RecycleMania 2009 Begins January 18 At Colleges, Universities, Register Now!

RecycleMania invites colleges and universities to register now for its 2009 competition sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

 

Registrations are due January 15

 

RecycleMania is a friendly competition and benchmarking tool for college and university recycling programs to promote waste reduction activities to their campus communities.

 

From January 18 to March 28, schools report recycling and trash data, which is then ranked according to who and reported the largest amount of recyclables per capita, the largest amount of total recyclables, or the least amount of trash per capita, and who had the highest rate of recycling.

 

With each week’s reports and rankings, participating schools watch how their results fluctuate against other schools and use this to rally their campus communities to reduce and recycle more.

Pennsylvania schools participating so far this year include: Allegheny College,Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania,Bucknell University,Bucks County Community College,Carnegie Mellon University,Chatham University,Cheyney University of Pennsylvania,Delaware Valley College,Dickinson College,Elizabethtown College,Franklin and Marshall College,Geneva College,Gettysburg College,Haverford College,Immaculata University,Indiana University of Pennsylvania-Main Campus,Keystone College,Lafayette College,Lycoming College,Mercyhurst College,Messiah College,Millersville University of Pennsylvania,Montgomery County Community College,Mount Aloysius College,Pennsylvania College of Technology,Rosemont College,Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania,Susquehanna University, University of Pennsylvania,University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus,University of Scranton andWilson College.

For more information, visit the RecycleMania website.