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Every spring ODU participates in an intercollegiate recycling competition called RecycleMania. RecycleMania is a friendly competition among college and university recycling programs in North America and Canada and benchmarking tool for college and university recycling programs to promote waste reduction activities to their campus communities. Over a 10-week period, schools report recycling and trash data which are then ranked according to who collects the largest amount of recyclables per capita, the largest amount of total recyclables, the least amount of trash per capita, or have the highest recycling rate. With each week's reports and rankings, participating schools watch how their results fluctuate against other schools and use this to rally their campus communities to reduce and recycle more. This year's competition runs from January 22nd to March 31st 2012.

For more information on RecycleMania check out their website: http://www.recyclemaniacs.org 

RecycleMania Results at a Glance -

2010 – 8 Weeks – 126,619 lbs. – Rank Standing 139/346.
2011 – 8 Weeks – 140,236 lbs. – Rank Standing 126/363 – 10.75 % increase to previous year 2010.
2012 – 8 Weeks – 196,682 lbs. – Rank Standing 90/296 – 40.25 % increase to previous year 2011.