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Kansas City Chiefs ‘go nuts’ over compostable peanut bag

First-of-its-kind compostable packaging for peanuts debuts at Arrowhead Stadium, scoring a victory for the Kansas City Chief’s Extra Yard for the Environment program.

Arrowhead Stadium has become the first-ever professional sports venue to sell a prepacked compostable peanut bag.
Arrowhead Stadium has become the first-ever professional sports venue to sell a prepacked compostable peanut bag.

The Kansas City Chiefs football team is going the extra yard by scoring a major victory for the environment. Thanks to a collaboration between BASF, Aramark, and Hampton Farms, BASF reports that Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, MO, has become the first-ever professional sports venue to sell a prepacked compostable peanut bag.

The compostable peanut bag is part of the Chiefs’ environmental initiative, Extra Yard for the Environment, which is designed to devise and implement new green policies for the Chiefs, while also raising awareness for sustainability efforts at Arrowhead Stadium. Debuting at the November 26, 2017 game, the compostable peanut bag is being sold throughout general concessions and in-seat vending, with the goal of expanding to other areas of Arrowhead Stadium following the pilot phase.

Snack food packaging was chosen as an area improvement as more than 15,000 bags of peanuts are sold in concessions at Arrowhead Stadium each year. To find ways to further advance the Extra Yard for the Environment program and Arrowhead’s waste-diversion methods, the Chiefs approached Aramark, the team’s general concessionaire.

Says BASF, when it comes to selling peanuts, Aramark’s roots run deep. The company’s founder began selling peanuts out of his car in 1932, laying the foundation for what would eventually become snack vending. Aramark now sells more than 1.1 million bags of peanuts annually at sporting events and, once again, is playing a role in transforming how peanuts are sold.

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