Scotsdale, Aric. – 5 am in Tpc ScottsdaleAnd about 120 WM employees have arrived to spend the time of their calls at the sustainability headquarters, a movement area that floats next to the thirteenth greenery and the fourteenth sand. The atmosphere is cold and dark, and the golf course is invisible. But everyone here wears a smile on their faces, ready to treat another day to keep WM Phoenix Open Zero waste occurred.
After stabilizing, eat a snack on breakfast, and coffee, this group is ready for its morning meeting, which starts every day at 5:30. Consultative Services Li Spavak and Chad Boden, Director of Group Operations for the Four Equipment, leads the road, providing enthusiasm and instilling confidence in the audience. These employees are all the managers of the region for this week, making their time to make WM Phoenix open the golden standard for sustainability. SPIVAK and Bowden also enhances the bases of sellers, and guarantee everyone, including those who sell food, alcohol and goods, and use methods that can be reusable and get rid of what they no longer need. If one of the region’s managers discovers a violation, they must immediately contact Spivak, who will take care of the issue and teach the guilty party about how to improve their position.
Immediately after their morning meeting at approximately 6 am, the managers of the 120 region will locate their golf vehicles and go to their areas. Some of them are set in the well -recreated sites around the club, while others have the arduous task of maintaining the sixteenth hole, with the famous “run” that includes more than 20,000 fans, clean and wasteless. Each director in an area will continue to lead approximately 600 temporary workers who have been appointed for the week, sweeping boxes, and keep the training course clean. But they don’t have a lot of time to get TPC Scottsdale ready. Fans fans who help make the tournament unique at 7 am, which means that all concerned are less than an hour to prepare.
Of course, WM Phoenix Open is known as “The People’s Open”, a large party that should be in the list of a bucket of golf fans. The sixteenth hole receives most of the attention because there is nothing in the golf game compared to it. But if you have been attended by WM Phoenix Open, you will not see a waste of waste, which is an impressive fact given that more than 100,000 visits to the session per day. The third round often sees on Saturday more than 200,000 visitors, an unhelpful number that cannot be compared to another American sporting event.
Small yellow and green boxes – 4800 in total – are located everywhere in the cycle. You can’t miss you and you pass the TPC Scottsdale. Yellow boxes combine organic fertilizers, such as reusable coffee cups, food cutting, napkins, and bamboo utensils. Green boxes receive bottles, cans and reusable cups.
Whenever the box reaches a capacity, the WM district manager or a temporary factor is operated through it, ensuring that everything is set enough. This process begins immediately after the end of the morning meeting and continues throughout the day.
Despite the massive flow of people, WM Phoenix Open is still a zero event, something has been proud of WM since this tournament became completely sustainable and wasteless in 2013.
Daily operations in the sixteenth hole embody this.
The huge loudspeakers lined up on the vicinity of the stadium, but they sit behind the walls, barely noticeable for countless fans who walk. They are compatible with the boxes in the course: yellow for fertilizer and green for recycling. But instead of sellers, employees, and temporary workers who transport the full boxes up and down on the stadium stairs, all garbage has a long shift extending to the upper part of the stadium. At each level, SHUTE has an opening associated with applicable colors: yellow for fertilizer and green for recycling. It is a great but simple process that makes it easy for everyone to get rid of what they no longer need.
Dozens of these stages are lined up on the stadium wing levels in the sixteenth hole, all of which are necessary because food and bars sellers fall every 10 feet inside the corridors. Also, small white basins are widespread throughout the wing areas, and only ice water. Then the water is recycled and recycled to those throughout Arizona, which is another decisive part of this tournament and sustainability.
Food is served even in recycled paper cups, whether it is Caesar salad, pasta plate, chicken or prekatite. The parts are allocated correctly. M Culinary Concepts, the company that manages food operations in the hospitality areas in the tournament, conducted countless studies to ensure that people are not wasted too much. Each part of this year is nearly eight ounces, which are impressive details that can pass easily without anyone noticing. However, if people have the remains of the food they throw, these food scraps are collected by WM. Then the scraps are distributed to the worm farms, which create fertilizers rich in fertilizer and rich in nutrients for gardens and agriculture.
Everything can be reused in the property, including goods, which are characterized by clothes made of plastic bottles. Yes, WM collects bottles and cans, divides them into parts, and charges the pieces into a facility in North Carolina, which makes spinning after that. The spinning is then used to create shirts, traps, and caps, all available in the goods tent in TPC Scottsdale. You cannot find out the difference between products either.
“We are really proud of how [the WM Phoenix Open] Associated with the purpose of our brand, which always works with a sustainable tomorrow’s golf game. We always work for a sustainable tomorrow. We focus on three feelings in WM: the materials are re -used, the energy is renewable, and societies are thrived. SB nation.
“If you are thinking about local communities, one of the things we really are proud of in this event is since we were a shepherd in 2010, we participated with Thunderbirds to donate more than $ 142 million to local charities across Wadi until last year. We collected 17.5 million dollar. “
Part of these charitable efforts go to the Tomorrow Fund, which aims to reduce emissions, manage support materials, and maintain water management projects in Arizona. The southwestern United States has always had a water shortage, so maintaining as much water as possible is not a choice – it is a must. Thunderbirds also donates $ 1 for tomorrow’s box for Green on Saturday; Other shepherds, sellers and private donors also support the box. The 2024 championship raised $ 419,000 for this fund, which is an impressive amount in its first year.
But now, WM is looking to apply these strategies to other events, inside and outside the golf. They collaborated with We are open Recently, it has created a relationship with the main baseball league. WM will bring these efforts to the All-Star game for this year in Atlanta.
WM has become a model for facilitating a zero event and waste and codes everyone who attends. For a better and more sustainable tomorrow, everyone, from WM employees to the players to the fans, must contribute to their fair share – and to benefit from the environment in and around Arizona, WM Phoenix Open is an example.
Jack Milko is a golf team writer to play SB NATA through. Follow it on x @jack_milko.
