SeaWorld recycles a variety of materials. The list includes items such as; cardboard, all types of office paper, scrap metal, metals drums, food grease, aluminum cans, tires, clean green waste, pre-consumer fruits and vegetables, clear and green plastic water bottles, wood pallets, glass bottles, lead acid batteries, waste motor oil, toner cartridges, sand, rubber mats, scrap wood, loose plastic bags and shrink wrap, fish, donations of food, equipment and clothing, asphalt, concrete and Clydesdale manure.

Committee to waste reduction and recycling efforts, SeaWorld San Diego diverted 1636 tons of trash from city landfills – a 56.2% increase over 1997. Recycling efforts in 1998 resulted in a 41.42% effective recycling rate. If you added demotion recycling numbers into the total park recycling figures (11,695,260), our overall solid waste recycling percentage would actually be 76.39%.

SeaWorld San Diego’s recycling efforts did not go unnoticed for the fifth year in a row. In 1998, SeaWorld received the California Integrated Waste Management Board’s WRAP award. SeaWorld was selected as one of only ten businesses in California for leading commercial efforts to reduce, reuse, and recycle. For the third year in a row and for the fourth time in five years, SeaWorld San Diego was selected as one of the top award recipients in the City of San Diego’s Environmental Services Department’s Waste Reduction and Recycling Awards Program. No City recognition program existed in 1995.