TOURISM, ARTS & CULTURE OVERVIEW
Perspective: Sustainability and sports
Moshe Grant Co-Founder & COO – Elite Turf USA Every year in the United States alone, between 700 to 1,000 soccer fields are being built. Every field is about 80,000 square feet and uses traditional, non-recyclable synthetic turf. Eight to 10 years later, those fields are resurfaced. The vast majority of the used turf ends up being buried in landfills all over the nation, which is a huge sustainability concern. After much time and resources spent thinking about an outside-the-box product, we came up with a system that is 100 percent recyclable and uses absolutely zero rubber in it. We use woven turf that does not have urethan in its backing, which is completely recyclable at the end of its life span and allows us to eliminate the recyclability concern.
$162 million in 2019. In 2020, as in previous years, a large contingent of New Jersey’s visitors — about 20% — came to Atlantic County, followed by Cape May County with just under 10%. In Atlantic City’s casino hotels, the occupancy rate for the three months ended March 2021 was 52.4%, which is 15.7 percentage points lower than the comparable period last year but also higher than the national hotel average. There is some optimism across the hotel industry based around major events scheduled for 2021. The Fourth of July weekend got the ball rolling and prices are already shooting up for holiday rentals. A hotel room near the beach in Cape May last June was charged at around $300 per night, while this year rates were at
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