| Overall Rating | Gold - expired |
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| Overall Score | 65.09 |
| Liaison | Matthew Liesch |
| Submission Date | Oct. 15, 2020 |
Central Michigan University
EN-5: Outreach Campaign
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
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4.00 / 4.00 |
A.T.
Miller Vice President and CDO President's Division |
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Has the institution held a sustainability-related outreach campaign during the previous three years that was directed at students and yielded measurable, positive results in advancing sustainability?:
Yes
Has the institution held a sustainability-related outreach campaign during the previous three years that was directed at employees and yielded measurable, positive results in advancing sustainability?:
Yes
1st campaign
RecycleMania
A brief description of the campaign:
Recycle Mania is an international recycling competition for higher education facilities across the United States and Canada. Their website Reads:
"RecycleMania Mission: Using fair and friendly competition, RecycleMania provides tools and opportunities that inspire, empower, and mobilize colleges and universities to benchmark and improve efforts to reduce or eliminate waste.
RecycleMania is a friendly competition and benchmarking tool for college and university recycling programs to promote waste reduction activities to their campus communities. Over an 8-week period each spring, colleges across the United States and Canada report the amount of recycling and trash collected each week and are in turn ranked in various categories based on who recycles the most on a per capita basis, as well as which schools have the best recycling rate as a percentage of total waste and which schools generate the least amount of combined trash and recycling. With each week’s updated ranking, participating schools follow their performance against other colleges and use the results to rally their campus to reduce and recycle more.
National recognition is provided to the winning school in each category on the RecycleMania website and in a national press release. Winning schools receive an award made out of recyclable materials, and win the right to host that category’s special traveling trophy for the coming year.
Overall Goals for RecycleMania:
1. Motivate students and staff to increase recycling efforts and reduce waste generation.
2. Generate attention and support for campus recycling programs.
3. Encourage colleges to measure and benchmark recycling activity in their effort to improve their programs over time.
4. Have a fair and friendly competition."
Each year, students, staff and faculty are encouraged to participate in additional recycling efforts through campus signage, public announcements, faculty and staff announcements, as well as word of mouth outreach around campus.
"RecycleMania Mission: Using fair and friendly competition, RecycleMania provides tools and opportunities that inspire, empower, and mobilize colleges and universities to benchmark and improve efforts to reduce or eliminate waste.
RecycleMania is a friendly competition and benchmarking tool for college and university recycling programs to promote waste reduction activities to their campus communities. Over an 8-week period each spring, colleges across the United States and Canada report the amount of recycling and trash collected each week and are in turn ranked in various categories based on who recycles the most on a per capita basis, as well as which schools have the best recycling rate as a percentage of total waste and which schools generate the least amount of combined trash and recycling. With each week’s updated ranking, participating schools follow their performance against other colleges and use the results to rally their campus to reduce and recycle more.
National recognition is provided to the winning school in each category on the RecycleMania website and in a national press release. Winning schools receive an award made out of recyclable materials, and win the right to host that category’s special traveling trophy for the coming year.
Overall Goals for RecycleMania:
1. Motivate students and staff to increase recycling efforts and reduce waste generation.
2. Generate attention and support for campus recycling programs.
3. Encourage colleges to measure and benchmark recycling activity in their effort to improve their programs over time.
4. Have a fair and friendly competition."
Each year, students, staff and faculty are encouraged to participate in additional recycling efforts through campus signage, public announcements, faculty and staff announcements, as well as word of mouth outreach around campus.
A brief description of the measured positive impact(s) of the campaign:
Since Central Michigan University's first year participating in Recycle Mania, recycling numbers have steadily increased and, for the 2016 competition, recycling, as well as composting weights reached an all time high for the University.
RecycleMania is a campus-wide collaboration, which enables students, staff and faculty to learn and participate in recycling. RecycleMania happens annually, but over the years, it's made recycling a norm on campus, with marked bins in all campus buildings.
RecycleMania is a campus-wide collaboration, which enables students, staff and faculty to learn and participate in recycling. RecycleMania happens annually, but over the years, it's made recycling a norm on campus, with marked bins in all campus buildings.
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2nd campaign
Food Reduction Challenge
A brief description of the campaign (2nd campaign):
The Food Recovery Challenge is a program governed by the Environmental Protection Agency designed to encourage and assist facilities in establishing baseline food waste data, set goals in reduction, take action in reduction as well as track and evaluate progress in that regard.
Students, staff and faculty are encouraged to participate in additional food waste reduction efforts through campus signage, public announcements, faculty and staff announcements, as well as word of mouth outreach around campus.
Students, staff and faculty are encouraged to participate in additional food waste reduction efforts through campus signage, public announcements, faculty and staff announcements, as well as word of mouth outreach around campus.
A brief description of the measured positive impact(s) of the campaign (2nd campaign):
Central Michigan University received yet another award for the Food Waste Reduction Challenge in 2016. Goals set and achieved in 2015, resulted in this award. CMU has obtained two consecutive Food Recovery Challenge awards as the Region 5 winners and is currently working towards a third award for the 2016 fiscal year, to be awarded in 2017.
CMU has received the EPA’s Midwest Region Food Recovery Challenge award every year from 2014 to 2017 for its continual dedication to waste prevention and food recovery. It offers campus-wide collaboration and education on composting and food waste reduction for students, staff, and faculty.
CMU has received the EPA’s Midwest Region Food Recovery Challenge award every year from 2014 to 2017 for its continual dedication to waste prevention and food recovery. It offers campus-wide collaboration and education on composting and food waste reduction for students, staff, and faculty.
Optional Fields
Please see EN-1 for more sustainability-related outreach campaigns.
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