Take a look at how we're doing in RecycleMania compared to our fellow Maryland competitors!

Here are our numbers (in pounds) from this past week. We need to get those waste numbers down and our recycling numbers up so let's get recycling!  To get involved, email recycle@umbc.edu :

Bottles and cans – 6400

Corrugated cardboard – 4600

Paper -750

Food waste – 540

Trash/landfill - 56900

University of Maryland - Baltimore County

Place - 137

*lbs/person - 2.476

Cumulative Greenhouse gas reductions - 103 Metric Tons of CO2 Equivalent(20 cars off the road, or the energy consumption of 9 houses)

Johns Hopkins University

Place - 84

*lbs/person - 3.453

Cumulative Greenhouse gas reductions - 185 Metric Tons of CO2 Equivalent(36 cars off the road, or the energy consumption of 16 houses)

Frostburg

Place - 86

*lbs/person - 3.426

Cumulative Greenhouse gas reductions - 60 Metric Tons of CO2 Equivalent(12 cars off the road, or the energy consumption of 5 houses)

Towson University

Place - 93

*lbs/person - 3.390

Cumulative Greenhouse gas reductions - 104 Metric Tons of CO2 Equivalent(20 cars off the road, or the energy consumption of 9 houses)

University of Maryland - College Park

Place - 95

*lbs/person - 3.353

Cumulative Greenhouse gas reductions - 375 Metric Tons of CO2 Equivalent (74 cars off the road, or the energy consumption of 32 houses)

Harford Community College

Place - 261

*lbs/person - 0.649

Cumulative Greenhouse gas reductions - 20 Metric Tons of CO2 Equivalent (4 cars off the road, or the energy consumption of 2 households)

 * These rates are the Per Capita Classic: In this category schools compete to see which can collect the largest