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News from Lane Community College
April 24, 2008
LANE TAKES NATIONAL FOURTH IN RECYCLEMAIA COMPETITION
EUGENE - Lane Community College placed fourth best in the nation in waste minimization in RecycleMania, a competition for colleges and universities sponsored by the National Recycling Coalition and the EPA.
Of 95 competitors in its category, Lane generated 26.6 pounds of cumulative waste per person over the 10-week competition. First-place North Lake College of Irving, Texas, generated 12.53 pounds and last-place Allegheny College of Meadville, Pennsylvania, generated 526.31 pounds. Full results are available at http://www.recyclemaniacs.org/viewresult.aspx?CompId=3&isSubsection=False
Lane is an emerging national leader in sustainability and has won five awards in the past two years including the Campus Sustainability Leadership Award from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, and the Outstanding College Recycling Program Award from the National Recycling Coalition.
For more information about recycling at Lane, see http://2011sitearchive.lanecc.edu/recycle/recycle.htm
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PIO: Joan Aschim, (541) 463-5591, aschimj@lanecc.edu
Contact: Mike Sims, Recycling Coordinator, office, 463-5569, cell 870-4069
