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.