校园零浪费竞赛

  1. Center for 环境正义 and Sustainability
  2. 国外博彩app
  3. 校园零浪费竞赛
Students sort through trash to prevent recycling and compost from going to the landfill.

2024年校园零浪费竞赛

2024 校园零浪费竞赛 Results

SU joined over 80 colleges and universities across the country in a competition to reduce the campus waste footprint through minimization efforts by donating, 堆肥, 回收利用超过30个.700万磅的废物. 结果是, 集体, we have kept more than 105 million single-use plastic containers out of landfills and prevented the release of 23,174 metric tons equivalent of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, equal to avoiding the annual emissions from 5,515辆汽车.

SU 2024 Highlights: We Continue to be a Leader in Waste-Reduction Efforts!

  • SU ranked 2nd nationally in the diversion from landfill category of the competition with a 62.导流率57%.
  • SU ranked 1st in the medium sized campus division of the diversion category of the competition.
  • SU recycled and composted 131,544 pounds of waste throughout the 8 weeks of the competition.
  • Reduced our cumulative greenhouse gas emissions by 158 metric tons of CO2—which is the same as keeping 31 cars off the road or the energy consumed by 14 households. 

Learn more about 国外博彩app’s waste minimization efforts at SU堆肥和回收.

For more details about the results of the 2024 校园零浪费竞赛 Competition, 请浏览 2024年记分板.

What is 校园零浪费竞赛?

校园零浪费竞赛 (formerly Recyclemania) is an eight-week recycling competition happening January 29–March 25, 2024 between colleges and universities across North America. 大学 and Universities compete to see how well they are doing in their waste reduction efforts and gauge how they compare to other institutions! 

We will post our weekly ranking on this page, so STAY TUNED for competition updates!

2024 Competition Details: GET INVOLVED and BE THE CHANGE!

Competition categories SU will participate in this year:

  • Diversion = Recyclables, 食物 Organics, and Trash weights reported
  • Per Capita = Combined amount of paper, cardboard and bottles and cans on a per person basis
  • 食物 Organics = 食物 waste and any organic materials handled alongside food waste reported. Organics generated in office and campus residential settings and special events can be included in addition to what is collected from dining facilities
  • Electronics = Total amount of electronics donated and recycled during a one-month period

苏2024年的比赛目标

  • Rank within the top five schools in the diversion category. In 2023, SU placed 11th in the diversion category with a 57.导流率4%.
  • Rank within the top 10 schools for e-waste category.
  • That it is SU's goal to become a Zero Waste campus!
  • That 50% of SU's trash is actually compostable!
  • That all of SU's pre-consumers food waste is composted on campus and reused on our grounds!

即将来临的国外博彩app & 重要的日子

当: 2月6日上午11点.m.–12:15 p.m.
地点: Garrand 114

描述: Interested in how to properly sort your waste? Join us in educating the campus community and bringing awareness to proper waste disposal. We will discuss the disposal stream accepted in King County/Seattle (and special streams at SU), where they need to be discarded and answer any lingering questions of what goes where. 

当: 2月21日上午9点.m.–1 p.m.
地点: 转个身

描述: THE ANNUAL COMMUNITY RECYCLING DAY IS BACK. 家里有太多“东西”? Get your spring cleaning done early and bring in your dorm, 首页, or office recyclables to SU’s 社区回收日 for FREE recycling and donation! 报名参加 这里的志愿者. 视图 and download event flyer here.

当: 3月6日.m.
地点: 图书馆广场

描述: Pull up your sleeves and join us to find out how much waste and recyclables SU generates per day. 报名参加 这里的志愿者. 

时间:3月27日，全天
地点: Residence halls and STCN

描述: Do you have textbooks that you no longer use? Donate them to a book donation bin near the resident halls and student center. Books collected will be donated to Books to Prisoners- a Seattle nonprofit. 在此阅览及下载传单.

 

 

访问 the official 校园零浪费竞赛 website at http://campusracetozerowaste.org/.

Questions about SU’s 回收 Department and the programs we offer? 电子邮件 内森Wolk 或浏览 堆肥和回收页.