School Name:

Stanford University

Location:

Stanford, California

School RecycleMania or Recycling Web Site:

http://recycling.stanford.edu...

Spring Break Dates:

Week of Mar 22 - 26

School Athletic Conference:

Pac-10

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:

• Purchasing office equipment with waste prevention in mind (e.g. electronic interface, double-sided capabilities; sourcing and purchasing for durability, etc.)
• 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:

15,705

Number of FTE Staff and Faculty:

11,832

Number of Hospital Staff:

0

Full-time Equivalent Campus Population: 27,537.00

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.

Bottles and cans and food waste are weighed on our in-ground scale while trash, mixed paper, and cardboard are based on weight tickets that we receive from our landfill and paper vendors respectively.