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52 PA Colleges Compete In EPA RecycleMania Competition, Most Of Any State
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More Pennsylvania college and universities are participating in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency RecycleMania nationwide competition than in any other state. Of the 607 colleges participating, 52 are in Pennsylvania.
RecycleMania is already underway as college campuses compete to see who can reduce, reuse and recycle the most on-campus waste from January 17 to March 27.
For a 10-week period, beginning in mid-January and running parallel to the college basketball season, colleges and universities take part in an exciting competition that increases recycling participation by students and staff, and raises awareness about the significance of waste reduction programs on campuses.
The schools will compete in eight categories to see who recycles the most on a per capita basis, who produces the least amount of waste and who recycles the largest percentage of their overall waste stream.
Colleges and universities choose to participate in either the formal competition which ranks them based on standardized weight measurements, or as part of the less formal "Benchmark" division. In both cases, schools submit weight data for paper, cardboard, cans and bottles, food waste and general trash each week, and are in turn able to see how they measure up against each other in the continuously updated results.
The Pennsylvania schools participating include: Allegheny College (Competition Division); Arcadia University (Benchmark Division); Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania (Competition Division); Bucknell University (Competition Division); Bucks County Community College (Competition Division); Carnegie Mellon University (Competition Division); Cedar Crest College (Competition Division); Chatham University (Benchmark Division); Delaware Valley College (Competition Division); Dickinson College (Competition Division); Drexel University (Competition Division); Duquesne University (Benchmark Division); East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania (Competition Division); Elizabethtown College (Competition Division); Franklin and Marshall College (Competition Division); Gannon University (Benchmark Division); Gettysburg College (Competition Division); Haverford College (Competition Division); Immaculata University (Benchmark Division); Indiana University of Pennsylvania-Main Campus (Benchmark Division); Juniata College (Competition Division); Keystone College (Competition Division); La Salle University (Benchmark Division); Lehigh University (Benchmark Division); Lycoming College (Competition Division); Mercyhurst College (Competition Division); Messiah College (Competition Division); Millersville University of Pennsylvania (Competition Division); Montgomery County Community College (Benchmark Division); Moravian College and Moravian Theological Seminary (Benchmark Division); Mount Aloysius College (Benchmark Division); Pennsylvania College of Technology (Competition Division); Rosemont College (Competition Division); Saint Joseph's University (Competition Division); Saint Vincent College (Benchmark Division); Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania (Benchmark Division); Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania (Competition Division); Susquehanna University (Competition Division); Temple University (Competition Division); Thiel College (Competition Division); University of Pennsylvania (Competition Division); University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus (Competition Division); University of Scranton (Competition Division); University of the Sciences in Philadelphia (Benchmark Division); Ursinus College (Competition Division); Villanova University (Competition Division); West Chester University of Pennsylvania (Benchmark Division); Widener University-Harrisburg Campus (Benchmark Division); Widener University-Main Campus (Competition Division); Wilkes University (Competition Division); and Wilson College (Competition Division.
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