School Name:

Eastern Mennonite University

Location:

Harrisonburg, Virginia

School RecycleMania or Recycling Web Site:

http://www.emu.edu/recycle...

Spring Break Dates:

Weeks of Mar 8 - 19

School Athletic Conference:

Old Dominion Althetic Conference

Public or Private School:

Private

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:

• Promoting inter-office reusable envelopes for campus mail and review/improve campus systems for reclaiming extra envelopes for reuse.
• Implementing campus printing initiatives which prohibit or discourage unlimited printing in computer labs and copy rooms (e.g. pay-per sheet pricing, etc.).
• Offering reusable dinnerware and utensils in all sit-down dining facilities.

Whole Campus

Partial Campus

Number of FTE Students:

1,193

Number of FTE Staff and Faculty:

318

Full-time Equivalent Campus Population: 1,511.00

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.

Bottles and Cans are actual weights from buyer. Paper and Cardboard are estimates from actual weights (they are in gaylords and loaded together in one trailer). Food waste is actual weights.