Recycle Mania 2011

In the 2010 Recycle Mania competition, MCC recycled right over 20,000 pounds of single stream recyclables. Our goal was to increase our volume by 10% which was a 2000 pound or 1 ton increase.

In the 2011 Recycle Mania competition, MCC recycled over 38,500 pounds of single stream recycles which caused us to increase our 10% goal by over 8 tons! MCC held three specific recycling events to promote Recycle Mania including: two single stream recycling events and one campus wide shred day event. Both were a huge success! In addition to increasing our volume by over 45% since last year, MCC recycled the following items during Recycle Mania as part of our sustainable efforts:

• 28 trees
• 621 gallons of oil
• 11,442 gallons of water
• 7,846 kilowatts of electricity
• 163 cubic yards of landfill space

On Thursday, April 14^th, over 65 of MCC’s students joined the Sustainability Committee to celebrate our first annual Tree Campus USA event. These students volunteered to help spread mulch around campus trees, they also prepared flower beds for planting, and they also picked up trash and recyclables around campus.

The Sustainability Committee thanks each of you and our students for contributing your time to sustainability and recycling. Please continue your own efforts to reduce, reuse, recycle, and re-buy!

Arbor Day Celebration at MCC

Come join us for MCC’s Arbor Day on April 14, 2011!

This modest celebration recognizes our college’s efforts in protecting our rich legacy of trees across the campus. We also wish to recognize one of our greats, Joe Zajicek, for 45 years of service to MCC by planting a new tree in his honor on the campus. Fittingly, this tree commemorates a long history of teaching excellence while also representing the new growth of our “green” buildings by growing between our new Science and new Health Science buildings.

Arbor Day activities include:

• Events start with a mulching project at 1 PM to protect our existing trees. Anyone interested in helping with this project please meet in front of the new Science building at 1 PM.

• At 2:15 PM we will hold a special ceremony recognizing Arbor Day and Joe Zajicek’s 45 years of MCC service. Joe will dedicate the burr oak tree planted in his honor. The ceremony will take place in the grove of trees between the new Science and the Health Science buildings.
  

• At 3 PM, Janis Jackson, MCC Botany instructor, will conduct one of her lively tours of our campus trees. We encourage all to consider this tour as our campus has a great diversity of trees and plants.

The event is open to all, including students. Help us get the word out and hope to see you there.
MCC Sustainability Committee