In recognition of Earth Day, the Red Sox will donate $25,000 to the City of Boston’s Parks and Recreation Department to support their efforts to maintain clean, green, safe, and accessible open space in the Fenway neighborhood. Officials from the Parks and Recreation Department along with representatives from Coca-Cola will join the Red Sox in a pregame ceremony celebrating greening efforts during a pregame ceremony before tonight’s 7:10 p.m. Red Sox-Tigers game. 

After the game, the club will organize and sort all trash to recover the recyclables and separate the food waste for composting. The postgame sorting of waste will be done in partnership with Aramark, Fenway Park’s concessionaire. Over the past two seasons, the Red Sox have conducted six waste sorts, recovering and diverted a total of 21,963 pounds of recyclables from landfills. The club also diverted 673,920 pounds of composting from landfills during the 2018 season.

The efforts on Earth Day are part of the club’s ongoing commitment to make Fenway Park more environmentally friendly. In 2018, the club announced that 100 percent of the ballpark’s electricity consumption through 2019 will be offset with Green-e certified renewable energy certificates (RECs) through the club’s electricity supply partner, Engie. The Red Sox are one of four Major League teams to offset their ballpark energy consumption by purchasing RECs. 

In addition to the renewable energy certificates, the Red Sox have reduced Fenway Park’s total electric usage by 12 percent since 2014 by working with New England’s largest energy provider, Eversource, on 20 different energy conservation projects, such as retrofitting the ballpark with LED lighting, automated lighting controls throughout the park, and the installation of high efficiency heating equipment. 

The “greening” of Fenway Park has been ongoing since 2008 when the club created the Green Team, presented by Dasani, and installed solar thermal panels at Fenway Park – the first professional sports team to do so. Even the field maintenance systems feature irrigation timing and diagnostic controls to minimize water and fertilizer use.

In 2015, the Red Sox created an organic rooftop garden behind the Gate A Fenway Park façade that provides rooftop-to-table vegetables and herbs throughout the baseball season. Produce and herbs grown in Fenway Farms, presented by Orsted, Sage Fruit, Pennington, and Aramark, are used in food products prepared at ballpark concession stands and club restaurants. Approximately 6,000 pounds of food were harvested last season with almost no emissions.

The club’s greening efforts have been recognized with awards from the EPA, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, and MassRecycle. For more information on the greening of Fenway Park, click here.