Dive Summary:

• The University of Kansas Athletics has partnered with KU Recycling to reduce the volume of waste that is placed in landfills after home football games.
• The initiative "Rock Chalk Recycle" includes the installation of waste stations where separate containers collect different types of trash: recyclables, compostables and regular garbage.
• The main goal of the program is to attain zero waste status and educate the public about recycling and composting.

From the article:

“We are the first in the Big 12 to take on all sports with this comprehensive approach to waste reduction, said Manny Abarca, operations coordinator for KU Recycling.

“There’s already a pretty clear difference in the amount of trash we’ve been able to divert,” said Jeff Severin, the director of the Center for Sustainability.

“We’re going from having a stadium that didn’t have any recycling or composting at all, to cutting out a major portion of what is going into the dumpsters. It’s going to have a pretty dramatic effect,” Severin said.