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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! 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	22,360	155,260	14.4%
2/17-2/23	27,020	114,040	19.2%
2/24-3/2	21,060	66,000	24%
3/3-3/9	40,740	159,760	20%
3/10-3/16	17,280	83,420	17%
3/17-3/23	17,360	123,560	14%
3/24-3/30	16,160	77,780	17.2%
Total	186,180	857,640	17.8%

Interdorm Competition

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! 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
2/24-3/1	0.43	0.31	0.49	0.32	0.38	0.32	4.70	0.70	0.63	0.26	0.39
3/2-3/8	0.38	0.26	0.45	0.11	0.42	0.25	5.12	0.76	0.56	0.33	0.39
3/9-3/15	0.29	0.16	0.27	0.13	0.29	0.23	6.20	0.39	0.32	0.24	0.24
3/16-3/23	0.48	0.37	0.41	0.35	0.42	0.31	7.22	0.70	0.54	0.44	0.46
3/24-3/30	0.19	0.14	0.24	0.20	0.16	0.11	7.76	0.27	0.19	0.18	0.27
Total	3.02	2.25	3.1	2.25	3.02	2.19	38.56	4.88	4.15	2.7	2.85

Results from all schools are available on the RecycleMania Website.

Volunteer for Recyclemania

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. Please contact Sustainability Manager Clara Fang at cfang@towson.edu for more information.

Recyclemania in Towson History

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	2013	2008	2009	2010	2011	2013
Week 1*	23,948	11,456	5,570	19,636	n/a	n/a	38,701	29,084	44,120	n/a
Week 2	24,128	30,180	20,785	27,826	n/a	n/a	49,452	93,220	47,202	n/a
Week 3	24,199	25,580	29,140	15,980	24,200	n/a	54,126	58,569	87,141	77,820
Week 4	25,555	33,950	18,972	65,022	22,360	n/a	58,019	51,166	117,380	155,260
Week 5	25,163	23,780	33,250	9,435	27,020	n/a	64,666	97,017	72,153	114,040
Week 6	27,479	43,440	38,729	27,091	21,060	n/a	57,919	112,983	44,622	66,000
Week 7	25,291	30,550	37,189	44,260	40,740	n/a	55,293	105,470	97,104	159,760
Week 8	Spring Break	25,960	50,645	21,792	17,280	n/a	56,320	99,497	49,598	83,420
Week 9	24,919	Spring Break	Spring Break	Spring Break	17,360	n/a	Spring Break	Spring Break	Spring Break	123,560
Week 10	25,770	53,050	44,393	31,874	16,160	n/a	48,526	90,386	63,027	77,780

* 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.

*Statistics were not recorded for the 2012 competition nor for week 1 and week 2 of the 2013 competition

Office of Sustainability
General Services Building, Room 132A (map)
Hours: Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Phone: 410-704-3409
Fax: 410-704-6248
Email: gogreen@towson.edu