School Name:

Washington State University

Location:

Pullman, Wa. , Washington

School RecycleMania or Recycling Web Site:

Spring Break Dates:

Week of Mar 15 - 19

School Athletic Conference:

Pac 10

Public or Private School:

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.
• Replacing paper documents with online alternatives wherever possible (e.g. telephone directories, course catalogs, room selection, bill payment, grade distribution, etc.) .
• Establishing post-consumer waste and biodegradable dinnerware composting program.

Whole Campus

Partial Campus

Number of FTE Students:

22,677

Number of FTE Staff and Faculty:

5,711

Number of Hospital Staff:

0

Full-time Equivalent Campus Population: 28,388.00

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.

Track landfill invoices and recycle based on baling log sheets and weights.