RECYCLE MANIA at University of Arizona

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RECYCLE MANIAatUniversity of Arizona
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Old Main The University of Arizona
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Old Main Today
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Urban University
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If you cant go out go down
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Residence Halls
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Residence Halls
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Residence Halls
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Residence Halls
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Residence Halls
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Each college and university program is different

• Size
• Demographics
• Equipment
• Weather
• Funding
• Staffing

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Every type of program can participate

• Adapt
• Tweak
• Manipulate
• Adjust
• Everyone becomes a winner

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How can a small program participate or how
Residence Life at the University of Arizona made
it work!

• Dont be intimidated by those other schools!
• Commitment
• Hall to hall competition
• Promote Recycle mania
• Collect and tag
• Saturday weigh-in
• Reward
• Collection
• Staging
• Vehicle
• Weighing
• Focus

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Vehicle
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Saturday Weigh-ins
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Saturday Weigh-in
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Saturday Weigh-in
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Saturday Weigh-in
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Saturday Weigh-in
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Saturday Weigh-in
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Hype

• Pens
• Email
• President of University
• Campus Newspaper
• Staff
• Residential Education
• Recycling Chairs
• Banner

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Hype Email to President Likins

• President Likins,
• I would like to make you aware of a program, in
  which Residence Life's recycling program has
  matured to a stage of participation beyond the
  campus level. Residence Life Recycling is
  stepping forward to participate in a national
  recycling competition between other colleges and
  universities throughout the United States.
  Recycle Mania is a friendly competition to see
  who can collect the largest amount of recyclables
  from residence halls, on-campus apartments and
  dining halls in 10 weeks. Measurements are
  reported weekly on a pounds recycled per
  resident. We will be representing the residence
  halls and will provide residents with a fun,
  pro-active activity in waste-reduction. Our main
  goal by participating in this event is to
  increase student awareness in campus recycling.
• The program began in 2001 at Ohio University as
  an attempt to boost recycling and diversion.
  Despite their recycling successes at OU and some
  of the other top recycling universities in the
  nation, they discovered that certain on-campus
  facilities tend to produce most of the campus
  waste. In particular, their residence halls and
  dining halls were the largest producers of campus
  waste - from 30 to 70 of campus trash. Waste
  audits they conducted suggested that up to half
  of all residence hall trash was recyclable.
  Thus, Recycle Mania was born!
• The overall goals are to
• Have a fair and friendly recycling competition
• Increase recycling participation by (on-campus)
  students and staff
• Heighten awareness of schools' waste management
  and recycling program
• Expand economic opportunities while addressing
  environmental issues in a positive way
• Lower waste generated on-campus by reducing,
  reusing and recycling
• Organize this event successfully so it can be
  repeated and possibly expanded to other campuses
  in the future
• As you travel about campus next week you will
  begin to see banners announcing "Recycle Mania is
  Here" over the entrances to ten of our twenty
  residence halls. We will officially begin on
  February 2nd, with the competition ending on
  April 9th. We hope our campus newspaper will
  find this a news worthy event and follow the
  competition over the ten week period keeping the
  campus aware of our efforts. One of the criteria
  for this event is all universities must publish
  the winner of the competition in their school
  newspaper. Whether the UA wins or another
  university we all see ourselves as winners...

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Hype Response from President Likins

• Deb ...
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•      Competition always gets people going, so I'm
  pleased and impressed by Recycle Mania.  Well
  done !
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• Cheers ...
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• Pete Likins
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Hype Email to Wildcat

• As you travel about campus next week you will
  begin to see banners announcing "Recycle Mania is
  Here" over the entrances to ten of our twenty
  residence halls. We will officially begin on
  February 2nd, with the competition ending on
  April 9th. We hope the Arizona Daily Wildcat
  will find this a news worthy event and will
  periodically follow the competition over the ten
  week period keeping the campus aware of our
  efforts.
• To make this event even more interesting our
  recycling chairs are making this a hall to hall
  competition to see which hall can recycle the
  most material during this timeframe. You may want
  to interview some of our chairs to ask them what
  strategies they are using in their hall to get
  the resident to recycle. There will be a prize
  for the winning hall. We will be reporting weekly
  totals from our collections - maybe you could
  even do a campus survey asking staff and students
  which hall they think will win or interview
  residents on what they think of the competition -
  good or bad.
• Whether we come out number one or not, we are
  excited because this will be the first time we
  will be able to do a measurement against other
  colleges and universities to see how well we are
  doing on a national level. I hope you will
  consider publishing information about this event
  in an effort to further promote recycling not
  only in the residence hall but throughout the
  campus.

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Hype Wildcat article
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Hype Wildcat article
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Hype- Blurb in Wildcat

• The Bomb Recycle Mania! OK, it's not as
  exciting as it sounds, but Residence Life should
  be applauded for keeping this tradition going.
  Whether you're an environmentalist or not,
  recycling is easy and just plain common sense.

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Hype Staff Emails

• Greeting Recyclemanians,
• There was a nice twist in Recycle Mania this week
  with ASU's totals for the week dropping to .96
  pounds per residents from their last week total
  of 2.4 pounds per residents so it ain't over yet!
  Our totals jumped from last weeks .19 pounds per
  residents to .58 pounds per residents - this was
  a great increase and I am very happy to see those
  figures go up - Great Job Everyone! ASU still
  leads the UA but with the continued enthusiasm
  our chairs and residents are showing we still
  have a fighting chance to surpass those ASU folks
  weights. For more information just go to the
  website at www.life.arizona.edu/'recycle
• Several HDs have referred conduct cases for
  community service hours our way and that is a big
  help for our Saturday weigh-ins. Keep them
  coming and a big, big thanks for supporting
  recycling and Recycle Mania.

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Banner
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Rivalry

• ASU Sun Devils AKA Scum Devils

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Rivalry Go Wildcats!
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Rivalry
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Make It Fun
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Make It Fun
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Make It Fun
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Make It Fun
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Make It Fun
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Make It Fun

• Email results to everyone
• Stay positive and let everyone know how great
  they are doing

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Benefits

• Environment
• Promote and encourage recycling
• Recognition within the campus and local community
• Bonds universities and colleges together in a
  common cause
• Creates and builds friendships
• Benchmark
• Its a lot of fun
• Positive competition -- everyone is a winner!