Hip Young Things

The US open tennis tournament has been focusing on its green initiatives to help educate people and make the tournament as eco-friendly as possible. The first thing that the tournament did was to hire on of the top environmental consultants and started to figure out how they could make the tournament more eco-friendly and how it could be done. The first thing that was done was to partner with the Evian water company and create ways to recycle for people who are attending the event. That way every time that someone buys and drinks a water bottle at the event they have the option to recycle it. The program had a goal of recycling about 500,000 plastic bottles and 20,000 aluminum cans at the tennis event.  The water company made sure to put about 80 receptacles around the event so that the recycling effort and goals could be met easily.

Something fun that is done in the effort to recycle is that the tennis balls that will be used at the event will then be recycled and donated to youth tennis programs around the country. So kids could be using a little piece of tennis history as their serving ball. They thing about 20,000 balls will meet this fate after the tournament takes place. That is just too cool!

Hybrid vehicles are being utilized at the event as well. 20 percent of the tournament vehicles will be hybrid. This will help cut down on the amount of emissions and help with the green goals for the tournament.

Last year, Heidi Klum and Billie Jean King helped to design t-shirts, hats and other tournament souvenirs for the event that were made out of organic materials like cotton. The hats that were made for the tournament are made of about 50 percent post consumer waste, and could contain the plastic of a two liter bottle!

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