School Name:

Ohio University

School RecycleMania/Recycling Web Site:

Spring Break Dates:

Year Recycling Program Started:

1990

Number of Students Living On-Campus:

7,529

Number of Residence Halls:

41

Number of On-Campus Apartment Buildings:

12

Number of Dining Halls:

5

Number of "To Go" Food Areas:

Current Recycling Percentage for On-Campus Housing:

20% - 25%

Total On-Campus Population:

Total Number of On-Campus Buildings:

Current Recycling Percentage for all On-Campus Facilities:

Recyclables Currently Recycled:

Recycling Goals:

• To recycle 80% of campus waste with minimum disruption of day to day operations

How will your university SPECIFICALLY measure the recyclables? Will you use volume based or actual weight measurements?:

Ohio University’s students in residence halls and apartments are expected to take their recyclables out to the recycling storage and collection sites by the trash dumpsters located at their buildings. Service staff will take recyclables from public areas of the residence halls to the outside recycling areas. Dining hall service staff will recycle from their operations. Recyclables are picked up by Athens-Hocking Recycling Center, OU’s recycling and trash collection vender. Athens-Hocking recycling workers will weigh their trucks at OU’s truck scales located at the heating plant prior to collecting recyclables at residence halls, dining halls and on-campus apartments. After finishing their collection route they will weigh their trucks again and calculate the tare weight. The weights will be given to Ed Newman, OU’s Recycling Manager. As with Miami, weights will be calculated to reflect pounds recycled per student living on-campus. According to OU’s department of housing there is approximately 7529 students living on-campus as of January 1, 2002. This number will be used to calculate pounds recycled per student.