About Marie Cottone
Author Marie Cottone is our green campus liason while attending the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame. While learning and writing about sustainability, she enjoys music and the great outdoors - woodsy nature, lakes, the ocean or any body of water...especially when they're clean, safe, and unpolluted!
Marie proudly hails from Scranton, PA
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The Campus Green: RecycleMania!
September 4, 2010 by Marie Cottone
Filed under The Campus Green
“Leeeeeeeeeeet’s get ready to RECYCLEEEEE!” We’re not talking about wrestlemania, but RecycleMania!
RecycleMania, a competition across the nation, is a benchmarking tool for college and university recycling programs to promote waste reduction activities to their campus communities. After 10 weeks of fierce competition, the results are in! The title of “Grand Champion” goes to California State University, San Marcos. In this short span of time, 510 different schools from all 50 states, Washington D.C., and Canada collectively recycled or composted just over 69.4 million pounds of waste. Now that’s a lot of party clean-ups. With 4.7 million students and 1.1 million faculty and staff participating in the mania, the word is definitely getting out about reducing, reusing, and recycling across college campuses.