{"id":10784,"date":"2012-02-27T12:39:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T16:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=10784"},"modified":"2013-02-08T10:36:10","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T14:36:10","slug":"wright-state-competing-in-recyclemania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2012\/02\/27\/wright-state-competing-in-recyclemania\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright State giving strong effort in RecycleMania competition"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wright State student Dan Baker is pitching in for RecycleMania. Are you?<\/p><\/div>\n

Four weeks into the national competition, Wright State University is 4th out of 252 universities recycling at a rate of 44.12%<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are certainly doing better than last year, but we need to kick it into high gear,\u201d said Wright State Custodial Service Manager and RecycleMania Coordinator Gina Reese.<\/p>\n

Reese says it\u2019s time for staff to pitch in by throwing out heavy recyclables from their workspaces.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are encouraging offices to submit a request for a recycle tote to dispose of old files, records, magazines and catalogs,\u201d said Reese. \u201cWe need everyone\u2019s help and support to remain competitive in this competition.\u201d<\/p>\n

Visit http:\/\/recyclemaniacs.org\/scoreboard\/participating-schools?node_id=10385<\/a> to follow Wright State\u2019s progress in the 2012 RecycleMania.<\/p>\n

Last year Wright State recycled about 16,700 pounds per week of paper, glass, aluminum and plastic\u2014approximately the same weight as eight Volkswagen Beetles.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a lot of recycling weight, and it was good enough for 123rd out of 630 participants in the 2011 RecycleMania tournament, a national competition between hundreds of universities and colleges across the country.<\/p>\n

RecycleMania is a friendly competition and benchmarking tool for college and university recycling programs to promote waste reduction activities to their campus communities.<\/p>\n

Over a 10-week period, schools report recycling and trash data, which are then ranked according to who collects the largest amount of recyclables per capita the largest amount of total recyclables, the least amount of trash per capita, or have the highest recycling rate. The competition kicked into high gear this week and runs through March 31.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything can be recycled with the exception of anything that\u2019s been contaminated with food waste and plastics that are not bottles,\u201d said Reese.<\/p>\n

Wright State has participated in the contest since 2006 and steadily improved its poundage through the years, but Reese says now\u2019s the time to get serious about recycling.<\/p>\n

\u201cStudents, faculty and staff, they just need to recycle everything they can,\u201d said Reese.<\/p>\n

Whether it\u2019s RecycleMania season or not, Reese said we can all do better at sorting our recyclables. She said her custodial staff is already doing it one staffer at a time as they clean receptacles across campus.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know that we are improving, and I\u2019m thrilled with that, but compared to some schools in California that are really committed and recycling at 70%, we can always get better,\u201d said Reese.<\/p>\n

Currently Wright State recycles at a rate of about 32%.<\/p>\n

Recyclables are collected from main campus, off-campus locations and the residence halls every day. Greater participation from faculty and staff in Wright State offices might make the biggest difference of all.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you stop and think about it, everything coming out of that office can be recycled\u2014except maybe your lunch,\u201d said Reese.<\/p>\n

According to Reese, there\u2019s a considerable monetary incentive to improve recycling too. She said campus recycling efforts saved the university $14,000 in landfill fees in 2011 and the cardboard recycling specifically was sold for another $14,000 last year.<\/p>\n

Whether you do it to help the university save money, win RecycleMania or just for Mother Earth, Reese said there\u2019s never been a more important time than now to fill up those green cardboard Rumpke recycling boxes across campus.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to save our environment. If we don\u2019t recycle and we send everything to our landfill, just imagine what our world is going to look like for our grandchildren, their grandchildren and beyond that,\u201d said Reese. \u201cOne massive mess.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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