BOCA RATON, FL (CNN) - Florida's Allianz golf Championship is just around the corner. It brings with it thousands of visitors to Boca Raton and tons of waste.
That's why the club and the tournament are teaming up to reduce the amount of waste and make the course an example for others.
All appearances to the contrary, golf tournaments, and the courses they are played on could be greener. "The golf course community around the world gets some flak for the amount of fertilizers and chemicals and things they use on the golf course," says Ryan Dillon.
Boca Raton's premiere golf tournament is working on lessening their carbon footprint. "With the food composter, all the excess food that our spectators don't eat, will be placed into this thing and turned into basically fertilizer," says Dillon. That's just one of many changes taking place for the tournament.
"The tournament and broken sound have taken that to the next level," says Dillon. A level they plan to reach, through the use of new solar technology, second generation recyclable materials and trees. "We are tracking every truck that comes in here, every amount of labor, every car trip going back and forth, all of our spectators that are coming in," says Dillon. "We are taking the calculation of the carbon offset, and the vendor is paying that back. With that money, we are going to use that locally in Boca Raton, to plant more trees or to add to their natural wildlife areas."
The Allianz Championship's goal is to reduce its carbon footprint by at least thirty percent.
