Get Involved

Students (what you can do):

• Volunteer at the RecycleMania X-Games!

• Individually we make a difference by recycling.

• Recycling a four-foot stack of newspapers saves the equivalent of one 40-foot fir tree.

• every glass bottle recycled saves enough energy to light a 100-watt light bulb for 4 hours.

• Making cans from recycled aluminum saves 95% of the energy required to produce cans from virgin material.

• Americans throw away enough aluminum to rebuild the entire commercial airline fleet every three months.

• The most important thing you can do to help RecycleMania is be a conscientious recycler – every bottle, can, newspaper,and piece of paper… in the correct recycling bin.

• Volunteer! We need your help getting the word out to other students by tabling, making class announcements, putting up posters and chalking. Email Sarah Engel engelse@colorado.edu

• If you live in the residence halls become a RecycleMania Liaison. We’ll provide you with posters for your halls trash cans and dumpsters, bulletin boards, and help you present to your hall council. Email Marcie.cole@colorado.edu

• Enter a team for Recycling X-games, Wednesday March 9th from 11 – 3 pm . Email wallach@colorado.edu

Faculty and Staff (what you can do)

We need to recycle at CU! CU Recycling will help you make your office’s recycling program convenient and efficient, so that every bottle, can, piece of paper and newspaper is recycled.

• Invite CU Recycling staff to your next staff meeting and make sure your office is recycling right! We will provide 5, 10, or 30 minute presentation trainings for your office. Email Amy.kuo@colorado.edu
• Inform us of your recycling needs. Do you need more recycling bins? Are containers missing important labels? Let us know! Email link to Wallach@colorado.edu.