Minnesota Twins- As many of you might know today is earth day and the twins just won a major award for earth day known as the green glove which means the most waste diversion in 2026! Target field is a great eco friendly environment with great features including Pentair which contains recycled water from underneath the grass in the outfield! The twins are one of the best eco friendly and community innovative teams within all of north American sports this is a really cool award and a good initiative for Major League Baseball! They were also named a Community Impact Finalist and a Environmental Stewardship Finalist. Great news for the twins and great imitative for sports to help take care of the place we call home! Down below our some stats for the MLB season about environmental factors.
Donated 180 tons of excess food, providing 300,575 meals to local communities.
Recycled 2,447 tons of cardboard, the same weight as almost 16 million baseballs.
Diverted 10,932 tons of recyclable materials from landfill, the same weight as almost 729,000 World Series trophies.
Composted over 9,200 tons of organic materials, the same weight as almost 14 million baseball gloves.