The campus once again participated in RecycleMania, the annual spring semester competition among colleges and universities designed to promote waste reduction while instilling lifelong recycling habits within its participants. This year marks Fredonia’s fifth straight year of participation, where it finished second place among all of the competing SUNY schools in RecycleMania’s Per Capita category.
Members of the campus community generated a per-capita ranking of 18.28 pounds of recycled materials per person, which ranks 78th among 338 college and universities across the country. Union College ranked first with an astounding 61.79 total pounder person recycled during the eight week competition.
SUNY Fredonia was able to:
- Recycled 147,260 pounds or roughly 43 tons
- Reduce 130 Metric Tons of CO2 or,
- Took 69 cars of the road or,
- Reduce the energy consumption of 34 households
Last year, Blue Devils young and old generated a per-capita ranking of 19.09 pounds of recycled materials per person, good for 71st among 363 schools overall (up from 106th in 2010, which had over 100 fewer participants), and tops among the seven SUNY schools entered.
To view the full competition results, visit www.recyclemaniacs.org.
