Hollywood Park Sustainability Program

About Hollywood Park Sustainability:

Since its inception, sustainability has been at the forefront for Hollywood Park. The global sports and entertainment destination is committed to a sustainable future by lessening its environmental impact through water conservation, waste diversion and energy efficiencies, with a focus on creating programs that serve Greater Los Angeles and benefit the surrounding community. Additionally, SoFi Stadium is just the second NFL venue to achieve third-party certification for ISO 20121:2012 Event Sustainability Management System, a standard designed to address the management of improved sustainability throughout the event management cycle.

Statement:

SoFi Stadium and Hollywood Park are committed to sustainable operations and management practices across its 298 acres and to becoming a leader in environmental, social, and economic responsibility.  The landscape features 16.65 acres of total planting area with over 5,000 trees and plants purposefully selected to promote the regeneration of habitats and encourage the return of native wildlife.  In 2025, SoFi Stadium completed its ISO 20121:2012 Event Sustainability Management System recertification.  The system is a voluntary international standard that specifies requirements, provides guidance, and aims to improve sustainability continually through event management.

Water Conservation:

• Lake Park, a 6-acre lake adjacent to SoFi Stadium and YouTube Theater, functions as a water recycling system by collecting 70-80 percent of stormwater runoff that irrigates the surrounding landscape.
• SoFi Stadium used reclaimed water for over 81% of its water needs in 2025, saving millions of gallons of drinking water.
• Hollywood Park is home to almost 100 percent Southern California native plant species, each purposely selected to be water-conscious.

Waste Diversion:

• Nearly 700 tons of waste were diverted from landfills in 2025 via recycling, composting, use of the onsite ORCA digesters, and food donations.
• SoFi Stadium and YouTube Theater donate their excess prepared foods to recovery agencies like Chefs to End Hunger.  Chefs to End Hunger provides meals to the hungry by redistributing the excess prepared food that would otherwise go to waste. The venues donated over 4,800 meals in 2025.

Energy Conservation:

• SoFi Stadium generated over 93% of its total electricity consumption with renewable energy in 2025 via the purchase of nearly 38,000 renewable energy credits from a Texas-based wind farm.
• A project is underway in the stadium parking lots to replace diesel-powered light towers with solar-powered fixtures. To date, the diesel fleet has been reduced by 25 towers and the poles have been repurposed to enhance the solar lighting project.
• Located less than 3 miles from the beach, Hollywood Park has an ETFE roof canopy that curves designed to allow continuous ocean breezes throughout the venue, naturally cooling the venue.
• The frit pattern on the ETFE roof canopy hinders direct sunlight so the ambient temperature is approximately 4 degrees cooler inside the building than outside.
• Approximately 200 tons of oxygen is produced per year by Hollywood Park’s landscape design.

Public Transportation:

• Over 65,000 people used public transportation for part of their travel to and from the stadium during the 2025-2026 NFL season. (call out the partnerships that make this possible).
• EV charger utilization increased by 43% in 2025 and is up 181% since 2022. Providing charging infrastructure for EVs reduces the greenhouse gas emissions associated with driving and limits air pollution in our community.

Social Sustainability:

• Through their partnership, the Rams and CRC have now constructed three gardens and programming in public schools within proximity of both SoFi Stadium as well as the Rams practice facility in Woodland Hills. The partnership includes investments in community impact efforts such as these garden builds at Woodland Hills Academy in LAUSD and Kelso Elementary School and Woodworth Monroe in Inglewood School District.
• For Earth Month, the Los Angeles Rams and SoFi Stadium partnered with NFL Green on a school garden build at Centinela K-8 in Inglewood, and a clean up of the 2024 school garden build at Woodworth-Monoe K-8 in Inglewood in May. For both events, the Rams and HWP engaged Alma Farms, an urban farm in Compton, that also provides planting instruction and education for the students.
• The 10th annual Taste of the Rams was hosted at SoFi Stadium, which has raised over $1.2 million, helping the Food Bank and its partners to provide essential food and nutrition assistance to our neighbors throughout Los Angeles County.
• Hollywood Park supports Certified Rams House businesses by hosting small business workshops presented by Gallagher and utilizes these businesses for home game catering for staff.
• Hollywood Park Moves, is a free weekly exercise class to help local residents improve their physical and mental health, led by an Inglewood-based fitness instructor.
• Over 100 3rd grade students from Inglewood Unified School District attended a Day of Play event at SoFi Stadium, promoting the importance of physical education and wellness.
• Over 700 students attended the inaugural STEAM Day at SoFi Stadium, in which they participated in engaging lessons, activities, and experiments in the locker room and on the field.
• Food distribution events at the stadium for Thanksgiving and December’s Season of Giving campaign provided over 40,000 meals to community members in need.
• Farm Habits weekly Farmer's Market at Hollywood Park provides local produce, artisanal goods and homemade items for the community.
• Following the devastating fires in Jan. 2025, 12 Los Angeles professional sports teams including the Los Angeles Rams and Los Angeles Chargers (in partnership with the teams’ own foundations) and Hollywood Park joined forces with Fanatics and the Fanatics Foundation to distribute $3 million worth of Fanatics merchandise to Angelenos who have been evacuated from their homes.

*As of January 2025