Recyclemania 2010

Beginning January 17th, Lasell College embarked on a nation wide challenge to recycle as much waste as we could in a 10 week period. This competition was brought to us by "Recyclemania."

"Recyclemania" is described as "a friendly competition and benchmarking tool for college and university recycling programs to promote waste reduction activities to their campus communities." Basically, schools report recycling and trash data which are then ranked according to who collects the largest amount of recyclables per capita, the largest amount of total recyclables, the least amount of trash per capita, or have the highest recycling rate. With each week’s reports and rankings, participating schools watch how their results fluctuate against other schools and use this to rally their campus communities to reduce and recycle more.

Lasell has managed to do pretty well since the beginning of the competition. Out of the 607 schools registered, on February 2nd Lasell was ranked 132nd spot out of the 179 in the Competition Division. This achievement was noted on the Lasell Recyclemania Facebook Group Page as "Not bad, but not good." Unfortunately, on February 7 Lasell was recorded at 189. Though, there is time for improvement and with our colleges recent developments to become more "green," I am sure a comeback is instore.

To find out more information about Recyclemania feel free to visit http://www.recyclemania.org/ and for information regarding Recyclemania at Lasell, check out the Facebook group by searching Lasell College Recyclemania 2010.