2012

RECYCLEMANIA 2012 RESULTS CAN BE VIEWED HERE

Congratulations to St. John's for increasing their recycling rate to an average of 41%!!

St. John’s University Kicks Off its 2012 RecycleMania Recycling Competition

– 12th Annual Tournament Taps Campus Rivalries to Promote Conservation –

St. John’s has successfully kicked off its participation in the 2012 RecycleMania tournament, the national competition in which college campuses compete over eight weeks to see who can reduce, reuse and recycle the most on-campus waste.

In addition to St. John’s, more than 600 schools representing all 50 states, the District of Columbia and five Canadian provinces will compete in nine 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. The competition runs through March 30.

St. John’s is competing in the formal competition, which ranks schools based on standardized weight measurements. 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 2012 tournament features a new electronics category, as well as a promotional video contest at www.youtube.com/recyclemania based on a “Spirit of Recycling” theme.

Every Wednesday at 6pm, with the exception of Spring Break, raffle drawings are held at Montgoris. Where winners receive a $50 AMEX gift card. To be eligible, student must commit to be a ‘Recyclemanic’. For more information and to collect your raffle tickets, see STJ Sustainability Coordinators who are campaigning everyday from 12-3pm at Montgoris.

New to STJ is our O2 Compost system. We have begun to collect food waste from cafeterias around campus and will produce compost to be used on the grounds around school. The O2 System is a very innovative initiative that gives STJ a very unique opportunity to be a leader among universities in composting.  The volumes of garbage and recycle collected are recorded and converted to pounds. The total pounds are submitted each week to RecycleMania and the results can be viewed on our profile page.

A complete list of participants can be found at  recyclemaniacs.org.

For more information about St. John’s RecycleMania program, contact Raelynne Lee. 

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