Reduce. Reuse. RecycleMania 2009

Events Recycling Incentives Results Go Green

Otterbein College is participating in the national recycling competition, RecycleMania, January 18-March 28.

What Is RecycleMania?
It's a friendly competition and benchmarking tool for college and university recycling programs to promote waste reduction/recycling activities on campus. Each week Otterbein will report its recycling and trash data and will then be ranked according to:

• the largest amount of recyclables per capita,
• the largest amount of total recyclables,
• the least amount of trash per capita, and
• the highest recycling rate.

The RecycleMania Competition is a project of the College and University Recycling Council (CURC). To learn more about RecycleMania, go to www.recyclemaniacs.org.

Check out Otterbein's Ohio competition (highlighted institutions are OAC rivals):

• Case Western Reserve University (Competition Division)
• Cleveland Institute of Art (Benchmark Division)
• Kent State University-Stark Campus (Benchmark Division)
• Marietta College (Benchmark Division)
• Miami University-Oxford (Competition Division)
• Mount Union College (Benchmark Division)
• Northwest State Community College (Competition Division)
• Ohio State University-Main Campus (Competition Division)
• Ohio University-Main Campus (Competition Division)
• Ohio Wesleyan University (Competition Division)
• Wilmington College (Competition Division)
• Wright State University-Main Campus (Competition Division)
• Xavier University (Benchmark Division)
• Youngstown State University (Competition Division)

History of RecycleMania
The RecycleMania competition began in the spring of 2001 as a friendly challenge between recycling coordinators at Ohio University and Miami University of Ohio. From the outset, the competition was meant as a way to get students and staff more excited about participating in recycling efforts.

That first year, Miami University won, collecting 41.2 lbs. of recyclables for each person on campus. The following year Miami and Ohio were joined by two more schools, Bowling Green State University and Harvard University, with Bowling Green winning the title with 48 lbs. per capita. Since then the competition has continued to grow in popularity, doubling the number of schools involved each year.

Contact Information
For more information about Otterbein's RecycleMania team, contact Jenny Hill at 614-823-1284 or jhill@otterbein.edu.