Love to Recycle Events
Waste Sort Challenge For Prizes!! Wed. Feb. 29th @6-7pm in Usdan:
Come show us how awesome you are at recycling and we'll give you cool things!
What's your Recycling Grade Point Average? On going February
Each Quad will be getting graded on their recycling abilities. Check back here for an update on what your Recycling GPA is. Can you help earn an A+ for your quad or floor?
Stay tuned for updates.
Past Events
Recycling Craftapalooza! Thurs. 2/2 @8pm in the SCC:
Come make recycling sculptures and signs to help educate the Brandeis community! Show some lovin'!
Recyclegrams for Valentine’s! Thurs. 2/9 + Fri. 2/10 @12-3pm in Usdan:
Don't miss the chance to send a FREE candygram (w/ a card made of recyclable, reused paper) to your Valentines!
Heavy Thoughts
In the 2010-2011 school year Brandeis trashed 2,714,460 lbs. To put in in perspective, that's the weight of over 270 elephants! Can you imagine all those elephants hanging out on campus? Hanging out on the great lawn? Swimming in Yakus Pond?
We don't want recycling and waste reduction to be "the elephant in the room". Feel free to let your friends and colleagues know how they can help reduce waste and recycle properly! Often people are unaware of the ease of recycling at Brandeis with our single stream system and just need a friendly reminder.
Brandeis Loves Recycling
As part of the Recyclemania 2012 competition, a friendly competition among colleges, Brandeis is working to reduce our waste.We are tracking the weekly pounds of trash, recycling, and composting that leaves campus. You can see our improvements in our recycling rate over time. Let's try and improve this year's numbers! We will use our results from last year as a benchmark to beat. The competition is a campus wide effort, meaning all students, faculty, staff, and visitors can participate!
We have named February as Brandeis Loves Recycling Month. The Eco-Reps will be holding several events in partnership with SEA and other campus groups throughout the month and invite all Brandeis community members to participate.
Waste Tracking at Brandeis
Chart of Yearly Waste Tons
Chart of Yearly Waste Statistics
|
Academic Year |
Student Pop. |
Recycling Rate |
Waste Diversion Rate |
Pounds Municipal Waste Per Student |
Pounds Recycling Per Student |
|
2008-2009 |
5,327 |
13.25% |
43.08% |
814.05 |
77.50 |
|
2009-2010 |
5,619 |
13.64% |
39.92% |
648.86 |
68.02 |
|
2010-2011 |
5,642 |
19.68% |
39.01% |
710.97 |
124.95 |
|
2011- Nov. 2011 |
5,828 |
18.99% |
38.19% |
311.28 |
52.75 |
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Recycling Rate: combines trash and recyclable materials to determine recycling rate as a percentage of its overall waste generation. This demonstrates achievement in both source reduction and recycling.
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Waste Diversion Rate: combines trash, commercial composting, and recyclable materials to determine recycling rate as a percentage of its overall waste generation.
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Waste Per Student: Amount of municipal solid waste (both recyclables and trash) per person. This statistic emphasizes reuse and source reduction over recycling. Use Less, Recycle the Rest- see Reduction Tips.
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Recycling Per Student: This statistics shows how many recyclables per person we are generating- while better to recycle than trash we would love to see this number go down too!