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Environmental Statement

While the Tri for a Cure participants swim, bike, and run for pride and a cure for cancer, the Atayne Trash Runners will run for trash and a cleaner environment!  

Atayne will bring their trash running team to run behind the participants on the running segment picking up trash along the way.  In addition, the team will sort waste at the start/finish area.  The goal is to recycle and compost as much waste as possible and leave the racecourse cleaner than the event found it.

Brunswick, ME-based Atayne makes high performing outdoor and athletic clothing from trash (or recycled materials as other might say). 



Click here to learn more about Atayne.

Tri for a Cure would like to do what is within our power to make our event as “green” as possible. At Tri for a Cure you will find the following:

• Recycling bins for returnables, such as plastic bottles, cans and glass bottles
• Recycling bins for other recyclable products like paper, cardboard, metal, etc.
• Designated and clearly marked waste containers for compost material such as banana peels, orange rinds, coffee grounds, etc.
• Tri for a Cure is going COMPLETELY paperless with registration!

You can help make this a “green” event by doing the following:

• Properly using any recycling containers located at the venue
• Bringing water and other drinks in plastic bottles made with recyclable materials (ie. Nalgene)
• Instead of throwing it away, reuse your goody bag as a lunch sack or a grocery bag.
• Local running stores such as Maine Running Company and Nike will take your old running shoes and grind them up for rubber to reuse in new products like basketball courts, among other uses. One online group, One World Running, takes the sneakers you have outgrown and ships them to people in Africa that don’t have shoes.