Recyclemania

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Recyclemania

• Promoting Waste Reduction and Recycling on
  College Campuses

California Resource Recovery Association Californi
a Collegiate Recycling Council Burlingame, CA
August 6, 2008
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Recycle Who?
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Overview

• National collegiate recycling competition
• Project of NRC and US EPA Waste Wise
• Weight-based ranking system
• Online reporting system
• Runs 10 weeks, late January early April
• Schools choose to participate in any of 8
  categories
• -Overall diversion rate
• -Total per capita recycling
• -Total overall recycling
• -Lowest overall waste generation
• -Targeted materials on per capita basis

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Participating Schools
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Doubling Participation
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Goals of Recyclemania

• Have a fair and friendly recycling competition.
• Increase recycling participation by students and
  staff.
• Heighten awareness of schools' waste management
  and recycling programs.
• Expand economic opportunities while addressing
  environmental issues in a positive way.
• Lower waste generated on-campus by reducing,
  reusing and recycling.
• Organize this event successfully so it can be
  repeated and possibly expanded to other campuses
  in the future.

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Propose Changes This Year

• Competition Trials Period
• Reorganized Division System
• Competitive Division
• Benchmark Division
• Tracking and Reporting Standards

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Why Participant?

• Harness competitive spirit to reach
  non-environmental audiences
• Framework for organizing campus education efforts
• Benchmark own recycling program against other
  schools
• Increase community awareness of waste reduction
  efforts
• Flexible to schools needs
• Organizing point for CA collegiate recycling
  efforts
• Winners recognized nationally
• Increase recycling and conserve natural
  resources!

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Other Benefits

• Baseline data
• Increase visibility/awareness
• Locally and beyond
• Builds bridges with others networking
• On campus
• Off campus
• Increase recycling main goal
• Learning about campus

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• g. Participate in the Waste Minimization
  component of the national RecycleMania
  competition, and adopt 3 or more associated
  measures to reduce waste.

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Website
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Website
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Resources

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

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Resources
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MySpace
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School Promotions

• Dorm competitions
• Trash Recycling tabling displays
• Fairs, dances, live bands, pizza parties
• MySpace, Facebook
• Media outreach newspaper stories, websites,
  radio PSAs, banners, meeting groups, flyers,
  posters

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Stanford
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Email
By recycling, you help to    create jobs   
spur investment from the private sector   
promote economic growth and    support
innovation. All that, just by Recycling.

• How can I
• save energy
• reduce pollution
• help prevent global warming
• reduce waste
• and
• still get my work done at Stanford?
•  Recycle! 

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More Emails

• Im busy.
• Yes, but
• We need you to recycle.
• What now?
• Your plastic bottles.
• Okay.
• Which ones?
• Look for a number 1 through 7
• Inside a recycling symbol
• On the bottom.
• Need help?
• Contact us.

Lots of times useful things from Stanford end up
in the trash.   Can we give them a second
chance?   Reuse. Its waste prevention.
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Tips for Competing

• Bring in your rival to focus on as the one to
  beat
• Start preparing early
• Register your school
• Use RecycleMania and WasteWise resources
• Recyclemaniacs.org
• See what other schools are doing dont be
  bashful
• Identify who on your campus can help

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The Main Thing Is.

• Level of effort you put in is up to you
• Make it work for you
• Have fun
• Compete with who you want to compete with
• Focus on PA Schools, Conference, Rival, Peer
  School
• Establish simple goals

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Climate Impacts

• The 58.6 million pounds of material recycled
  during RecycleMania 2008 prevented greenhouse gas
  emissions of 25,342 metric tons of carbon
  equivalent (MTCE) from entering the atmosphere.
  This equates to a reduction in greenhouse gas
  emissions that is approximately equivalent to
• 15,439 passenger cars not driven for one year
• 9,568,241 gallons of gasoline
• 196,038 barrels of oil
• 11,165 household electricity use for one year
  (number of households)
• 588 acres of forest preserved from deforestation
  
• 2,161,441 tree seedlings grown for 10 years

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Results

• Come Play With Me!
• Stanford won the Gorilla Prize in 2008

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You Recycle, We Win!
For game strategies and technique email or call
Julie Muir PSSI/Stanford Recycling Juliem_at_pssi.st
anford.edu 650-321-4236