2019 RecycleMania Case Study Winners
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2019 Case Study Winner in the Education and Awareness Category - Towson's inaugural Fix It Fair’s focus was to encourage students to be mindful consumers in a throwaway society—to fix more and waste less.
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2019 Case Study Winner in the Waste Minimization Category - A student-driven paper towel composting program for campus residence halls to improve waste diversion and create life-long sustainable knowledge and habits for students.
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2019 Case Study Winner in the Food Waste Reduction Category - Repurposing food waste to address food insecurity with the three-fold focus of promoting sustainability, social justice, and health in our community.
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2019 Case Study Honorable Mention in the Education and Awareness Category - Educational outreach campaign and recycling bin reorganization. Omitted the 2018 pre-RecycleMania custodial training and added a Recycling Audit to further understand diversion rates.
Waste Minimization Case Studies
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2019 - Using weekly themes and events, we used the RecycleMania competition as a platform to educate the campus community about waste minimization and landfill diversion opportunities.
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2019 - How are campus community members contributing to the usage of recyclable materials and how we save and re-utilize those materials.
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2019 - Determining recycling habits while trashcans are available in classrooms versus recycling habits while trashcans are not available in classrooms.
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2019 - A student-driven paper towel composting program for campus residence halls to improve waste diversion and create life-long sustainable knowledge and habits for students.
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2019 - Would the recycling rates inside Heide Lecture Hall be improved if the small classroom trash and recycling bins were replaced with larger recycling infrastructure located in the hallways?
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2018 - Studying the recycling habits of RVCC employees, and subsequently providing new recycling bins, signs, and dumpsters.
Food Waste Reduction Case Studies
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2019 - Bridgewater College’s efforts towards food waste reduction.
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2019 - Reporting Cal Maritime’s waste management program on converting used kitchen cooking oil to biodiesel fuel.
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2019 - Repurposing food waste to address food insecurity with the three-fold focus of promoting sustainability, social justice, and health in our community.
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2019 - Measuring the impact of different education strategies on the level of contamination found in organic, post-consumer waste collected in a traditional, “cafeteria style” dining facility.
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2018 - Physical Facilities (PFOC) partnered with Aramark to reduce waste associated with meal preparation and to capture and divert post-consumer food scraps from the landfill.
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2018 - Reducing food waste on University at Albany Uptown College campus.
Education and Awareness Case Studies
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2019 - Teaching students to recycle properly while also demonstrating how to put on a carnival without creating any waste, and giving out reusable prizes
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2019 - Spreading awareness of items sold on campus that seem recyclable but are not, and give an example as to how they can be repurposed.
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2019 - Teaching students that water provided on campus from the tap and the filter are safe and tasty to drink. They do not need to use single use water bottles.
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2019 - CSU Northridge's goal is to educate students, faculty, & staff on recycling efforts. We would like to emphasize proper waste procedures along with waste minimization.
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2019 - Educational outreach campaign and recycling bin reorganization. Omitted the 2018 pre-RecycleMania custodial training and added a Recycling Audit to further understand diversion rates.
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2019 - Recycling is Beautiful (RiB) is an awareness campaign and art project where students create artwork that is printed and wrapped around our concrete recycling bins.
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2019 - Education and awareness was practiced and assessed in initiating recycling on campus based on outreach and marketing strategies between the student body, administration, and faculty.
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2019 - Towson's inaugural Fix It Fair’s focus was to encourage students to be mindful consumers in a throwaway society—to fix more and waste less.
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2019 - The Office of Facilities collaborated with several on-campus offices and organizations to spread information and increase knowledge about the RecycleMania competition and proper campus recycling procedures.
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2018 - Strategic educational outreach targeting students, staff and faculty, and associated Recycling bin reorganization on Main campus.
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2018 - Educate UVA community about importance of reducing all food-associated waste by avoiding single-use plastics, composting uneaten food, and promoting use of reusable bags and containers.
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2018 - Our office did weekly tabling in our campus center to educate our students about waste on campus and give them resources to reduce their waste.
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2018 - The Sustainability Walk and Ride targeted two areas of sustainability: sustainable forms of transportation and reusable water bottles to reduce plastic waste.
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2018 - Towson University’s Zero Waste Campaign focused on encouraging the use of reusable items by students and the implementation of Zero Waste Events on campus.
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2018 - Using weekly themes and events, we used the RecycleMania competition as a platform to educate the campus community about waste minimization and landfill diversion opportunities.
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2018 - Educating students of the sustainability and food waste-reduction benefits provided when buying fresh produce from local farms.
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2018 - The focus of our 2018 RecycleMania campaign was student engagement and marketing outreach.
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2018 - Partnership between UT-Austin leadership skills development program and Resource Recovery to engage on-campus residents in interactive zero waste workshops and expand impact through outreach video.