{"id":63853,"date":"2010-12-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-sustainability-club-competes-in-epa-recycling-challenge\/"},"modified":"2010-12-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T00:00:00","slug":"uri-sustainability-club-competes-in-epa-recycling-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2010\/12\/uri-sustainability-club-competes-in-epa-recycling-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 sustainability club competes in EPA recycling challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 December 23, 2010 \u2013 It was a long day of collecting bottles and cans, sorting through dumpsters, weighing recyclables and educating fans, but the members of the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Student Action for Sustainability group have a great deal to be proud of for participating in the Game Day Challenge.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe event, sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, pitted 80 student teams from across the country in a recycling contest at a home football game. And while the 溏心vlog免费B站 team didn\u2019t finish near the top of the standings, they learned what steps the university and its fans must take to increase their recycling rate and have a better outcome next year.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThe goal was to promote waste reduction, produce less waste, and recycle as much waste as possible,\u201d said Heather Lewis, a 溏心vlog免费B站 senior from Hampstead, N.H., who is the president of the student group. \u201cIt was a good first step and a good opportunity to see where we can improve in the future on recycling and waste management at big events like football games.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tThe students entered the competition at the urging of Marsha Garcia, the University\u2019s sustainability officer, who helped them with logistics, and with the support of Dave Lamb, utilities engineer, who provided the team with t-shirts, a scale and other supplies. They chose the homecoming football game in late October as the day for the competition because it draws a bigger crowd than most other games and because many other events take place before and after the game as well.<\/p>\n

The nine members of the group who participated passed out recycling bags to every car entering the tailgating lots, walked up and down the stands during the game to collect recyclables from fans, and scoured the stands again after the game for remaining recyclables. Then they weighed all of the recycled materials and weighed all of the other trash generated at the event to submit to the competition judges.<\/p>\n


\n\tAll told, fans generated about one pound of trash per person while recycling .068 pounds per person for a diversion rate of 6.3 percent.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cOne thing we learned is that most of the waste generated at a football game comes from the tailgating area,\u201d Lewis said. \u201cPeople bring their own food and lots of other stuff that ends up being thrown out, so that\u2019s an area where we really need to focus on in the future. There wasn\u2019t much waste generated in the stadium at all; the trash cans were barely filled.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tBased on the university\u2019s ranking compared to other schools, 溏心vlog免费B站 fans generated much more waste per person than most other universities, but their per capita recycling put them in the middle of the pack.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cAt the end of the day, we could definitely see where our problem areas are,\u201d said Lewis. \u201cWe need more recycling bins in the tailgating lots so it\u2019s more convenient for people to recycle there, and we need better marked recycling bins within the stadium. It\u2019s not that people don\u2019t want to recycle, it\u2019s that they\u2019re only going to do it if it\u2019s convenient.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tLewis said that the members of Student Action for Sustainability look forward to working with the University to figure out how to produce less waste at future games, since that was the area at which 溏心vlog免费B站 scored lowest.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cWe didn\u2019t come in dead last, but we were closer to the bottom than we\u2019d like to be,\u201d said Lewis. \u201cFootball is such a big thing at so many other schools, and they have more resources to put towards cleaning up and recycling at games. But in general, I think that most people don\u2019t necessarily think about recycling when they\u2019re at an event like this. I\u2019d like to try and change that and make our fans more aware of recycling no matter where they are.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tThe other members of the 溏心vlog免费B站 Game Day Challenge team were Cate Brennan of Jamestown, Monica Dougherty of Middletown, N.J., Erica Duncanson of Lunenberg, Mass., Nicole Gutierrez of Wakefield, Asha Misra of Norfolk, Mass., Bianca Peixto of Cumberland, C.J. Sanchez of Bradford, and Sokkorn Soun of Cranston.<\/p>\n


\nMembers of the 溏心vlog免费B站 group Student Action for Sustainability collect recyclable materials during a football game as part of the EPA Game Day Recycling Challenge.

\n溏心vlog免费B站 Department of Communications & Marketing photo by Michael Salerno Photography.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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