YSU charts course toward recycling honor
YOUNGSTOWN — Youngstown State University finished 18th out of 77 colleges and universities involved in the grand champion phase of the collegiate RecycleMania competition last year.
Dan Kuzma, manager of YSU’s recycling and reuse program, thinks the university can do better this year in the 10-week event designed to boost recycling efforts across the country. He believes YSU has a shot at placing first in the state and the nation.
The grand champion is the school that, based on overall results, demonstrates the greatest achievement in both source reduction and recycling.
The 2008 version of RecycleMania began in late January and has 400 colleges and universities involved at various categories of competition.
Schools compete in different contests to see which institution can collect the largest amount of recyclables, the least amount of trash and have the highest recycling rate. The university that recycles the most wins.
“We’re doing pretty good,” Kuzma said last week.
YSU was the No. 1 Ohio school in the grand champion category in the early stages of the this year’s contest and is running 23rd out of 72 schools nationally, maintaining a 31.5 percent recycling rate, he said.
Some of the other schools competing are Ohio State University, Ohio University, Miami University, Bowling Green, Harvard, Yale, Duke and Boston College. The competition runs through April 6.
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