Dive Brief:
- Recyclemania, a competition and benchmarking tool which promotes waste-reduction activities to students, is expected to draw in colleges and universities across the United States and Canada.
- Participating institutions are asked to report volumes of waste and recycling amassed during an eight week timeframe.
- Over 650 colleges entered the competition in 2013.
Dive Insight:
The competition began on February 2, and will end on March 30. Schools are ranked across different categories, according to the amount of recycling collected per capita, which schools produce the smallest amount of waste, and who has the overall highest percentage of total waste.