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Gentlemen, Start Conserving
Can Nascar really go green?
Nascar even though it is still going to be the same sport the teams, track operators and sponsors are making new green ideas.
Some environmentalists support the effects that these sports are making because it will not only boost the green economy but it will cause the fans watching the sport to realize that they can help be a green plant too.
Some of the ideas that they are doing is that they are recyling used fuel, they are planting trees around the track, and they are having sheep graze the grass in the infeild grass short.
The way that they are saving the air is that they are planting mature trees in the infield to counter act the carbon dioxide emission.
Nascar was not the first sport to become green. Baseball teams such as St. Louis Cardinals and the Seattle Mariners are recycling and conserving. There has also been a few N.B.A teams to become green.
To help with the power problem, they installed 40,000 solar panels over 25 acres of Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, PA. By adding the solar panels they are estimated to save about $500,000 a year. And the solar panels have produced as much electricity equal to 324,000 gallons of gasoline.
To help with the garbage Nascar is recycling. Nascar is now claiming to have the largest recycling program in sports because of Coca-Cola and Coors light, one of their biggest sellers. they are expected to recycle over 12 million bottles and cans each season. Coca-Cola has a machine that they uses crushes up to 1,000 cans a minute.
The people who run Nascar have realized that making Nascar green is going to be a struggle with the garbage, water, power,
sewage, and air quality being as bad as it is.
photo credit Nasa / Goddard Space Flight Center / Reto Stöckli