EPA Game Day Recycling Challenge Announced
October 06, 2010 04:29 PM | General
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (October 6, 2010) – More than 40 West Virginia University student-athletes will participate in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Game Day Recycling Challenge, a friendly competition for colleges and universities to promote recycling at their home football games.
WVU picked the Saturday, Oct. 9 home game against UNLV to track and report both recycling and waste data. The information will then be used by the EPA to rank the participating schools, and the winner will be announced in November. The challenge is a collaborative effort between the EPA and the participating schools.
Last year, West Virginia participated in the challenge with its game against Marshall and finished fourth nationally.
Recycling and trash will be reported to the EPA in pounds. Recyclable materials included in the EPA challenge are paper (boxboard/chipboard, programs, newspapers, office paper); beverage containers (plastic bottles and cups, aluminum and steel cans, glass bottles and jars); corrugated cardboard (cardboard boxes); organics (pre- and post-consumer food waste and compostable dinnerware); and trash (municipal solid waste disposed via landfill or incinerator).
WVU’s Mountaineers Recycle program collects cans and plastic bottles on game days. The program averages 2.5 tons of recyclable materials per game. Recycling efforts have been in place at Milan Puskar Stadium for the past five years.
WVU student-athletes and other volunteers will distribute recycling kits in WVU parking lots around the stadium and help with the collection of waste on Saturday.
WVU picked the Saturday, Oct. 9 home game against UNLV to track and report both recycling and waste data. The information will then be used by the EPA to rank the participating schools, and the winner will be announced in November. The challenge is a collaborative effort between the EPA and the participating schools.
Last year, West Virginia participated in the challenge with its game against Marshall and finished fourth nationally.
Recycling and trash will be reported to the EPA in pounds. Recyclable materials included in the EPA challenge are paper (boxboard/chipboard, programs, newspapers, office paper); beverage containers (plastic bottles and cups, aluminum and steel cans, glass bottles and jars); corrugated cardboard (cardboard boxes); organics (pre- and post-consumer food waste and compostable dinnerware); and trash (municipal solid waste disposed via landfill or incinerator).
WVU’s Mountaineers Recycle program collects cans and plastic bottles on game days. The program averages 2.5 tons of recyclable materials per game. Recycling efforts have been in place at Milan Puskar Stadium for the past five years.
WVU student-athletes and other volunteers will distribute recycling kits in WVU parking lots around the stadium and help with the collection of waste on Saturday.
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