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In the News: Cleaning up the ’Shoe

It’s dirty, stinky, often disgusting work. But everyone doing it knows how vital it is.  

“It’s walking and walking, feet hurtin’, perseverin’, digging into bags of half-eaten food, the worst stuff in the world, but it’s essential we do it,” says Maya Hammond, a Zero Waste intern who spends her home football games sorting the waste at Ohio Stadium.  

Being on the team means spending 10 hours at Ohio Stadium on game days without a single play watched, arriving before anyone else, leaving after everyone else, and helping make sure the stadium is maintaining its zero waste goals – diverting 90 percent or more of waste materials from landfills by recycling and composting. 

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