School Name:

Portland State University

Location:

Portland, Oregon

School RecycleMania or Recycling Web Site:

http://www.recycle.pdx.edu...

Spring Break Dates:

Weeks of Mar 15 - 26

School Athletic Conference:

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:

• Creating an office supplies exchange program on campus.
• Establishing post-consumer waste and biodegradable dinnerware composting program.
• Creating active program to educate employee and students about waste minimization practices (e.g. incorporating waste minimization information into new employee / new student orientation programs; giving regular presentations to campus groups and departments; setting up public displays, etc.).

Whole Campus

Partial Campus

Number of FTE Students:

19,563

Number of FTE Staff and Faculty:

2,229

Number of Hospital Staff:

0

Full-time Equivalent Campus Population: 21,792.00

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 Some Weights / Some Estimates.

Our trash/recycling hauler provides a spreadsheet of the weights both estimated and weighed for each week during the competition. They have been our service provider throughout the history of Recyclemania at PSU.