RecycleMania
Turns Recycling into a Competitive Sport
on Campuses Nationwide!
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After four weeks of RecycleMania,
the competition is growing strong!
Colleges and universities nationwide
are vying to become #1 in a 10-week
competitive campus-recycling program.
From its start in 2001, when Ed
Newman of Ohio University and Stacy
Edmonds Wheeler of Miami University
set out to increase recycling in
residence and dinning halls on their
campuses, RecycleMania has grown
to almost 50 schools! And, in 2004,
RecycleMania collaborated with the
WasteWise program to enhance the
competition and provide technical
assistance, a Web site, and an electronic
reporting system.
Not only have campuses been increasing
their recycling rates, but many
have received a fair amount of press
coverage since the competition started
on January 30. Publications like
campus newspapers, local newspapers,
and even the New York Times have
picked up on the excitement and
significance of this event.
For more information, to check
out the standings (updated weekly),
or to find out if your alma mater
is participating in the competition,
visit the RecycleMania
Web site. 
RecycleMania trophies, awarded
to the two winners of the competition,
pictured to the left.
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Take
a Look Inside:
Improve
Your Internal Waste Prevention and Recycling
Programs
Kitsap County and King County in Washington
are hosting a regional meeting on Thursday,
March 31, 2005 at the King Street
Center in Seattle, Washington.
This meeting will focus on how business
and organizations can improve their internal
programs and will provide information
about EPA's WasteWise program.
Topics and speakers include:
- The Starbucks Experience: Internal
Recycling at its Stores and Offices
(Stacey Long, Starbucks recycling program)
- Electronics Recycling (Craig Lorch,
Total Reclaim)
- Kitsap County's WasteWise Program
(Vicki Bushnell, Kitsap County)
- Buying Environmentally Preferable
Products (Karen Hamilton, King County
Procurement)
- Keys to Successful Internal Waste
Prevention and Recycling Programs (Sam
Wilder, Wilder Environmental Consulting)
- Greening Your Internal Construction
and Renovation Projects (Theresa Koppang,
King County Green Building Program)
- EPA WasteWise Program Resources (Domenic
Calabro, EPA Region 10)
Speakers and discussion will run from
1:00 p.m. until 4:00 p.m., including two
short breaks. From 4:00 p.m. until 4:30
p.m., there will be two optional activities
(choose one only): Tours of King
Street Center,
a nationally acclaimed green building;
and a showing of "Exporting
Harm,"
the landmark video by the Basel Action
Network illustrating problems in the handling
of waste electronics.
Register Now!
There is no registration fee associated
with this meeting, but attendance is limited.
To sign up, please contact Tom
Watson at (206) 296-4481 or
Vicki
Bushnell at (360) 337-4678.
New
Resource Management Tool
The Massachusetts Department of Environmental
Protection has just posted a new
fact sheet titled, "Resource
Management Contracting (RM) at the Lemuel
Shattuck Hospital" which
highlights the first-year recycling successes
of the 2002 RM contracting pilot project.
In a nutshell, the hospital has saved
roughly $11,000 using this new contract.
Please go to the Massachusetts
Department of Environmental Protection's
Resource Management Contracting
Web site for more information.
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