Pacers & Fever Announce "Green" Initiatives

Pacers Sports and Entertainment announced a series of programs that have been launched in Conseco Fieldhouse to make operations more environmentally friendly. The announcement coincides with the first ever NBA Green Week.

The "Green" programs in Conseco Fieldhouse are aimed at energy conservation and eco-friendly operating changes. These efforts include:

  • Upgrading a high-percentage of the light bulbs in Conseco Fieldhouse to instruments that conserve energy
  • Moving cleaning products and solutions to Enviro-Friendly products
  • Adding more aggressive recycling programs and collections in offices and in the public areas of the Fieldhouse; including paper, plastic items, cans, glass containers and printer cartridges

    Also, PS&E has partnered with both Aramark and Levy Restaurants, the food-service vendors in Conseco Fieldhouse to bolster the Green efforts. Additional programs that are part of this effort include:

  • Adding water coolers to operations areas to decrease use of individual plastic water bottles by staff
  • Use of recycled paper products and more easily recycled food trays and containers, as well as towels, napkins and the like
  • Locally grown vegetables for the Chef's Harvest Table
  • Elimination of Styrofoam products

    In addition to the programs above, PS&E, Levy and Aramark are partnering in increasing recycling collection and sorting efforts throughout Conseco Fieldhouse with the assistance of Republic Services of Indiana. As part of this program, bins have been added to most work areas in Conseco Fieldhouse and patrons at events can participate by placing used plastic or paper items bins located in the concourses and restaurants in the building. The PS&E program is being implemented by volunteers from the staff, including PS&E's Honorary Recycling Captains, Pacers forward Troy Murphy and Fever guard Tully Bevilaqua.

    As PS&E's Honorary Recycling Captains, Murphy and Bevilaqua will assist in placing the recycling bins throughout Conseco Fieldhouse, as well as encourage PS&E staff participation.

    All 30 NBA teams will participate in the first NBA Green week (April 2-10). The Pacers will wear special NBA Green Week shirts during warm-ups for the April 3 game against the San Antonio Spurs. The NBA is hosting a special auction of autographed basketballs, made from recycled materials on NBA.COM through April 16.