School Name:

North Lake College

Location:

Irving, Texas

School RecycleMania or Recycling Web Site:

http://www.northlakecollege.ed...

Spring Break Dates:

Week of Mar 15 - 19

School Athletic Conference:

NCJAA - Division III, Metro 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:

• 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.
• 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:

5,522

Number of FTE Staff and Faculty:

605

Full-time Equivalent Campus Population: 6,127.00

For the 2010 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 methodology for weighing recycled materials will be to utilize our collection service. They provide us a total weight for plastic bottles, aluminum cans, paper and corrugated cardboard. We will also validate their weights by counting the number of containers picked up and estimate the weight using the volume-to-weight conversion chart. Our methodology for weighing solid waste will be to have our custodial services provider count all bags going into the trash containers each week. We will weigh trash bags prior to the competition to determine the average weight of a trash bag. We will continue to confirm our average weight per bag by periodically weighing the bags.