By Jenna Bracken, Waste Management intern
PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State University will start tracking waste weights for RecycleMania 2015 on Sunday, Feb. 1. A new aspect of the annual challenge will encourage students and employees to earn points by sharing progress on social media.
RecycleMania is a friendly competition and benchmarking tool for college and university recycling programs to promote waste reduction to their campus communities. Over an 8-week period each spring, schools across the United States and Canada report the amount of recycling and trash collected and are ranked in various categories.
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Schools can follow their performance compared to peers and use the results to rally their campus to reduce and recycle more. Learn more at http://recyclemaniacs.org/.
A new, tandem competition, the 3R Actions Challenge, will be facilitated by Taylor Harrison, chair of the Associated Students of WSU Environmental Sustainability Alliance.
Each time a student or employee texts, tweets or uses a special app to share how they have recycled, composted, reused or reduced waste, they will give WSU a bump in recycling spirit rankings.
For the richest experience, participants are encouraged to join the myActions platform, either at http://campus.myactions.org or by downloading the mobile app from the Apple or Android app stores. Actions also can be shared via text messages or tweets. Get the details at http://recyclemaniacs.org/participate/rules/divisions-categories/3r-actions-challenge.