, plates and serving trays, or recyclable, including beverage cups, aluminum cans and plastic bottles. With the team on the road for Earth Day, the Padres are working with their waste hauler (Republic Services), the Petco Park housekeeping team (Aramark) and front-office staff to offer sustainability-related gameday activations at Petco Park during the immediate homestand following Earth Day. In addition to a pregame announcement video that plays on the video board prior to every home game at Petco Park, which asks fans to be mindful when sorting their waste, the Padres will soon incorporate another pregame video that provides a behind-the-scenes look at the ballpark’s sorting efforts and expresses their appreciation for the hardworking team of sorters at the facility.

In partnership with the Padres’ waste hauler, Republic Services, there will be a “touch-a-truck” activation at the game April 27 where fans can play games and learn more about the sustainability initiatives at Petco Park. The activation will take place in Gallagher Square and will comprise of a scavenger hunt to send fans around the ballpark in search of sustainability features like refillable water stations and vegetarian or vegan food options.

Lastly, the Padres have ordered “Green Glove” pins for guest service representatives to wear in celebration of the club’s first Green Glove Award. The Padres will present these pins and certificates of appreciation to their dedicated team of sorters, without whom none of this would be possible.

San Francisco Giants

In celebration of Earth Day on Tuesday, April 22, the Giants will light up Oracle Park in green, and once again team up with forever Giant Hunter Pence in support of his nonprofit Healthy Planet Project, which focuses on sustainability, reducing and preventing pollution, and creating a cleaner environment in the Bay Area. The Giants in collaboration with Hunter Pence will showcase video content featuring Pence hosting a tour of Oracle Park and highlighting notable locations that showcase the Giants environmental stewardship (i.e. LED field lights, water efficiency, landscaping, recycling, etc.) while providing educational elements throughout.

New this season and in partnership with Vytal Global, Oracle Park will serve alcoholic beverages in reusable cups on the Club level, reducing waste and emissions. Used cups will be collected, sanitized and reused. Additionally, and in collaboration with EcoProducts, plastic cups throughout Oracle Park will be replaced with compostable cups, and food-service vessels will be updated to reduce material use.

Activated again this season, the Audi Premium Garage is home to the first 50 electric vehicle chargers in Oracle Park's growing network, with 50 additional chargers to be installed this year by EverCharge, the Giants' electric vehicle charging solution provider. During Climate Week, April 21-27, the Giants will team up with California Volunteers and the State of California to encourage the Climate Action Counts campaign with a goal of uniting one million Californians to take everyday climate actions for collective impact. Californian's can take the pledge and join this growing community making a difference together. Fans can learn more about the Giants sustainability initiatives via their Community Impact Report.

Washington Nationals

While the Nationals have an off-day on April 22, every day is Earth Day at Nationals Park with season-long and year-round initiatives.

As the first major sports facility in the U.S. to earn LEED-certification by the U.S. Green Building Council, Nationals Park was a pioneer in green design upon its construction and is still considered one of the most environmentally friendly ballparks in the country today, and has been improved further with new LED field lights this offseason. The ballpark includes more than 4,000 solar panels, which supply an estimated 10% of the ballpark's electricity needs each year, and outdoor furniture built from recycled milk jugs.

Fans can catch a glimpse of the CareFirst Giving Garden above the concessions in left field; the garden minimizes roof heat gain and provides locally sourced produce to local underserved communities.