1. WASTE MANAGEMENT CASE STUDY - PATRIOT PLACE AND THE TOTAL RECYCLING PROGRAM
Patriot Place — Doubled Landfill Waste Diversion
Patriot Place, a 1.3 million-square-foot shopping, dining and entertainment destination located adjacent
to Gillette Stadium, is New England’s premier sports and entertainment venue that houses the NFL’s New
England Patriots and MLS’ New England Revolution. Patriot Place offers a mix of national and boutique
retailers, entertainment venues, 16 dining establishments, a world-class medical facility and real estate for
special events, generating more organic waste than a traditional shopping center.
Recognizing the opportunities to reduce waste, Patriot Place Shopping Center partnered with Waste
Management’s Total Recycling Program to increase single-stream recycling and implement organic waste
diversion.
The Total Recycling Program (TRP) helps customers achieve sustainability goals via initiatives such as
facility-wide materials management training, assessments and composition analyses, innovative proprietary
environmental reporting, and stakeholder engagement. The TRP team and Patriot Place executive
management collaborated for 12 months before launching the Waste, Recycling & Organics (WRO) program.
The TRP team designed the program and supported the shopping center throughout the rollout, during the
height of the professional football and holiday shopping season, which included tenant meetings, equipment
tutorials, evening and weekend container monitoring, janitorial trainings, optimization of container and
collection service, live load audits, and continuous communication and improvements.
This successful collaboration led to Patriot Place being one of the first shopping centers in Massachusetts to
divert organics from the landfill and the WRO program serves as a role model for other shopping centers to
replicate. The partnership yielded significant results in its first quarter:
• Decreased waste by 32 tons
• Increased the landfill waste diversion rate from 26 percent to 44 percent
• Diverted 90 tons of organics from the landfill, reducing CO2 emissions by 82 metric tons
By working together on a big idea, Patriot Place and its tenants, stakeholders and service providers were able
to use Waste Management’s Total Recycling Program to exceed their goals. By reducing waste and firmly
establishing an organics program, Patriot Place has positioned themselves as a leader in sustainable growth.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
The sustainability efforts in 2015
diverted a total of 640 tons of
material from landfills and converted
845 tons of waste to energy. The
following resources were conserved:
306, 030 kW-hrs of electricity
Enough to power 29 homes annually
953 mature trees
Enough to produce 11,800,000 sheets
of newspaper
555,940 gallons of water
Enough to meet the daily fresh water
needs of 7,412 people
820 cubic yards of landfill airspace
Enough airspace to meet the annual
disposal needs of a community of 1,053
people
For more on this and other ways Waste
Management can help your company
with environmental efforts, please visit:
www.wm.com/trp or contact
Michelle Lee Guiney at 508.930.7824
or mguiney2@wm.com
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