During his time competing with Team Canada since 2012, Oliver Scholfield has traveled all around the world and came to realize the astronomical amount of waste produced, specifically bottled water, at each sporting event. Determined to find a solution, Oliver started volunteering with Racing to Zero, a nonprofit born out of a desire for the sports sector to do its fair share in the world’s climate comeback story. From sport-based emissions to the amount of waste produced at various sporting events, Racing to Zero identified an outage of action at the community grassroots level and has stepped in to help local organizers produce more environmentally friendly events. Oliver has played a pivotal role in the organization by advocating for the cause, educating the public, providing support at events and calculating waste amounts.

The P&G 2024 Athletes For Good grant will allow Racing to Zero to hire more staff to collect and record data, invest in new data collecting technology, hire professional services to rebrand their website, social media, etc., and offset operating costs.