Overview

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Overview

• National collegiate recycling competition
• Ten weeks in spring
• Eight categories
• Weight-based ranking system
• Online reporting system
• Promotional framework
• Project of NRC CURC
• Supported by Coca Cola EPA WasteWise

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Goals of RecycleMania

• Fair and friendly competition
• Increase awareness of waste reduction programs
• Reduce overall waste generation on-campus
• Be catalyst for schools to establish recycling
  programs
• Encourage tracking standards benchmarking

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Resources

• Listserv for coordinators
• Technical support hotline
• Promotional strategies
• Sample case studies
• MySpace networking site
• Professionally designed
• outreach materials
• Archive of sample
• promotional materials

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2009 Changes

• Begin week earlier
• Two weeks of trials
• New division system
• Competition Division
• Benchmark Division
• Tracking reporting standards

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2009 Changes

• Expanded profile page
• -Additional result formats
• -Personalize w/ school logo
• and blog space
• New poster image

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2008 Winners

• Whole Campus Division
• Grand Champion Kalamazoo College
• Per Capita Classic Kalamazoo College
• Waste Minimization North Lake College
• Gorilla Prize Stanford University
• Paper Stephens College
• Cardboard US Coast Guard Academy
• Bottles Cans Rhode Island School of Design
• Food Service Organics Mills College

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2008 Winners

• Partial Campus Division
• Grand Champion Cal State, San Marcos
• Per Capita Classic Cal State, San Marcos
• Waste Minimization Northwest State
  Community College
• Gorilla Prize Rutgers University
• Paper Cal State, San Marcos
• Cardboard Cal State, San Marcos
• Bottles Cans Oregon State University
• Food Service Organics Rutgers University