BATON ROUGE — LSU football is renowned nationwide for its tradition of tailgating on football Saturdays. This year, LSU is encouraging its thousands of game day football fans to keep the campus clean by beefing up its refuse collection points and creating a recycling program.
LSU is expanding the clean up program by doubling the number of non-disposable containers on campus and adding new recycling containers and pickup service. Also, LSU will schedule more trash pickup routes before, during and after games.
Last year, LSU placed approximately 2,000 cardboard box containers throughout the campus. This year, LSU will replace those non-recyclable cardboard containers with 3,000 reusable solid waste containers, and will supplement that effort with 1,000 recycling containers.
“On the day of a football game at LSU, over 110,000 people assemble on one of the most beautiful college campuses in the country,” said LSU Athletics Director Skip Bertman. “It is one of the greatest gatherings of fans in all of sports. But to preserve the beauty of our campus, we believe it is important to provide our fans with the tools to keep it clean.”
For safety reasons, and as part of the recycling program, LSU is discouraging the use of glass on the campus on game day. Broken glass in parking lots and fields has resulted in a number of injuries to both adults and children on the LSU campus.
“We hope Tiger fans will take advantage of our new recycling stations to use plastic containers and cans for their tailgating activities,” Bertman said. “It will help us keep the campus both safe and clean.”
LSU Athletics has committed over $118,000 to the disposal of solid waste and recycling at LSU football games this fall.