Recyclemania Residence Hall Results

With the end of the semester there is one more thing to celebrate. Near the end of each spring semester the Office of Residence Life and our residence hall students participate in a competition of sorts, called Recyclemania, to see if we can increase the recycling efforts of our residence hall students.   

This year Recyclemania lasted from the end of January though the end of April. A special thanks to the RAs for their efforts to consistently encourage our residents to recycle. Through these efforts the residence hall students diverted 10,259 lbs, or close to 5 tons that would have otherwise been disposed of by going to a landfill.  Here is the breakdown, by building, of the total weight of recycling collected from the floors and the weight recycled per student.

Building	T. lbs. Collected from Student Floors	lbs. per student recycled
Merick	747	2.95
Laferla	394	1.89
Vandiver	818	3.51
Myers	370	2.94
Henderson Hall	79	1.52
Dearmont	874	3.39
Cheney	272	2.72
Greek	407	0.22
Towers South	940	2.96
Towers East	943	2.88
Towers West	583	2.74
Towers North	1377	5.76

2 Notes:

• The “T. lbs. Collected from Student Floors” was divided by your building occupancy to give the weight recycled per student. 
• Yes, the “T. lbs. Collected from Student Floors” does not equal 10,259 lbs. The 10,259 lbs. includes the Towers Complex, Dearmont Complex, LaFerla Main Lobby, etc, areas that are not tied to a specific community.