Lay’s continues to spark joy and help deserving communities “Stay Golden” through its global program Lay’s RePlay, which creates sustainable soccer fields from disposed Lay’s Potato Chip bags to drive positive outcomes for people and the planet.
Lay’s opened the Lay’s RePlay field in Santa Ana, Calif. The U.S. Lay’s RePlay field is made with recycled Lay’s chip bags and packaging materials that are washed, shredded, and converted into an underlying layer that is designed to be recycled at the end of its 10-year lifespan.
According to a study by the UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge, the Hispanic community was one of the hardest impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, both on a health and economic level.
The field, located at Cesar Chavez Campesino Park in Santa Ana was selected by Lay’s and Lay’s RePlay global partners UEFA Foundation for Children and Common Goal for its rich Hispanic heritage with the goal of providing affordable access to soccer programming and education.
The Santa Ana field opens in partnership with the City of Santa Ana and Pure Game, a local non-profit that teaches children life skills through mentorship and sports-based character education.
The new Lay’s RePlay field marks the sixth to open around the world, with others in South Africa, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Italy, and Mexico, which have been utilized over 25,000 times to provide underserved communities with access to the beloved sport and state-of-the-art soccer fields since the program’s launch.
Lay’s RePlay builds on work done by Lay’s and the UEFA Foundation for Children that delivered three artificial soccer fields in the Za’atari and Azraq Refugee Camps in 2017 and 2018 and have since provided 35,000 people access to the sport.