From Jan. 22 to March 31, 2012, VCU will compete with colleges and universities throughout North America to see who has the best recycling programs.

What is RecycleMania? RecycleMania is a friendly competition and benchmarking tool for college and university recycling programs to promote waste reduction activities to their campus communities. During a 10-week period, schools report recycling and trash data, which are then ranked according to who collects the largest amount of recyclables per capita, the largest amount of total recyclables, the least amount of trash per capita or have the highest recycling rate. With each week's reports and rankings, participating schools watch how their results fluctuate against other schools and use this to rally their campus communities to reduce and recycle more.

Be a responsible Ram and recycle wherever VCU recycling containers are available. Everyone can make a difference and your participation is key to our success.

Learn more about the competition on the RecycleMania website.

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Starting on Jan. 23 through April 2, 2011, VCU is participating in some tough competition with colleges and universities throughout North America to see who has the best recycling programs.

What is RecycleMania? RecycleMania is a friendly competition and benchmarking tool for college and university recycling programs to promote waste reduction activities to their campus communities. During a 10-week period, schools report recycling and trash data, which are then ranked according to who collects the largest amount of recyclables per capita, the largest amount of total recyclables, the least amount of trash per capita, or have the highest recycling rate. With each week's reports and rankings, participating schools watch how their results fluctuate against other schools and use this to rally their campus communities to reduce and recycle more.

Be a responsible Ram and recycle wherever VCU recycling containers are available. Everyone can make a difference and your participation is key to our success.

Learn more about the competition on the RecycleMania website.

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After 10 weeks of planning, promoting, tracking and measuring, you can call yourself a winner in this year's RecycleMania. In this competition, there are no "losers," since recycling and reducing waste are achievements in themselves. But is the achievement merely the end until next year, or is it a means to a larger sustainable effort that takes place both on and off college campuses?

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From Jan. 17 through March 27, 2010, VCU is looking forward to some tough competition from colleges and universities throughout North America to see who has the best recycling programs.

What is RecycleMania?

RecycleMania is a friendly competition and benchmarking tool for college and university recycling programs to promote waste reduction activities to their campus communities. Over a 10-week period, schools report recycling and trash data, which are then ranked according to who collects the largest amount of recyclables per capita, the largest amount of total recyclables, the least amount of trash per capita, or have the highest recycling rate. With each week's reports and rankings, participating schools watch how their results fluctuate against other schools and use this to rally their campus communities to reduce and recycle more.

Don't throw it away, recycle it and help VCU come out on top for RecycleMania 2010.

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Please check this one out! This is the start of the "Year of the Environment" it begins Thurday afternoon on October 1, 2009 and is a two-day series of events!

E-Festival Home Page
Source: www.has.vcu.edu
3:30-6PM Introducing "E": Transforming relations between commerce & nature. FILM and Panel Discussion: "The Next Industrial Revolution" (featuring William McDonough & Michael Braungart)

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I have some great news to report, we had another record month for Recycling!!!!

The Recycling Rate for July, 09 including C&D recycling was 61.40%
The Recycling Rate for July, 09 without C&D was 46.29%.
*C&D = Construction and Demolition debris

Our average recycling rate for the year so far is 30.50%.

We have been having a very busy summer with numerous recycling clean-outs and Iron
Mountain document destruction pick-ups related to Department moves and the purging of files.

Our ongoing efforts with the VCU Goes Green of making Students, Staff and Faculty aware of the importance of recycling
and their participation is starting to payoff. We are working closely with University Housing, we recently placed new Recycling Posters in all the Residences Halls, provided reusable bags for students and are promoting recycling and other environmental activities on the Recycling Blog and Facebook site.

Our staff deserve a big thanks for all their hard work to keep the VCU Recycling Program moving in positive direction.

We also continue to work with some other area State Agencies. The Department of Forensics Main office in the Biotech 2 Building has asked VCU-Recycling to start picking up their recycling effective 10/1/09. I will charge them a fee to cover our labor costs. We currently service their satellite offices across the street in Biotech 8.

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