For the past three weeks, UGA has been competing in the 12th annual RecycleMania, a competition that promotes waste reduction in campuses across North America. UGA is competing against 604 schools in the U.S. and Canada in five categories. Each category is measured differently, but the main goal of RecycleMania is to reduce the total amount of waste each university produces and to raise awareness about the importance of recycling on campus.
And since the start of RecycleMania, the Office of sustainability and students, faculty and staff at UGA have been doing just that.
Students got “caught green-handed” at the kickoff on Feb. 10, where they posed with Hairy Dawg and made the pledge to reduce, reuse and recycle more on campus.
They stayed up late to street paint in Tate Plaza - a must when spreading the word about an event at UGA!
And last week, Office of Sustainability staff and student volunteers participated in a waste audit on East Campus, where they sorted through 373 pounds of waste material from from the Ramsey Center, the Hugh Hodgson School of Music and The Lamar Dodd School of Art. Out of those 373 pounds, 89 were saved from the landfill and sent to the recycling center. Check out this story from Grady Newsource:
But RecycleMania is far from over - we still have more than a month to go in this eight-week competition! Be sure to check UGA's RecycleMania Facebook page for competition updates. Our next event will be a screening of the film "Bag It" on March 20 at 7 p.m. in the Rooker Hall Fireside Lounge.
And of course, even if you can't make it to the events, you can participate in RecycleMania by recycling paper, cardboard, plastic and glass in bins throughout campus and by cutting back on your usage of un-recyclable material such as Styrofoam. So keep reducing, reusing and recycling, UGA!
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