CheckSammy Joins Green Sports Alliance as a Play to Zero Partner
Dallas, TX March 1, 2023 – CheckSammy announces today that it has become an official program partner of the Green Sports Alliance (GSA), an environmentally and socially focused nonprofit organization that convenes stakeholders from around the sporting world to promote healthy, sustainable communities. The GSA inspires professional sports leagues, sports governing bodies, colleges, teams, venues, their partners and millions of fans to embrace meaningful change toward a more sustainable future.
CheckSammy joins GSA’s Play to Zero program, an initiative with the goal of moving the sports industry to net zero energy, net zero water, and zero waste by improving environmental performance, supporting boots-on-the-ground community efforts, and engaging fans to act.
“We’re excited to work together with the Green Sports Alliance to help tangibly bring sustainable outcomes to their member organizations” said Sam Scoten, CheckSammy’s Founder and CEO. We’ve heard from many stadiums and teams that they want to become more sustainable but don’t know how to begin or who to go to, and we know that CheckSammy is the best place they could start”.
This partnership solidifies CheckSammy’s commitment to being a catalyst to improve corporate sustainability practices for teams, leagues, venues, their partners and sponsors. The new partnership also supports GSA’s mission to use the influence of sports to promote sustainable practices across the globe. The organization’s members include over 300 professional sports leagues, sports governing bodies, colleges, teams, and venues representing millions of fans.
“As we track, measure, and recognize positive sustainability impact with our Play to Zero® program, the Green Sports Alliance is thrilled to welcome an innovative leader in waste diversion, CheckSammy, as a Play to Zero® Partner,” said Roger McClendon, Executive Director of the Green Sports Alliance.
About CheckSammy
CheckSammy offers same-day waste removal, recycling and sustainability services throughout North America. Leveraging data-centric proprietary technology, customized solutions and its nationwide network of independent haulers and reverse recycling carriers, CheckSammy tackles each customer’s complex waste and recycling challenges in a fiscally and environmentally sustainable way. As a trusted partner to many of the world’s leading brands, CheckSammy helps customers of all sizes navigate an unregulated waste system with technology to inform smarter, more transparent business decisions. Visit www.checksammy.com to learn more.
About the Green Sports Alliance
The Green Sports Alliance leverages the cultural and market influence of sports to promote healthy, sustainable communities where people live and play. The Green Sports Alliance convenes professional sports leagues, sports governing bodies, colleges, teams, venues, their partners, and millions of fans around meaningful change toward a more sustainable future. Through the Play to Zero® program, it leads the embrace of renewable energy, waste diversion, water efficiency, and environmentally preferable practices. Through its marquee event greening division, The Green Sports Alliance delivers best-in-class sustainable productions to minimize environmental impacts and maximize community legacies, driving scalability and replications across the industry. The Green Sports Alliance is committed to sharing best practices, visit greensportsalliance.org for more information.
