School Name:

University of Connecticut

Location:

Storrs, CT, Connecticut

School RecycleMania or Recycling Web Site:

http://www.ecohusky.uconn.edu/...

Spring Break Dates:

Week of Mar 8 - 12

School Athletic Conference:

Big East

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.
• Replacing paper documents with online alternatives wherever possible (e.g. telephone directories, course catalogs, room selection, bill payment, grade distribution, etc.) .
• Active program to reduce unwanted bulk mail from off-campus sources (e.g. creating an opt-out registry for staff and faculty; housing mail room send out bulk mail removal postcards on behalf of former residents, encouraging the cancellation of unnecessary or duplicate subscriptions etc.).
• Promoting the use of printer settings and paper reduction software (e.g. GreenPrint).
• Offering reusable dinnerware and utensils in all sit-down dining facilities.
• 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.).
• Promote reduction of food waste by giving incentiv

Whole Campus

Partial Campus

Number of FTE Students:

21,921

Number of FTE Staff and Faculty:

4,459

Full-time Equivalent Campus Population: 26,380.00

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 Not Sure.

WilliWaste, the waste disposal company that works with the university, will be providing us with the numbers weekly, and then we will be reporting those to you in the correct format.