ATLANTA – Today, it was announced by the Atlanta Hawks and State Farm Arena that they have successfully diverted more than 1,033,716 pounds of waste from landfills throughout its 2021 slate of Hawks’ basketball games, concerts and ancillary events. Most notably, the award-winning venue prioritized changes in its operations and sustainability efforts to go from diverting nearly 10 percent of waste in 2019 to now diverting an average of more than 90 percent of waste on any given gameday or event day throughout the entire slate of events.
“As we continue our journey of becoming the first TRUE certified zero-waste venue in sports and live entertainment, diverting more than one million pounds in a calendar year is an incredible feat and brings us that much closer to our goal,” said Hawks and State Farm Arena Director of Sustainability and Operations Sofi Armenakian.