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From February 3 to April 5, Towson University is competing in Recyclemania, a national competition among colleges and universities to recycle and reduce waste. In 2012 we placed 164th out of 275 schools in the national competition by recycling 24 percent of our waste. However, University of Maryland-College Park beat us with a 35 percent recycling rate. Let’s beat them this year! This year we will also be running a campus competition between the Residence Halls. The residence with the most recycling per student will win a cash prize for its house fund in an amount equal to the number of students living there! The results for each week will be posted on Fridays beginning February 15 on this webpage.

	Total Recycled	Total Landfilled	Recycling Rate
2/3-2/9	24,200	77,820	23.7%
2/10-2/16	26,420	155,260	14.5%
2/17-2/23	31,420	114,040	21.6%
2/24-3/2
3/3-3/9
3/10-3/16
3/17-3/23
3/24-3/30

Interdorm Competition

Due to Towson's lease arrangements, Towson is unable to get weekly recycling totals from Millenium Hall, Paca House, and Tubman house. These buildings are not owned by Towson University and their trash and recycling are picked up by a different contractor. However, these houses will receive all Recyclemania promotions and their contributions are added to the all campus competition.

*All data represents pounds recycled per student

Residence Hall	Barton	Douglass	Tower A	Tower B	Tower C	Tower D	Newell	Prettyman	Scarborough	Residence Tower	Towson Run Apartments
2/3-2/9	0.42	0.31	0.43	0.41	0.46	0.29	1.67	0.77	0.73	0.37	0.40
2/10-2/16	0.35	0.33	0.40	0.38	0.47	0.37	2.42	0.59	0.64	0.44	0.24
2/17-2/23	0.48	0.37	0.41	0.35	0.42	0.31	3.47	0.70	0.54	0.44	0.46

Interested in helping Towson recycle? We are now looking for volunteers to help promote recycling. If you are part of a student group, consider getting your whole group involved. Recyclemania is the fun way to make a difference right here at Towson. Please contact Sustainability Manager Clara Fang at cfang@towson.edu for more information.

Results from all schools are available on the RecycleMania Website.

For ten weeks each spring, Towson University tracks and submits weekly recycling and refuse statistics as part of the national RecycleMania competition. Towson's results for the 2008, 2009 2010, 2011 competitions are listed below.

RecycleMania Standings (in pounds)
	Recycling				Refuse
	2008	2009	2010	2011	2008	2009	2010	2011
Week 1*	23,948	11,456	5,570	19,636	n/a	38,701	29,084	44,120
Week 2	24,128	30,180	20,785	27,826	n/a	49,452	93,220	47,202
Week 3	24,199	25,580	29,140	15,980	n/a	54,126	58,569	87,141
Week 4	25,555	33,950	18,972	65,022	n/a	58,019	51,166	117,380
Week 5	25,163	23,780	33,250	9,435	n/a	64,666	97,017	72,153
Week 6	27,479	43,440	38,729	27,091	n/a	57,919	112,983	44,622
Week 7	25,291	30,550	37,189	44,260	n/a	55,293	105,470	97,104
Week 8	Spring Break	25,960	50,645	21,792	n/a	56,320	99,497	49,598
Week 9	24,919	Spring Break	Spring Break	Spring Break	n/a	Spring Break	Spring Break	Spring Break
Week 10	25,770	53,050	44,393	31,874	n/a	48,526	90,386	63,027

* Note that week one of the 2009 and 2010 competitions occurred the week before the beginning of spring semester, when students were not on campus.

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