The University of Tennessee has cut down its costs on transporting trash and increased its recycling totals for Neyland Stadium over the last decade.
According to the Knoxville Sentinel, UT spent less than $400,000 a year transporting trash, and recycling has reached approximately 30 percent of total waste, UT Recycling Manager Jay Price told the newspaper.
That’s a huge decrease from the nearly $900,000 UT spent in 2007 to send its trash to a landfill. At the time, campus-wide recycling was nine percent of total waste.
“We were literally throwing almost $1 million away,” Price said.