School Name:

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Location:

Madison, Wisconsin

School RecycleMania or Recycling Web Site:

http://www.conserve.wisc.edu...

Spring Break Dates:

Week of Mar 29 - Apr 2

School Athletic Conference:

Big Ten

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.
• Establishing post-consumer waste and biodegradable dinnerware composting program.
• Creating and promoting a system for the campus community to report wasteful practices and offer suggestions for waste reduction.

Whole Campus

Partial Campus

Number of FTE Students:

38,760

Number of FTE Staff and Faculty:

13,541

Number of Hospital Staff:

0

Full-time Equivalent Campus Population: 52,301.00

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 Actual Weights.

Waste and recycling is picked up by are waste and recycling group weighed and disposed of much like a community would run.