Facilities Management

Ready, Set, RECYCLE!

RecycleMania 2012: February 5 - March 31

RecycleMania is a friendly competition among college and university recycling programs across North America and Canada to see which school can reduce the most waste, increase the most recycling and raise awareness of conservation issues across its campus.  The 2012 competition runs for 8 weeks - February 5 through March 31.

This is NKU’s fourth year to participate in RecycleMania.  To encourage participation, NKU is staging its own competition to see which NKU student organization is the greenest on campus.  All NKU student organizations are eligible to compete and see which one can recycle the most glass and plastic bottles and aluminum cans.  During each of the first 6 weeks of competition, 4 groups will compete against one other.  Results will be posted daily and a winner will declared at the end of each week.

During the 7th and 8th week, the weekly winners will compete against each other to which is the greenest student organization on campus.  A Grand Trophy and other prizes will be presented to the winning group.

Smaller student organizations may join together to compete.  Special bonus points will be awarded to teams that create and submit appropriate YouTube videos documenting their recycling efforts.

Here are the rules:

Signing up:

  1. Any NKU student group may apply to compete. 
  2. Applications can be found in the Student Life office or online at green.nku.edu.
  3. Applications are due to the Student Life office (SU303) by Monday, January 30.
  4. Smaller student groups may join forces to compete.
  5. The first 20 NKU student groups completing and submitting accepted applications will compete.

Week 1 - 6

  1. Four (4) student groups will compete each of the first 6 weeks (minus the Spring Break week).
  2. Competition weeks will be assigned by the NKU Recycling.
  3. Student groups will compete to see which can recycle the most glass and plastic bottles and aluminum cans during their competition week.
  4. Each group will be assigned a recycling bin in the Student Union.  All recyclables must be placed in their assigned bin.
  5. “Unrecyclables” (those without recycling labels) will not be accepted.
  6. Recyclables from off campus are not permitted nor are recyclables that have already been placed in recycling bins on the NKU campus.
  7. Groups may encourage friends and other supporters to recycle glass and plastic bottles and aluminum cans in their bins.
  8. No individual or group may remove bottles or cans from any of the bins.
  9. NKU Recycling ONLY will, on a daily basis, remove and weigh the recyclables and post the results.
  10. At the end of the week, NKU Recycling will declare the weekly winner and present an award.

Week 7

  1. The top two weekly winners (the two with the largest amount of recyclables in terms of weight) are automatically qualified for the final week of competition.
  2. The remaining weekly winners will compete again during the 7th week to see which will go on to compete during the final or 8th week.
  3. Competition rules remain the same.  See above.
  4. At the end of the week, NKU Recycling will declare the 7th week winner.

Week 8

  1. The winning group of the 7th week plus the top two weekly winning groups from the first 6 weeks will compete during the 8th week to see which is the greenest NKU group on campus!
  2. Competition rules remain the same.  See above.
  3. At the end of the week, NKU Recycling will declare the 2012 NKU RecycleMania winning group and award the Grand Trophy as well as other prizes.

Bonus Points:

  1. To earn an additional 20 pounds, competing organizations may create and submit one YouTube video documenting their participation in the 2012 RecycleMania competition.
  2. YouTube videos must be submitted during the week of competition to Rebecca Weatherford in NKU Marketing and Communications – weatherfor1@nku.edu.
  3. NKU Marketing and Communications will determine if the submitted video is appropriate and if additional pounds should be awarded.