Global apparel brand Adidas has built a sustainable artificial American football field using 1.8 million plastic bottles collected from remote islands, beaches, coastal communities and shorelines.
Artificial turf fields typically use large amounts of virgin plastics and re-ground rubber. Thus, using ocean plastic that would otherwise end up in landfill, or continue to pollute the water, provides a sustainable solution.
To create the field, the collected plastic was washed and treated before being made into pellet-like infill. Adidas’s director of football, Cameron Collins, said: “We believe that through sport we have the power to change lives, and this field is a demonstration of our taking action on that belief. It is more than a place for these young athletes to play; it is a reminder of our collective responsibility to end plastic waste.”
The field was donated to Miami Edison High School in the US.
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Global apparel brand Adidas has built a sustainable artificial American football field using 1.8 million plastic bottles collected from remote islands, beaches, coastal communities and shorelines.
Artificial turf fields typically use large amounts of virgin plastics and re-ground rubber. Thus, using ocean plastic that would otherwise end up in landfill, or continue to pollute the water, provides a sustainable solution.
To create the field, the collected plastic was washed and treated before being made into pellet-like infill. Adidas’s director of football, Cameron Collins, said: “We believe that through sport we have the power to change lives, and this field is a demonstration of our taking action on that belief. It is more than a place for these young athletes to play; it is a reminder of our collective responsibility to end plastic waste.”
The field was donated to Miami Edison High School in the US.