GP PRO joined sustainability trailblazers from Lumen Field, Oracle Park and Progressive Field at this year’s Green Sports Alliance (GSA) Summit at the Huntington Convention Center in Cleveland. As a Gold sponsor of this year’s GSA Summit, GP PRO showcased how its data-driven innovation, the Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled KOLO Smart Monitoring System, helped venues turn zero-waste goals into measurable business outcomes.
“Resilience in sports operations requires building a foundation of data that empowers teams to be more proactive and productive,” says John Strom, vice president and general manager, Innovation at GP PRO. “By using KOLO Smart Monitoring to help reduce source waste, the visionaries at Lumen Field, Oracle Park and Progressive Field are creating more sustainable, circular playbooks, enabling them to win the ‘waste game’ at every stage of their journey while facilitating a more sustainable future for the sports industry.”
During their respective 2025 sports seasons, these three iconic venues leveraged the KOLO System’s real-time alerts to drive significant gains in operational efficiency and sustainability while achieving up to 60 percent reductions in source waste. Key highlights include:
Seattle’s Lumen Field remains relentless in its quest to ensure a resilient legacy for the Pacific Northwest and the sports industry at large. Central to this strategy is the deployment of the KOLO Smart Monitoring System across 1,100 tissue and towel dispensers — a move that has empowered frontline hospitality and custodial teams to move from guesswork to data-driven precision.
“We have seen a huge impact on our operations thanks to the KOLO System,” says Christy Briggs, sustainability manager, Lumen Field. “The technology itself, which has a low footprint and was installed in days, packs a big punch by saving thousands of rolls of paper to reduce our upstream waste by 75 percent.”
Looking ahead, Lumen Field is exploring how Georgia-Pacific Recycling (GP Recycling) could assist in direct-to-mill materials recovery, remove unnecessary and costly links from its supply chain and ensure sorted materials have a verifiable second life.
“Resilience is being prepared for what the world will be in 10 years by having a strategy today about the materials you use and how to reduce, reuse and recover waste as part of closed-loop sustainability,” Briggs concludes. “Your success may look different from mine, but once the framework is in place, you will see recurring results that ultimately will make a difference.”
