Earth Day, Every Day
It's Earth Day, and our commitment to protecting the planet is important to us.
Company-wide, we've begun using the Revolution trash bag in place of a traditional petroleum-based product. This has saved 9.6 metric tons of greenhouse gases from being released into the atmosphere.
In addition, this year Midtown Athletic Club in Palatine partnered with Retour Tennis and installed Ad-In Bins located near our tennis courts, so members can recycle their used tennis balls. Since January, members have kept 1,000 tennis balls out of landfills by using these bins. We hope to roll out this program across all clubs in the coming months.
Read more about our program here.
Most of our clubs also feature water bottle filling stations to encourage members to bring and use their reusable water bottle instead of buying a plastic one. The waste from many hundreds of thousands of plastic water bottles has been eliminated through the use of these filling stations.
In addition, our tennis and basketball courts feature motion sensor lighting, so that we save on energy usage when the courts are not in use.
These are just a few of the many green initiatives we've implemented, with many more to come in the future.