Earth Day

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.

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.

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.

Kansas City Royals

The Royals have partnered with Boulevard Brewing Co. and the Arbor Day Foundation to plant thousands of trees throughout the Royals’ 2025 season, as well as Kansas City Parks & Recreation to facilitate local park cleanup on Earth Day. Every time a Royals player hits a home run of 425 feet or more, the Royals and Boulevard will plant 425 trees through the Arbor Day Foundation in American forests.

In addition, the Royals front office is hosting and supporting a trash cleanup in and around Kauffman Stadium. The Club and front office worked on refreshing and improving the Fountain Gardens, which is part of our Royals Sustainability program and helps provide produce for concession items at the K as well as Urban Youth Academy kids and their families.

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.

Los Angeles Dodgers

• More than 17,000 pounds of food donations to the Midnight Mission, which is nearly 60,000 items of food.
• Collected more than 48,000 pounds of aluminum and 31,000 pounds of plastic for recycling.
• Approximately 260,000lbs of cardboard recycled.
• More than 100,000 pounds of pallets recycled.
• Added recycling and trash compactors around the site for more efficient and accurate sorting of waste materials before they are hauled off site. The new compactors provide the Dodgers with the necessary infrastructure to achieve more significant waste diversion than ever before. The compactors also reduce the number of trips that waste hauling trucks need to take to Dodger Stadium, reducing traffic of large vehicles to the site. During the construction work for the addition of compactors, great care was taken to salvage and relocate trees and other plant material. Two EPIC planters were installed this offseason on the site. These self-irrigating planters collect rain and run off water and then irrigate the surrounding plant materials.

Miami Marlins

• This year the Marlins organization is celebrating Earth Day through various initiatives, highlighted by collection drives spearheaded by front office employees:
  • Staff donation drives: Marlins employees are collecting new and gently used shoes and clothing in partnership with Miami Rescue Mission, Got Sneakers and Soles4Souls; books in partnership with the Miami Book Fair and Books for You Miami; and electronic waste in partnership with MobileMe. These drives provide critical support to the local community while diverting useful items from landfills.
  • Textile recycling box: A dedicated box will be available for employees to drop off worn-out gear, ensuring these items are recycled responsibly instead of being thrown away.
• Through these initiatives, the Marlins demonstrate a continuing commitment to reducing environmental impacts -- on the field, in the community and beyond. The Miami Marlins prioritize responsible design and operations at loanDepot park. From the start, the ballpark was built to high environmental standards, becoming the first retractable-roof facility in the world to earn LEED Gold certification. Native plant species were selected for the grounds to reduce water consumption and nearly 1 million square feet of stadium lighting is being converted to LEDs, helping lower energy costs by more than 20%. Inside the ballpark, low-emitting paints and finishes support healthier air quality, while a smoke-free policy protects visitors and staff. After events, all waste is thoroughly sorted on-site to maximize recycling and reuse: aluminum and cardboard are baled, kitchen oil is collected for donation, and leftover food is either composted or shared with local organizations like Fertile Earth and Food Rescue South Florida. This approach ensures materials stay in use longer, helping minimize landfill impact.

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.

Minnesota Twins

The Twins, the first MLB Club to receive five LEED certifications -- awarded for the construction and ongoing operations and maintenance of Target Field, the “greenest ballpark in America" -- are continuing to champion environmental stewardship, on Earth Day, throughout Earth Month and all year long.

On April 21, Twins front-office staff will take part in an education session on ecosystem management with nonprofit partner Great River Greening; on April 29, employees will visit another nonprofit partner, Appetite for Change, to lay compost and get the organization’s North Minneapolis urban farm ready for growing season. (This urban farm helps provide community members with fresh produce grown locally with regenerative, sustainable and organic gardening techniques). On April 22, the Twins will celebrate Earth Day with social posts and in-ballpark video-board elements before and during their home game vs. the Chicago White Sox, while the Target Field canopy lights will be green throughout the entire game. Fans in attendance that night, and throughout the season, will also be part of comprehensive waste management efforts led by the Twins and their partners. More than 99 percent of Target Field waste is diverted from landfills each season; in fact, thanks to aggressive recycling and waste-to-energy programs, the Twins have kept more than 17,000 tons of waste out of local landfills since the ballpark opened in 2010.

New York Mets

In April 2024, Aramark partnered with Rescuing Leftover Cuisine (RLC) and the Amazin’ Mets Foundation to implement a food recovery program at Citi Field to redistribute surplus food to local nonprofits feeding the community. After each series of home New York Mets games, Aramark consolidated any excess food for RLC, who then ensure that the food found a home to nonprofit recipients in the community. Since this partnership began, RLC and Aramark has rescued more than 8,490 pounds of food from Citi Field, which has been repurposed into more than 7,070 meals for individuals in need. In addition to promoting food security in local communities, this effort prevents GHG emissions and waste, reducing the environmental impact of food disposal. For Earth Day on Tuesday, April 22, the in-game 50/50 raffle will benefit Queens Botanical Garden -- a vital organization helping to grow the beauty and resilience of Queens, while connecting people of all ages and backgrounds through nature and culture.

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.

Philadelphia Phillies

The Phillies partner with Aramark and Oak View Group on their Red Goes Green sustainability program. For each home run hit by a Phillies player during the season, a tree is planted as part of Home Runs for Trees presented by Asplundh and a partnership with the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. More than 2,200 trees have been planted in the Delaware Valley since the inception of the program in 2012. In addition, through the program, hundreds of trees have been donated to local schools. On Earth Day, members of the Phillies front office and Oak View Group participate in an annual day of service along with the Fairmount Park Conservancy at FDR Park. Each fall, employees also volunteer their time at a park cleanup during Philadelphia’s annual Love Your Park day of service.

Food waste from all Phillies kitchens is composted through W.B. Saul High School’s Henry Got Compost student composting initiative. Through the program, students are introduced to and participate in the hands-on process of composting. Designed and created by the Phillies landscaping team, the Phillies Garden offers both a source of freshly grown produce for chefs and front office employees at Citizens Bank Park and a tranquil space where employees can relax. Following home games throughout the regular season, excess meals prepared for Phillies’ players, coaches and clubhouse staff are donated to Saint John’s Hospice.

At Citizens Bank Park there is year-round recycling of various materials, including plastic, aluminum bottles, lights, carpet tiles, batteries, cardboard and appropriate construction debris. In addition, an overnight crew after home games focuses on aluminum can separation recycling. All the field tower lighting, as well as the Phillies Home Run Liberty Bell, is LED. The Homeplate VIP entrance was upgraded recently to LED, and a fully LED right field scoreboard and LED ribbon board was recently installed.

Oak View Group’s trades and management utility vehicles are all battery operated. Oak View Groups’ housekeeping staff uses environmentally-friendly cleaning sprays and paper products. Fluorescent lamps are recycled via the WM LampTracker program and replaced with LED fixtures. The Phillies have a partnership with WM to recycle all onsite e-waste via multiple pickups throughout each year. Several dual-stream trash cans on-site are made from HDPE recycled plastic.

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.

Seattle Mariners

The Mariners are proud to receive MLB’s 2025 H2O Home Run Award, celebrating exceptional achievement in water-usage reductions. This award continues T-Mobile Park’s dedication to leading green initiatives in the world of sports venues -- including two Green Glove Awards, being among the first ballparks to undergo an LED lighting retrofit and an annual recycling rate averaging 85%. The Mariners will celebrate receiving the 2024 H2O Home Run Award during the team's homestand, April 25-30.

The Mariners promote sustainability all season long with ballpark offerings such as plant-based food options and compostable food/beverage containers and by encouraging fans to take alternative and active transportation methods to the game. Through these initiatives the club continues to encourage fans to think about how they can contribute to protecting our earth, air and water.

Tampa Bay Rays

The Tampa Bay Rays and the Rays Sustainability Committee are hosting a Sustainability Week for the front office beginning Monday, April 21. Throughout the week, the Rays are hosting a T-shirt collection drive to benefit local nonprofit St. Pete Youth Farm. The T-shirts are used to create tote bags for community members to transport produce from the farm to their homes. Other highlights during the week include a sustainable staff lunch, volunteer project with the Edible Peace Patch Project, lunch & learn focused on living low waste, build-your-own granola bar, plant raffle drawing and plant seeds for staff to take home.

Tampa Bay Watch, a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering a healthy Tampa Bay watershed, will also be tabling at a Rays home game to educate fans about our local ecosystem.