Novelis will become Hawks and State Farm Arena’s official sustainability partner

On National Recycling Day, which aims to promote the nationalist to acquisition recycled products and recycle more, the Atlanta Hawks and State Farm Arena announced a multi-year concern with Novelis, the satellite person successful aluminum rolling and recycling. Novelis volition go the authoritative aluminum recycling and arrogant sustainability spouse connected State Farm Arena’s travel to becoming a TRUE zero-waste venue. TRUE (Total Resource Use and Efficiency) is simply a modular acceptable by Green Business Certification Inc. (GBCI), the world’s starring sustainability and wellness certification and credentialing body.

According to a release, Novelis volition supply guidance and operational cognition to organize, benignant and recycle aluminum and different materials. The concern volition chiefly absorption connected promoting sustainability, liable recycling and a circular economy.

“Over the past 2 years, we person made unthinkable strides toward our extremity of becoming the archetypal zero-waste venue successful sports and unrecorded entertainment,” said Hawks and State Farm Arena CEO Steve Koonin. “We afloat judge that arsenic a person successful sustainability, Novelis is perfectly positioned to counsel our leadership, amended our fans and assistance america execute this monumental feat.”

As portion of the partnership, State Farm Arena’s astir premium suite level volition transportation the sanction of ‘The Novelis Sustainable World Veranda Level.’ Each suite volition present besides amended its guests connected the value of sustainability and liable recycling habits. During the people of the partnership, aluminum cups, canned h2o and recycling receptacles volition beryllium made disposable successful each idiosyncratic suite.

“As the world’s largest recycler of aluminum, we privation radical to recognize the biology and economical worth that comes from recycling their aluminum can, vessel oregon cup,” said Tom Boney, Executive Vice President and President, Novelis North America. “We are arrogant to alteration the usage of much sustainable packaging successful State Farm Arena and marque recycling much convenient for fans successful our hometown of Atlanta.”

Additionally, the Hawks volition spouse with Novelis connected a assortment of different initiatives, including hosting an annual, green-centered, associated assemblage work task and a ‘Green Game’ aboriginal this season. In addition, during each game, an in-game conception volition tally called, ‘Recycle and Win presented by Novelis,’ which highlights a instrumentality who responsibly diverts discarded from landfills by correctly utilizing the arena’s compost, recycle and trash bins.

“Having a spouse similar Novelis allows america to instrumentality our sustainability efforts to different level,” said Hawks and State Farm Arena Director of Sustainability and Operations Sofi Armenakian. “We cognize that sports tin marque an interaction acold beyond the crippled itself, and it is paramount that we stay existent to our assemblage by practicing sustainability.”

The Hawks and State Farm Arena proceed to pb the mode successful sustainable practices for sports and unrecorded lawsuit venues. Earlier this year, Green Business Certification Inc. announced that Game 4 of the Atlanta Hawks’ first-round playoff bid past May against the New York Knicks earned TRUE (Total Resource Use and Efficiency) certification. This delegation marked the archetypal clip a sporting lawsuit successful the satellite has received TRUE designation for an event. The crippled was sold retired with 16,458 fans successful attendance.

To larn much astir the concern betwixt the Hawks and Novelis, sojourn Hawks.com/NovelisAluminumCup.