In February of this year, Facilities Student Helper Ian Gauger embarked on a project to redo the Facilities for Residential Life office’s mail system. New mailboxes needed to be added to accommodate new additions to facilities staff. Furthermore, all of the flimsy metal mailboxes were in desperate need of improvement in order to accommodate holding tools and other large items which they were often required to.
The process began with a number of measurements that were used to create a CAD drawing of what the new mailboxes would look like. Ian then began breaking down an old “sleigh bed”, which had been replaced by newer …
Once again it is time to review and celebrate the University of Rochester’s performance in RecycleMania. For the fifth year in a row, we have participated in this annual competition between over 600 colleges and universities across North America. RecycleMania lasts a period of ten weeks, and evaluates different categories of waste minimization and recycling such as paper, corrugated cardboard, per capita waste, and overall best recycling rate. The top prizes are awarded to schools with the highest recycling rates per capita, lowest weight of waste per capita, and greatest amount of recycled material by tonnage. Congratulations to this year’s winners: Grand Champion University of …
There is an odd quietness in the air this week. Could it be that after ten weeks of gathering data, competing among other schools, and promotion, RecycleMania has ended? Yes, that’s it! There is no doubt that the place UR really shone this year was in promotion this year. For the first time ever, a promotional committee was formed by the recycling office and Grassroots to create a full line-up of events and activities. Each week had a different theme ranging from recycling, to water conservation, to landfill waste, to art. Members of the committee involved many student groups such as GreenSpace, EcoReps, Engineers for …
In honor of RecycleMania 2013, a group was organized to visit the Monroe County Recycling Center last Friday, March 1st. A very special thank you to Patrick Colins for sharing his expertise and leading a great tour and conversation. We discussed many topics and got to see firsthand just how our recyclables are handled after we put them in the bin. Below are some of our pictures. Click here for more pictures of our RecycleMania promotional events.
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Students personalized their own Valentine’s Day cards ou of hand-pulped recycled paper.
We are really into it now! This is Week 3 of the official RecycleMania Competition, or Week 5 including the two pre-season weeks. We are submitting our data and doing what we can to promote recycling and sustainability on campus. Each week we have designated a theme to focus on and plan our educational events and activities around. Preseason Week 1 was Go Green, where we encouraged students to get involved by taking the University’s Go Green Pledge. Week 2 was Sustainable Agriculture and Composting. Tabling was held by the UR Microfarm …
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