Tag archive for ‘UT Recycling’
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March 19, 2013
UT's recycling efforts got a big boost from the Alcoa Foundation. The foundation donated 1,584 recycling bins, valued at $5,000, which the university is deploying inside sorority houses, and inside...Read More »
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December 20, 2012
Greenhouse gases, meet your match. Last September through November, UT competed in the Environmental Protection Agency's Game Day Recycling Challenge, finishing first in the greenhouse gas reduction category, and two...Read More »
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May 14, 2012
What do you do with those old cell phones you can't use anymore? Or the laptop that has outlived its usefulness? Bring them to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, on...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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April 12, 2012
Upgrading to a new phone, but not sure what to do with your old one? Since early February, the campus has been collecting people's personal electronic devices to be recycled....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 27, 2012
Each day of spring break, from March 19 to 23, UT Recycling will host the annual Paper Purge Party. UT Recycling will be going around campus, building by building, collecting...Read More »
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February 27, 2012
Have you ever wanted to know where all your trash and recyclables end up? Faculty, staff, and students are invited to jump on the Make Orange Green bus and join...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 »
