The 11th College Campus Recycling Competition 

Recyclemania is a friendly competition and benchmarking tool for college and university recycling programs to promote waste reduction activities to their campus communities. The program is a project of the College and University Recycling Council (CURC), managed by Keep America Beautiful in conjunction with EPA WasteWise.

The competition runs from January through March. Over the 10-week period, schools report recycling and trash data which are then ranked in each of four different categories. With each week's reports and rankings, participating schools watch how their results fluctuate against other schools and use this to rally their campuses to reduce and recycle more.

According to Recyclemania in 2011 7.5 million students & staff in 630 Colleges & Universities participated recovering 91 million pounds of material that would have gine to a landfill or landed on streets an in rivers.

The 2011  Recyclemania Event reported the following results:

Together, participating colleges and universities recycled or composted 91 million pounds of material during the 2011 competition.

Award winners were:

• Grand Champion Prize: Cal State San Marcos, for the 6th straight year, recycled 79 percent of all their waste.

• Per Capita Classic: Union College in Schenectady, New York where more than 55 pounds of recyclables per person were collected during the competition.

• Waste Minimization Prize: North Lake College in Irving, Texas, where each person generated an average of only 3.07 pounds of total waste during the competition.

• Gorilla Prize: Rutgers University, who recycled a total of 3,057,867 pounds of material.

At Planetpals, we encourage all colleges to join in! Perhaps it's time for all schools everywhere to follow suit and start a program of their own!

I'd say "May the best school win", but, I think all the schools are winners for participating.

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Along with this great event, came a slew of creative and colorful posters nationwide present and past:

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