The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is inviting colleges and university to be part of a friendly competition to see which campuses can recycle the most between January 29 and April 8, 2006.

The RecycleMania competition will see which institutions can collect the largest amount of recyclables, the least amount of trash and have the highest recycling rates.

So far in Pennsylvania, Allegheny College, Bucknell University, and Dickinson College have become part of the competition.

In 2005, Miami University won the competition with a 40+ percent recycling rate. Carnegie Mellon University came in 8^th place and Dickinson College in 12^th place out of 45 participating schools.

To sign up, learn the rules and see who else is competiting, visit the RecycleMania webpage.

11/18/2005