RecycleMania

 

Once again Bowdoin participated in RecycleMania, a nationwide recycling competition in which we compete for the highest recyclemania logorecycling rate, the most recyclables per person, and the least amount of total waste (trash and recycling) generated on campus. While there are hundreds of colleges and universities across the country that participate in the 10 week event, as a way to inspire serious competition among the Bowdoin Polar Bears we focus on a four week intense campaign against another participating Recyclmania school. This past year the Polar Bears competed against one of their bitter rivals - the Colby Mules. Stay tuned for information on RecycleMania 2010!

What you can do: Tune in to the digest postings during the month of competition for tips on reducing waste and recycling - or come back to this site as the digest tips will also be added to this website. And as always, 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

Check out the downloadable poster on Bowdoin's Single Stream Recycling.

How Recyclemania 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 to the organizing body, the EPA. That poundage is then divided up amongst the total on-campus population of the school. At the end of the 10 weeks, the school with the highest average recycling rate is the winner.

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