Destination for over half a million sports fans annually, historic Eden Park (est. 1900) is New Zealand's largest stadium and most iconic sports venue. With a target of zero landfill waste by the end of 2023, the park has a ‘compostable only’ policy for all food made on-site: every burger, chip, hotdog and pie is supplied in fully compostable packaging – that includes knives, forks and napkins.
Green games: Eden Park
At Eden Park, they’re serious about waste diversion. The high-profile park has a range of innovative and unique sustainable solutions in play - from onsite gardening and composting, through to onsite EV charging, and even bees!
For big events, that's a big reduction in waste: during last year’s Six60 concert - attended by 50,000 fans - the stadium was able to divert almost four tonnes of waste from landfill.
Eden Park works with GrowSpace, a local social enterprise, to run the Morningside Urban Market Garden onsite, providing migrant and refugee women with the opportunity to learn about urban market gardening and sell products to local cafes. The Morningside Urban Compost Kitchen is Eden Park's on-site composting hub, which also processes organic waste from local cafes and houses within the Eden Park precinct.
The stadium has its own water bore and bespoke treatment plant, collecting and treating rainwater onsite and using it to water the field, reducing its draw from the local water supply by up to16 million litres per year, with rainwater collected for maintenance, landscaping applications, and cleaning.
And don’t forget the bees! Eden Park even has its own beehives onsite, with around 360,000 bees currently calling the park home. The honey they produce is sold at reception with demand exceeding supply.
As part of its ongoing commitment to cutting-edge sustainable operation, Eden Park is now undertaking a major modernisation project, known as Eden Park 2.0.
The future-proofing initiative will use cutting-edge energy-efficient design principles, sustainable building materials, and will explore options to generate renewable energy onsite, provide additional water conservation and waste management improvements, and provide support for sustainable transportation options such as e-bikes.
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