| RecycleMania: Upcoming Sustainability Event: April 10 |
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April 7, 2009,
Volume 55, No. 28
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Upcoming Sustainability Event: April 10
Penn’s Green Campus Partnership needs you to play your part in helping us meet this year’s goal of 30% recycling. Join the Penn community in focusing on recycling as much as possible and reducing the waste we generate.
Upcoming Sustainability Event: Greenfest Celebration, sponsored by Penn Environmental Group (PEG) and RecycleMania will be held on Friday, April 10, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. on College Green.
A semi-annual event held on College Green by PEG, Greenfest promotes environmentally friendly initiatives and educates the Penn community about sustainability. The festivities will include activities such a bake sale, free food from local resources, tie-dying, t-shirt and canvas bag sales, ink cartridge collection, and trivia with a green spin. The celebration will host a diverse set of University and neighborhood-based groups offering information, including Engineers Without Borders, Philly Car Share, Penn Moves, Penn Bookstore, Penn Vegetarian Society, Penn Outdoors, RecycleMania, Clean Air Council, and the Green Campus Partnership. Stop by and learn more about the impact you can make by going green.
The RecycleMania Competition
As the RecycleMania competition draws to a close, results from January 18 to March 21 show Penn running better than last year when our recycling rate was 18%. A full wrap-up with final statistics will be available mid-April. Our efforts are ongoing long after the competition ends, but as of week 9, here is how we stack up against our Ivy peers.
Rank |
School Name |
Cumulative Recycling Rate (%) |
1 |
Harvard |
29.72% |
2 |
Stanford |
28.62% |
3 |
Princeton |
28.30% |
4 |
Penn |
21.52% |
5 |
Yale |
21.46% |
6 |
Cornell |
21.18% |
7 |
MIT |
20.38% |
8 |
Brown |
18.23% |
How Does RecycleMania Work? The recycling rate is calculated by the National Recycling Coalition based upon weights submitted from each school during any given week of the competition:Total weight of cans, bottles, plastics, paper, cardboard is divided by the Total weight of trash plus cans, bottles, plastics, paper and cardboard. For more information, check out www.recyclemania.org.
How can you participate and help Penn reach its goal of 30% recycling rate? When yourecycle, you help the Penn environment. If you would like help improving the recycling effort for your College House or your office, contact Penn’s RecycleMania 2009 team at recyclemania@pobox.upenn.edu. We’ll be happy to assist with information, planning events, helping to answer questions or solving recycling problems.
See www.upenn.edu/recyclemania for more information on what you can do to help Penn recycle!
—RecycleMania Planning Committee
Related: Update: April AT PENN |
