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Boston College often occupies a familiar perch at the top of many national athletic and academic ranking lists – but the University is also the nation’s collegiate leader in per capita recycling, according to recent statistics published by RecycleMania, an association of 605 American and Canadian colleges and universities committed to improving waste reduction activities on their campuses.
RecycleMania is a friendly competition and benchmarking tool that measures each participating school’s recycling efforts over an eight-week period each spring. After three weeks of measurement, members of the BC community are credited for recycling 23.42 pounds of waste materials for each of the University’s combined student and employee population of nearly 16,000 people.
Boston College is currently ranked third in RecycleMania’s “Gorilla Prize” division, which tracks each school’s gross tonnage of combined recycled paper, cardboard, bottles and cans, regardless of campus population size.