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Colleges compete to reduce waste in the Game Day Challenge

by Brant Williams on October 14, 2010

in Environment, ZeroWaste

The EPA is sponsoring a friendly competition amongst U.S. colleges and universities to try to reduce the waste produced at football games. Any school can sign up. Once in the program, they need to track how much waste is produced at games as a function of attendance. One game will be designated as their Game Day Challenge -- the big day to raise awareness about waste produced. Five awards ...

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Dialing For Dollars

by admin on January 12, 2010

in Environment

When was the last time you actually used a phone book? I don't mean going online - the paper version. According to research, an estimated 650,000 tons of paper phone books are produced per year and delivered to over one hundred million households. The EPA estimates that only 117,000 tons (18%) are recycled each year. What's the cost to to tax payers to recycle phone books? About $50 to $75 per ...

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