School Name:

University of California-San Diego

Location:

La Jolla, CA, California

School RecycleMania or Recycling Web Site:

Spring Break Dates:

Week of Mar 22 - 26

School Athletic Conference:

Division 2

Public or Private School:

Public

Divisions

Competition Division

Benchmark Division

Categories

Schools are automatically ranked in those categories for which they provide data with each week's reporting form.

Waste Minimization

As part of its involvement in the Waste Minimization category, this school is pledging to implement the following waste reduction practices on its campus:

• Active program to sell or donate campus surplus property.
• Promoting inter-office reusable envelopes for campus mail and review/improve campus systems for reclaiming extra envelopes for reuse.
• Replacing paper documents with online alternatives wherever possible (e.g. telephone directories, course catalogs, room selection, bill payment, grade distribution, etc.) .
• Implementing campus printing initiatives which prohibit or discourage unlimited printing in computer labs and copy rooms (e.g. pay-per sheet pricing, etc.).
• Offering discounts or other incentives for using reusable mugs in campus dining operations.

Whole Campus

Partial Campus

Number of FTE Students:

27,008

Number of FTE Staff and Faculty:

11,247

Full-time Equivalent Campus Population: 38,255.00

For the 2009 competition, schools that participate in the Competition Division will have their FTE population calculated using standardized data submitted to the federal Department of Education's IPEDS program. This is the number by which reported weights will be divided to determine per capita recycling weights. For more information about the FTE calculations, refer to the IPEDS section of the Rules page.

Data reported will come from Actual Weights.

hauler provides weight reports weekly, borken down to the diffrent material type. The breakdown according to material type is based on an allocation study