RecycleMania is a 10-week contest that challenges colleges and universities across America to promote waste reduction on their campuses. Boston College has been involved with RecycleMaina since 2005. This year, BC came in first in the ACC and third in Massachusetts with a cumulative recycling rate of 42 percent!

For more information, check out the Heights article "RecycleMania Comes to BC."

NRG Games — Ever to Conserve

The campus-wide NRG Games, running throughout the month of February, encourage each residence hall to compete to conserve the most energy. Significant energy reductions have been witnessed during this time period, illustrating that students can do their part to help the environment simply by turning off some lights, taking a shorter shower, or lowering the heat.

For more information on the NRG Games, click here.

For more energy-saving tips, including things you can do in your dorm, see the Conserving Energy page in our What You Can Do section.