2. planning
Environmental Credit Highlights
• Achieved 93 percent waste diversion through composting and reuse strategies.
• Up-cycled chip bags and granola bar wrappers into new products via Terracycle.
• Measured the event’s water footprint and implementing water conservation measures.
• Measured the carbon footprint of event operations and offsetting those emissions.
• Implemented a new sustainable procurement policy.
• Sent compostable materials to a local anaerobic digester to produce renewable energy.
• Developed plans to reach under-represented groups through our sorting teams
• Donated leftover food to the local food bank.
• Supported local businesses.
• Purchased 25 percent local or sustainably produced food.
Overview
3. Set Scope
Identified Issues
Engaged
Stakeholders
Benchmarked and
Researched Solutions
planning
Responsibilities
Implement Certification
Facilitate
Training and Education
Connect
Supply Chain
Communicate
Document
implementation
How did we do it?
Defined
Sustainability Policy
Connected with
Supply Chain and Tent
Companies
Coordinated Diversion
Strategy
Create a local Offset Project
4. Stakeholders
Training and Education
Increased zero waste education and
signage in all Pebble Beach concession
areas
Trained AT&T committee chairs on
vision
Educated vendors and sponsors
through a Sustainability Policy
Diversion Strategies
Created supply partners for material
Worked with MRWMD on processing
material
Worked with tent companies to source
separate materials
Created sorting teams
5. Highlights
AT&T achieved a 93% diversion rate.
85 dumpsters were pulled from the event.
Only 5 of those were considered trash…. As of March 4th
The Monterey Peninsula Foundation has donated an
electric vehicle charging station to the City of Monterey as
part of a campaign to offset 100% of the event carbon
emissions locally.
PBC and MPF replaced a large percentage of the
products used in concessions and volunteer areas with
compostable products and local foods.
Hundreds of hours were spent training PBC staff
and event vendors on diversion strategies that
allowed TOP to achieve the high diversion that
we did.
6. Conservation Corp sorting teams go through all trash bags for
recoverable materials. 93% of all event material was diverted
from the landfill.
Zero Waste Solutions
7. A once-full trash dumpster is picked nearly clean after
recoverable materials are sorted out.
8. 14,500 lbs of food waste was sent to the anaerobic
digester for composting in Marina.
9. Broken furniture was reused by connecting with a
Monterey furniture restoration company.
10. Three 30-yd container full of laminate flooring was
brought to the Last Chance Mercantile in Marina for
sale and reuse.
11. A forklift loads 29,000 pounds of Astroturf and
fence mesh into a 53 foot semi truck to be driven
to LA for reuse.
12. Approximately 40,600 lbs of wood was sent to landfill to
be chipped into mulch or resold . That is about 15 20 yard
dumpsters.
13. 15 bags of chip wrappers were collected. They will
be sent to TerraCycle to be upcycled into reusable
grocery bags.
14. Event cable and course rope was collected and sent
to HOPE Services who resells it.
15. Styrofoam from the Players Hospitality building is
loaded into three of these Penske trucks and taken to
our sorting area. Styrofoam is donated to Waste to
Waves, a Santa Cruz company that makes local
surfboards.
16. 7,184 pounds of fresh food was sent to the
Food Bank of Monterey County
17. Special thanks to Rico Tesio for providing the support
and dedication needed to push this certification
forward.
Special thanks to the Waste Management team. TOP
could not have done this without you…
The Monterey Peninsula Foundation should be proud of their
environmental achievements.
Thank you
