R4 Recycling

RecycleMania 2005

Recycle Mania is a friendly competition amongst nearly 100 participating colleges in the United States that provides students with a fun, proactive activity in waste reduction. This is UC Davis' second year participating in this exciting event. Each participating colleges have ten weeks to collect the most recycling within the resident halls. Recycling will be measured weight per resident. The winner of this competition will receive the Recycle Mania trophy and an appearance in campus newspapers in participating colleges.

For More In Depth Information: Please Visit the Recycle Mania web site.

UC Davis won 9th place out of 93 schools in the US. Congratulations UCD!

  Per Capita Classic: 13th place, 40.55 lbs. recyclables/person
  Waste Minimization: 26th place, 116.47 lbs. waste/person
  Paper: 24th place, 10.81 lbs./person
  Cardboard: 3rd place, 28.58 lbs./person
  Bottles and Cans: 11th place, 7.05 lbs./person
  Food Service Organics: 9th place, 6.87 lbs./person

Detailed results: click here

Here are a list of items acceptable for recycling:

Newspaper

White / Color Paper

Magazines/ Catalogues

Paperboards (Cereal Boxes, etc.)

Fed Ex Cardboard

Beverage Cartons, etc.

Clear and Brown Glass Bottles-No Green

Empty plastic bottles

Beverage and Tin cans

Books/ Phone Books

Participating colleges this year include:

American University
Amherst College
Arizona State University
Binghamton University
Boston College
Bowling Green State University
Brigham Young University
Brown University
California State University San Marcos
Carnegie Mellon
Clark University
Colorado State University
Dartmouth College
Dickinson College
Grinnell College

Hamilton College
Hampshire College
Harvard University
Ithaca College
Kalamazoo College
Keene State College
Miami University
MIT
Morehead State University
Mount Holyoke College
Northwest Missouri State University
Ohio University
Oregon State University
Saint Xavier University
Smith College
Southwest Missouri State University
The Ohio State University
Tufts University

University of Arizona
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Davis
University of Colorado at Boulder
University of Massachusetts Amherst
University of Minnesota
University of Missouri-Columbia
University of Oregon
University of Vermont
Utah State University
Villanova University
Washington State University
Washington University
Western Michigan University
Yale University
Youngstown State University