Recycling
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RECYCLEMANIA Set to Kickoff April 6th
For the first time, CSB/SJU will be competing in RECYCLEMANIA, a competition among colleges and universities to see who can recycle the most. Over the 8-week period, schools report recycling and trash data which are then ranked according to who collects the largest amount of recyclables per capita, least amount of trast per capita, and the highest recycling rate. With each week's reports and rankings, participating schools watch how their results fluctuate against other schools and use this to rally their campus communities to reduce waste and recycle more. Stay tuned to see how Saint John's and Saint Ben's perform.
Why Recycle?
The more you know, the harder it is not to recycle. Recycling is about more than the environment. Recycling saves money; it costs more to take away waste than it does to recycle. Recycling creates jobs- over 20,000 people are employed in Minnesota alone. In 2006, the materials recycled were worth $436,000,000 to Minnesota. Recycling saves energy. It takes far less energy to recycle an aluminum can than it does to create a new one, enough to run a TV for three hours. With the energy saved from recycled glass, plastics, and aluminum, Minnesotans saved enough energy to power the cities of Duluth, Rochester, St. Cloud, and the twin cities for a year. Recycling protects our natural resources. Recycling saves trees from being cut, coal and aluminum from being mined, and oil from being used to create plastic bags. We can't recycle plastic bags on campus, but many grocery stores do. Recycling diverts materials from entering the landfill. Landfills can leak leachate into underground water supplies.