Club supports Green Football Weekend

Tottenham Hotspur is proud to continue its support for Green Football Weekend for the second consecutive year following the successful launch of the initiative in February, 2023.

The campaign, which culminates on the weekend of 2-5 February, aims to raise awareness of how individual action can take the fight to climate change.

In May, 2023, Tottenham Hotspur was announced as the Premier League’s greenest club for a fourth year running, having once again topped the Sport Positive EPL league table, reflecting the Club’s commitment to environmental sustainability across everything it does.

Over the coming days in the lead up to Green Football Weekend, the Club will be highlighting steps fans can take to reduce their own carbon footprint in a number of areas, with the help of expert environmental journalist, Anna Turns. 

We kick-off with tips on how to reduce single-use plastic…

What the Club does

The Club has reduced the use of single-use plastic across its operations with a long-term commitment to phasing it out completely. Steps include:

• Removing all single-use plastic water bottles from the stadium and Training Centre, exclusively offering carton water to staff, players and fans
• Including a requirement to cut single-use plastics in any new stadium contracts. Heineken, the Club’s Official Beer Partner, no longer supply single use plastic to the stadium – beer is supplied in cans or glass/aluminium bottles
• Offering a fully digital ticketing process to eliminate the need for plastic Season Ticket/Membership cards or paper tickets
• Implementing a reusable beer cup scheme at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium where cups are collected after matches, taken off site to be washed, then returned for further use. Plastic caps on beer kegs are also recycled, reducing the stadium’s draught dispense single-use waste plastic by over 100kg’s per season
• Eliminating use of plastic straws, stirrers, cutlery and all plastic disposable packaging

Anna's tips

“We currently live in a single-use society where everything from food packaging to fast fashion eventually ends up in landfill or gets incinerated.

“These synthetic plastics are made from petrochemicals – fossil fuels – and their energy-intensive production and disposal results in harmful greenhouse gas emissions. Not to mention the way some toxic chemicals inside plastics can disrupt our hormones and affect human health. Just by collectively making a few simple choices to avoid common single-use items, we can massively reduce our plastic footprints.”

• Don't chuck it - cigarettes, vapes, chewing gum, glitter makeup, most teabags all contain hidden plastics that won’t biodegrade, so make sure everything ends up safely in the bin rather than littering the streets or washing down the drain.
• Ditch the disposables - take your own water bottle with you on a walk, commute with your own reusable coffee cup, take a cloth bag to the shops or pack your lunch into a reusable container. Just establish one new reusable habit.
• Join the refill revolution - Download the Refill app to find your nearest refill station for everything from washing detergent and shampoo to food and household cleaning products – using the same container over and over again reduces the need to produce more, plus it means you only buy what you need.

Visit https://www.greenfootballweekend.com/ to take an individual action or pledge against climate change.