Gillette Stadium is committed to delivering sustainable, world-class sports and entertainment events with the goal of managing and reducing environmental impact. Kraft Sports + Entertainment’s Sustainability Policy focuses on:
In August 2024, Gillette Stadium earned ISO 20121, Sustainable Events Management, certification. This prestigious certification encompasses Gillette Stadium, the Patriots, and the Revolution, making the Revolution the first MLS team to earn ISO 20121 certification.
In March 2024, Gillette Stadium earned LEED Gold certification per the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Operations and Maintenance: Existing Buildings (v4.1) criteria.
Gillette Stadium has been selected as a winner of Front Office Sports 2024 Most Sustainable award powered by Sports Innovation Labs.
Through this inaugural Most Sustainable award by Front Office Sports (FOS), ten winners – ranging from venues and teams, to leagues and brands – were selected.
In June 2025, at the annual Green Sports Alliance (GSA) Summit in Miami, Gillette Stadium received recognition as this year’s award recipient of the Innovation: Environmental Stewardship award.
Per GSA, “the Innovation Awards recognize sports organizations and collaborators who demonstrate leadership and excellence in environmental and social impact in the world of sports. Awardees drive sustainability-related initiatives across their organizations and operations, implementing projects that are not only intended to reduce environmental impact but also encourage fans, athletes, and community stakeholders to do the same.”
Green Sports Day at Gillette Stadium
Often referred to as ‘Earth Day of the Fall,’ Green Sports Day is celebrated annually on October 6. At the back-to-back Revolution and Patriots home games during the last weekend of September in 2025, Gillette Stadium tabled in Fan Zone pregame to spread the word about Green Sports Day to soccer and football fans as they made their way from the parking lots into the stadium.
The activation in Fan Zone included sustainability trivia and giveaways. Additionally, Gillette Stadium, The Lighthouse, and the solar canopy at neighboring Patriot Place were lit green to celebrate #GreenSportsDay.
Green Sports Alliance Symposium
On November 5, 2025, Gillette Stadium hosted its first Green Sports Alliance Symposium, focused on the Green Sports Alliance’s sustainability strategy and revenue generation playbooks. Over 150 professionals from teams, leagues, and venues from across the country convened at Gillette Stadium for an immersive day that included panels, breakout sessions, an in-depth sustainability tour, and more. To read about Gillette Stadium in the GSA Strategy playbook, click here.
Green Sports Alliance Foundation
In Fall 2025, Gillette Stadium partnered with Green Sports Alliance Foundation and Project Green Schools to host 80+ Massachusetts high school students for a Sports & Sustainability Career Day at Gillette Stadium, focused on exploring STEM, STEAM, trades, innovation, sports & sustainability career pathways. Students heard from state representatives and Gillette Stadium team members, enjoyed a tour, and worked on projects to take back to their schools. Gillette Stadium received a citation from the governor in recognition of our first annual sports and sustainability career day.
WIN Waste Recycling in Club Lots Pilot
At 2024 home games surrounding National Recycling Day, Gillette Stadium piloted recycling in the club parking lots. Sponsored by WIN Waste Innovations, staff prepared bundles of flyers and blue recycle bags to hand out to fans as they entered the club parking lots.
Fans were asked to put their bottles and cans from the pregame tailgate in the provided blue recycling bags and, before heading into the stadium, to leave the blue bags near the red trash barrels for pickup.
Hellmann’s Food Rescue at Patriots Game
Hellmann’s Mayonnaise, in partnership with Food Recovery Network and Gillette Stadium, sponsored a food rescue program at the Patriots home game on December 1, 2024. Leftover prepared foods – including sandwiches, salads, fruit, pasta, and desserts – were collected from key premium spaces pre- and postgame.
Food Recovery Network, members of Brown University’s Food Recovery Network chapter, and Gillette Stadium staff worked together to package and label the rescued food. Totaling over 500 pounds, the rescued food was donated to ELISHA Project in Providence, Rhode Island.
Increasing access to public and low-carbon transportation options helps reduce local impact from event traffic including air and noise pollution.
Gillette Stadium and Patriot Place have over 65 EV chargers throughout their parking lots. To view the charging station locations, please see the map.
To alleviate vehicle congestion and curb the resulting idling and gas emissions, Gillette Stadium has implemented various parking enhancements, such as the Be Paid to Park program, to streamline the process of cars entering and existing parking lots for Patriots games. To learn more, please visit Patriots Parking Options.
To allow visitors the opportunity to take alternative transportation and carpool, with the goal of reducing emissions from fan travel on event day, Gillette Stadium has designated drop-off and pick-up locations. To learn more, please visit Getting to Gillette Stadium.
Gillette Stadium is proud to partner with the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) train station to encourage the use of public transportation to local commuters and fans traveling from Boston and Providence. Commuters from Foxborough can park at Foxboro Station in designated Lot 4C, featuring 500-plus parking spaces along with 24-hour onsite security.
Since its opening, commuters have expressed their appreciation for the station, especially the abundance of free parking. The full schedule is available here.
The MBTA Commuter Rail and Keolis provide round-trip, special event trains from Boston and Providence to Gillette Stadium for Patriots home games and other select events. During the 2025 season, the special event train service brought over 40,000 fans to Gillette Stadium. For more details, check out Foxborough Event Service.
Gillette Stadium reduces operational waste generated through events through a variety of measures including waste sorting, food donations and compost bins. You can help this mission by placing your bottles and cans in the labeled recycle bins at the gates and throughout the stadium.
Gillette Stadium diverts organic food waste from landfills in two main ways. Organic waste is collected and deposited into the Grind2Energy sink where the food is ground and put into a holding tank. The resulting slurry is sent to a local farm that has an anaerobic digester. The food slurry is recycled by recovering water and converting captured methane into renewable energy. The remaining nutrient-rich material is used as a beneficial natural fertilizer to grow more food. In 2025, the food scrap slurry from Gillette Stadium was used to generate over 20,000 kWh of additional electrical power and 6.5 tons of fertilizer.
Gillette Stadium also utilizes compost bins to divert food scraps from concession stands and other areas around campus. These food scraps are brought to a composting facility and eventually turned into nutrient-rich compost to be used throughout the New England community.
In partnership with WIN Waste Innovations, WIN Waste collects and processes the trash and recyclables generated at Gillette Stadium, recycling products when possible and converting the solid waste to renewable energy.
Gillette Stadium partners with local organizations to donate as much recoverable food that has prepared for events and would otherwise go to the food grinder or to compost. Donated foods include bread, vegetables, sandwiches, wraps, fruit and desserts. In 2025, Gillette Stadium donated over 30,000 pounds of food, equivalent to 24,000+ meals, to local organizations.
Gillette Stadium seeks input from local communities – spanning from Foxborough to New England – and fosters a commitment to being a responsible community partner. Gillette Stadium run sustainability tables before various events to engage with fans and aligns with the missions of the New England Patriots and the New England Revolution charities to participate in community initiatives like the MLS Works Greener Goals Weeks of Service and NFL Green. One 2025 community event highlight was working with Keep Massachusetts Beautiful to clean up around Glue Factory Pond in Foxborough.
Gillette Stadium is dedicated to conducting operations with consideration for climate impacts, resource consumption and ecosystem management.
Gillette Stadium has reduced its energy usage through capital planning projects including installing high efficiency chillers (2014), LED sports lights (2019), a cogeneration plant (2019), and energy fuel cells (2019).
Gillette Stadium participates in Demand Response programs which result in cleaner, more affordable electricity throughout New England by helping reduce the need for expensive, fossil-fuel dependent infrastructure to supply electricity when demand is high. Participation in these programs provides valuable standby capacity to prevent blackouts and other disturbances that may be caused by the grid when encountering emergency conditions.
Gillette Stadium leverages renewable energy credits (RECs) to cover all the energy that Gillette Stadium does not get from the on-site cogeneration units and fuel cells, ensuring that the electricity used for events, including Patriots and Revolution home games, is attributed to clean energy sources. All events since 2019 have been powered by clean energy through renewable energy credits (RECs).
Opening in 2002, Gillette Stadium’s on-site wastewater reuse system is a closed-loop system that serves restroom and non-potable water services to Clubs, Suites and concourse levels, as well as retail partners at the adjacent Patriot Place development. The reuse treatment facility system includes 1M gallons of tank volume to capture the wastewater flows, force mains (a 250,000 gallons per day membrane bioreactor (MBR) treatment plant that generates water suitable for reuse), and a 500,000-gallon elevated storage tank for reclaimed water use.
Energy fuel cells
LED sports lights at a Revolution match
Gillette Stadium’s on-site water reuse facility
Gillette Stadium is dedicated to making responsible program and project decisions by taking into consideration environmental, social, and economic impacts and to setting an example for the sports and entertainment industry about how to support events through sustainable venue development.
Gillette Stadium is committed to educating team members on sustainability policies and engaging with staff to participate in sustainable efforts and initiatives. Representatives from various departments across the campus meet regularly as the Green Team and staff is encouraged to participate in all sustainability initiatives, from planting trees in support of urban forestry projects to local community cleanups.
