Queen’s Enters RecycleMania Competition, Develops Online Recycling Tool

Published on: 2013/02/12 - in Featured News

Queen’s University is once again participate in Recyclemania, an international competition that promotes waste reduction on university campuses.

The university’s Sustainability Office is helping to make recycling even easier this year by developing an online tool that helps students, staff and faculty dispose of a variety of materials more responsibly.

“We’re always looking for ways to promote our campus recycling programs and resources,” said Llynwen Osborne, Waste Coordinator at the Sustainability Office. “Recyclemania gives the Sustainability Office a great platform for measuring the success of the university’s recycling programs and encouraging students, staff and faculty to help us to do better.”

The new application enables users to simply enter in the type of waste item they want to discard, and the Recycling Tips look-up tool instructs them on how it should be disposed of.

The Recyclemania competition requires participating universities and colleges to keep track of their waste and recycling data for eight weeks.

That data is then collected and used to determine which school collected the most recyclables, generated the least amount of trash per capita, and has the highest recycling rate.

Queen’s University was ranked 56th in last year’s competition with a diversion rate of 41.37 per cent.

The Sustainability Office will be working together with a group of student volunteers and representatives from the Alma Mater Society, the Society of Graduate and Professional Students, and Main Campus Residents’ Council.

Together the groups will promote Recyclemania through a variety of activities that include a “Get Caught Green-Handed” promotion and “Greenfest” – a showcase of sustainability practices and activities at Queen’s that takes place from March 4th to the 8th.

For more information about Queen’s participation in the tournament, visit its Recyclemania page.

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