Community Partners

2014 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro Am

earns

Environmental Certification

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

Set Scope

Identified Issues

EngagedStakeholders

Benchmarked and Researched Solutions

planning

Responsibilities

Implement Certification

FacilitateTraining and Education

Connect Supply Chain

Communicate

Document

implementation

How did we do it?

DefinedSustainability Policy

Connected withSupply Chain and Tent

Companies

Coordinated Diversion Strategy

Create a local Offset Project

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

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.

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

A once-full trash dumpster is picked nearly clean after recoverable materials are sorted out.

14,500 lbs of food waste was sent to the anaerobic digester for composting in Marina.

Broken furniture was reused by connecting with a Monterey furniture restoration company.

Three 30-yd container full of laminate flooring was brought to the Last Chance Mercantile in Marina for sale and reuse.

A forklift loads 29,000 pounds of Astroturf and fence mesh into a 53 foot semi truck to be driven to LA for reuse.

Approximately 40,600 lbs of wood was sent to landfill to be chipped into mulch or resold . That is about 15 20 yard dumpsters.

15 bags of chip wrappers were collected. They will be sent to TerraCycle to be upcycled into reusable grocery bags.

Event cable and course rope was collected and sent to HOPE Services who resells it.

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.

7,184 pounds of fresh food was sent to the Food Bank of Monterey County

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