RecycleMania is underway at McLennan Community College!
MCC is participating in RecycleMania from January 18 – March 28, 2009.
What is RecycleMania? RecyleMania is a friendly national competition and benchmarking effort among over 500 college and university to promote waste reduction activities to their campus communities. MCC is participating this year for the first time in the benchmarking, a less stringent competition, to help us prepare for later full competition. Some of you might remember that Baylor University was noted in the Waco Tribune Herald recently for their efforts in the 2008 RecyleMania competition. We believe MCC can best that and serve as a role model for the community in all areas of sustainability.
How can you get involved? During this Spring’s competition, our college will measure how much we can recycle in comparison with other colleges and to our amount of trash (non-recyclables). All of us play a role in this competition so we ask that you begin recycling in your office using the desk-side blue bins provided by the college. If you already have one, start putting in more than just paper. If you don’t have one, have your administrative secretary contact the Physical Plant at 299-8843 to request bins for your area. Empty your blue bins into the closest large black bin in your building.
What can you recycle? MCC Students can start recycling all major recyclables including paper, plastic, aluminum, and cardboard in the common area recycling containers. These containers will be located in hallways and other common areas and will be clearly labeled. MCC is not accepting glass at this time. The yellow dumpsters located across campus are designated as recycling dumpsters. Students can also put their recyclables in those containers. MCC will be ordering additional containers over the next three years to provide campus wide recycling for common areas. The following flier lists all acceptable materials: http://www.mclennan.edu/gogreen/Recycleable.pdf.
How else can you get involved? Stay tuned for notices answering other questions you may have about recycling on campus, including the question of glass, student/common area recycling, and the location of additional black bins. We refer you to the new MCC Sustainability web site at www.mclennan.edu/gogreen. We will also in the process of creating a blog and an email alias for all us of to share and discuss sustainability and ideas on how to implement it across campus. We welcome all of your input and help in making MCC a “greener” campus.
MCC Sustainability Committee.
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