Friday, May 16, 2014

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.