Thursday, 6 April 2017

Soccer Environment


Soccer environment

In general, soccer is not very environmentally friendly. Transport is a big factor in the sport. Teams need transport, staff need it, and supporters need it. For example, I go to see Manchester United play every year so I usually fly over to England. These planes cause fossil fuels to burn as do other types of transport, buses, cars, train. Planes give off gases such as carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, water vapour and others. Teams take big coach buses to games that would give off various greenhouse gases. Massive amounts of gases effecting the environment negatively are given off all over the world from the players and spectators of the sport.

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Pitch maintenance also plays a big part on the environment. Floodlights consume energy. Sprinklers that are used to water the pitch use up energy too. A lot of money is spent on basically ruining the environment. The amount of carbon footprint there is at soccer games is unbelievable. Many people in the stadium would litter which would then bump up the carbon footprint for each person.