Campus Involvement

Campus Involvement
Green Living

RecycleMania

For the third year in a row, Bowdoin participated in RecycleMania, a nationwide recycling competition in which we competed for the highest recyclemania logorecycling rate, the most recyclables per person, and the least amount of total waste (trash and recycling) generated on campus. A series of fun and educational events on campus encouraged faculty, staff and students to pledge to recycle everything they could, learn what items can be recycled and how to do it, and band together to compete for the coveted Recycled Man trophy.  This year Colby, Bates and Bowdoin all competed in the nationwide competition, creating an extra competitive spirit for the event. 

How It Works

RecycleMania is: A friendly 10-week recycling competition among 400 participating colleges and universities across the country. The goal of the contest is to raise awareness about recycling and waste minimization. 

How it's done: Each week, participating schools report the pounds of recyclables collected across campus or from the selected subset of campus to the organizing body, the EPA. That poundage is then divided up amongst the total on-campus population of the school or of the selected subset. At the end of the 10 weeks, the school with the highest average recycling rate is the winner.

What you can do: Carefully recycle everything you can. Use the bins, read the signs, and especially, think twice before throwing anything away. Acceptable recyclables are (the same as those already collected in Bowdoin's Single Stream recycling):

  • Newspaper
  • Books
  • Magazines/Catalogs
  • Mixed Paper
  • Tin/Steel/Aluminum
  • Glass
  • Paperboard
  • Corrugated Cardboard
  • #1 - #7 Plastic

Visit http://www.recyclemaniacs.org for more information and the final results