Within my last article, I mentioned the reality Television series Hoarders and its concentrate on strange acquisitive behaviors. In this post I discuss RecycleMania, which sounds similar to a possible result to Hoarders, with a tilt toward the opposite end to the mental spectrum.
RecycleMania is actually a countrywide college event where schools compete to find out who is able to reuse the most things over a 10-week period of time. To win, contending colleges should collect the most recyclables (every capita or total) and generate the least amount of trash.
RecycleMania capitalizes on the quite appreciated school tradition: defeating the jeans down competitor institutions with a competitive tournament (talking about pants, as of this writing the categories of recyclables contained in the competition didn't included clothes or other textiles, but I am hopeful they'll be involved, maybe next year).
The RecycleMania website describes the concept behind the event this way:
Universities and colleges are small cities that consume large amounts of resources and generate much solid waste. No matter if a college has an extensive squander decrease program or is simply getting fundamental recycle gathering off the ground, experience indicates that all schools have possibility to additional reduce the quantity of resources they squander and dispose of. RecycleMania provides a device for campus recycling coordinators, college student green groups and service service experts to engage their campus community in reusing and squander reduction in an enjoyable and safe way.
Planet Aid
The event is the invention of Ed Newman (Ohio University) and Stacy Edmonds Wheeler (Miami University), who in 2001 tried to discover a method to increase recycle in school residence and dinning places. Since that first contest (Miami won it), the match is growing continuously, with involvement nearly doubling each year.
In 2010 more than 600 campuses participated from all 50 states and also the District of Columbia. Their combined attempts netted nearly 85 million scales of reused materials. This has improved reduce greenhouse gas by 137,500 metric tons ofcarbon dioxide equality. In real-world conditions, this particular reduction in greenhouse gases is the same as the annual emissions from 23,850 individual cars; electricity usage of 15,140 houses; or even the burning of 650 railcars’ worth of coal. This provides the type of reality we like to see!
