{"id":13,"date":"2011-01-27T14:49:04","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T20:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/sustainability\/?p=13"},"modified":"2011-01-27T14:49:04","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T20:49:04","slug":"recyclemania-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/sustainability\/2011\/01\/27\/recyclemania-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"RecycleMania 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone!<\/p>\n<p>Been awhile&#8230; lots of exciting things in the works in the Sustainability Office, but first and foremost&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>ARE YOU READY TO RECYCLE????<\/p>\n<p>RecycleMania 2011 is about to kick off and UW-Whitewater enters our third year of participation. \u00a0In 2009 we saw a recycling rate of 28.7%, which scored us third among Wisconsin schools competing in the Competition Division (more strict measurement requirements than the Benchmark Division). \u00a0Last year we managed to improve to 29.14%, but our state competition heated up and we finished in sixth place among Competition Division schools. \u00a0It&#8217;s time to step up our game too!<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s not forget, we also have a great competition going in the residence halls! \u00a0In 2009, Clem\/Bigelow won the competition with an easy margin over second place Arey\/Benson and third place Wellers\/Knilans. \u00a0In 2010, Arey\/Benson struck back and stole the crown from second place Clem\/Bigelow with Tutt\/Fischer\/Goodhue coming in a strong third. \u00a0<strong>It&#8217;s not only what you recycle, but also what you manage to not throw away<\/strong>, so remember to donate used clothing or unused non-perishable food items. \u00a0The <a title=\"Whitewater Clothes Closet\" href=\"http:\/\/richmondumc-wi.homestead.com\/ministries-WWClothesCloset.html\" target=\"_blank\">Whitewater Clothes Closet<\/a> and <a title=\"Whitewater Food Pantry\" href=\"http:\/\/richmondumc-wi.homestead.com\/ministries-WWFoodPantry.html\" target=\"_blank\">Whitewater Food Pantry<\/a> are always looking for donations!<\/p>\n<p>RecycleMania kicks off February 6th. \u00a0Just do your part and toss your <a title=\"Accepted Recyclable Materials\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/sustainability\/waste\/whatcanirecycle.html\" target=\"_blank\">Accepted Recyclable Materials<\/a> in the proper receptacles. \u00a0If you have any questions, just contact your friendly neighborhood Sustainability Coordinator at sustainability (at) uww.edu or hit me up on <a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Sustainability-at-UW-Whitewater\/146088912101933\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>. \u00a0Go forth and RECYCLE Warhawks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone! Been awhile&#8230; lots of exciting things in the works in the Sustainability Office, but first and foremost&#8230; ARE YOU READY TO RECYCLE???? RecycleMania 2011 is about to kick off and UW-Whitewater enters our third year of participation. \u00a0In 2009 we saw a recycling rate of 28.7%, which scored us third among Wisconsin schools &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/sustainability\/2011\/01\/27\/recyclemania-2011\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RecycleMania 2011<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[955],"tags":[10400,2444,10399,10398,10407,10403,10402],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recycling","tag-clothing-donations","tag-donations","tag-food-donations","tag-recyclemania","tag-recycling","tag-whitewater-clothes-closet","tag-whitewater-food-pantry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}