Perhaps fittingly, the University of Colorado is leading the Pac-12 Conference's sustainability endeavors.
On Wednesday, the league announced that Colorado was the winner of the "Pac-12 Zero Waste Challenge" for the 2018 football season.
The Pac-12 Zero Waste Challenge is held annually during the football and basketball seasons. Each university selects one home football game and one home basketball game to compete and provide a platform for engaging on best practices in waste diversion. As part of the competition, each university submitted a scorecard describing the efforts around its Zero Waste game. Criteria is weighted as such: 25 percent participation and partnerships, 25 percent innovation credit and 50 percent stadium diversion rate.