Tag archive for ‘RecycleMania’
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February 19, 2013
For the third year, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is challenging the University of Florida Gators to see who can recycle the most. UT won the first year, but not...Read More »
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April 19, 2012
More than a quarter-ton of paper, a half-pound of food waste, and 1.25 pounds of plastic bottles and aluminum cans per faculty, staff, and student. That's just a sample of...Read More »
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March 27, 2012
The RecycleMania competition is entering its eighth and final week and the campus is celebrating the milestone by focusing on compostable food waste. At three zero-waste events this week, employees...Read More »
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March 12, 2012
RecycleMania, the waste-reduction competition between colleges nationwide, continues at UT this week with one of the campaign's most enjoyable events: Recyclympics. Recyclympics combines athletic prowess with plastics, paper, and cans...Read More »
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February 6, 2012
Today is the first day of RecycleMania. What have you recycled today? RecycleMania is a friendly eight-week competition between universities across the country to promote waste reduction activities to their...Read More »
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March 28, 2011
UT Knoxville is in its final week of Recyclemania and has overtaken its opponent Florida in per-capita recycling. To date, UT Knoxville has recycled a cumulative total of 7.89 pounds...Read More »
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March 17, 2011
There are just three weeks left in this year's RecycleMania and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is off to a great start! In the first five weeks, the campus has...Read More »
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February 11, 2011
Next week the Paper Purge Party Crew will make the rounds on campus in an effort to top the more than 63,060 pounds of cardboard, paper, plastic and cans recycled...Read More »
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February 9, 2011
UT Knoxville recycled more than 63,060 pounds of cardboard, paper, plastic and cans -- about 1.5 pounds per full-time staff person -- last year during RecycleMania. Next week, UT is...Read More »
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March 30, 2010
On a sunny and warm Friday afternoon in March, about 100 students and staff at UT Knoxville could be seen stacking aluminum cans, shot-putting phonebooks and throwing old Lane Kiffin...Read More »
