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Ed Newman, Recycling and Refuse Manager
IRC 2010 Annual Conference
Indianapolis, Indiana
May 5, 2010
RECYCLEMANIA Inter-collegiate recycling competition
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What got the competition
started?
• Residence hall trash —70% of campus total
• 8000 of 21,000 students live on campus
Difficult to get student’s attention
Half are new residents each year
– Beer
– Social Life
– School
– Personal SWM habits
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―Perfect Storm‖ leading to compete
• OU/Miami sports rivals/benchmark/state schools
• Both noted pro-active recycling leaders in Ohio
• Both determined about 70% of Campus Trash came
from Residence Halls.
• OU likes to taunt Miami!
Pre-College
Orientation
Move-in
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How to move recycling up the priority scale?
How to get it to be second nature?
We met and developed RecycleMania
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Goals
• Fair and friendly competition
• Increase recycling
• Have a successful competition
Results
• Interest soared at both schools
• Ohio — Administration all
over it
• Miami — Had more support
from students
• Baseline data for auxiliary
parts of campus
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Participation Growth
2001: 2 schools
2002: 4 schools
2003: 8 schools
2004: 17 schools
2005: 43 schools
2006: 93 schools
2007: 201 schools
2008: 400 schools
2009: 510 schools
2010: 607 schools, 49
States, Can. & Qatar
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Total wt. in 10 wks. 2001 534,710 lbs 268 tons
Total wt. in 10 wks. 2010 84,000,000 lbs 29,300 tons
Students involved 2001 14,550
Students involved 2010 >5,000,000
Total faculty/staff 2010 ~1,300,000
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8 Competitions to choose from
now1. Per Capita Classic – lbs per person
2. Waste Minimization Rate – Overall Waste
Generation
3. Grand Champion – Highest Recycling Rate
4. Gorilla Prize – Most Recycled
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Per Capita Targeted Material
Competitions
5. Food Service Organic
Waste
6. Bottles and Cans
7. Cardboard
8. Mixed Paper
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Goals of Recyclemania
• Have a fair and friendly recycling competition.
• Heighten awareness of schools' waste management and recycling programs.
• Lower waste generated on-campus by reducing, reusing and recycling.
• Provide a catalyst for colleges to build and expand waste reduction programs on campus.
• Build administrative support for recycling on campus.
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Some Positive Outcomes
• Princeton, Pierce and Kaplan School Raters ask if school participated in RecycleMania
• NCAA negotiations for collaborating
• US EPA and Retrac
• Corporate sponsors
• American College and Universities Presidents Climate Commitment
• Linking up with AASHE
• Closely linked with CURC
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Resources
• Technical support hotline
• Archive of sample promotional materials
• Promotional strategies
• Sample case studies
• MySpace & Facebook networking site
• Professionally designed outreach
materials• http://listserv.brown.edu/?SUBED1=RECYC-L&A=1
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www.recyclemaniacs.org
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Target your competition
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Sponsors & Partners
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Indiana Schools Competing in
2010
Butler University (Competition Division)
DePauw University (Benchmark Division)
Grace College and Theological Seminary (Benchmark
Division)
Indiana State University (Benchmark Division)
Indiana University-Bloomington (Competition Division)
Marian University (Benchmark Division)
Purdue University-Calumet Campus (Benchmark
Division)
Purdue University-Main Campus (Competition Division)
University of Notre Dame (Competition Division)
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Please Steal our Stuff
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Graffiti Wall 2003
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Various images used
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Trophies and more posters
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Posters and Trash Outfit
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Dumpster Dive Project
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Loyola University Chicago
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Point Loma Nazarene University
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Connecticut College
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Keene State College
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Dumpsters/Recycling Areas and
Apparel as points of
Communication
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Residence Challenge
• Post-it notes for RA’s and
RD’s
• $200 for 650 pads
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Santa Clara University
Dorm Storm
Raffle Night
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Residence Challenge – Dining Hall
Theme
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Other ideas we’ve tried
• Scoreboards
• Bulletin Boards
• Inter-campus letters to the editor
• Get your school president involved
• Art Car
• Chalk – Sidewalks/Classrms.
• Bathroom Stalls and Mirrors
• Departmental Newsletters
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Art Van
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Find unique spots to communicate
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Half-time RecycleMania Rally
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Adopt-a-Games
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Dining Hall Theme Night
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Trash Dance Posters
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Some Trash Dance Apparel
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Marty and Stewie Night-
RecycleMania Theme
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A Replicable Model• Ohio Recycling Challenge
– Grade Schools-2009
– Businesses-2010
– Communities-2010
• Game Day Challenge-2009
• Greek RecycleMania-2010
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Inter-State Competition?
• Pennsylvania Grade Schools
Competing
• California developing recycling
competition
• Louisiana and other state(s) interested
too.
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Can you compete?
In the end everybody WINS!
Alec Cooley
RecycleMania Program Manager
(843) 278 7686
http://recyclemaniacs