GREETINGS
FROM BRIAN WORMWOOD
UCF
Recycles! Housekeeping and Recycling Services, a unit of Facilities
Operations in the Facilities and Safety building #16A, is the
collection arm of the recycling effort here on the UCF campus. Many
Housekeepers and Recyclers on both the day and evening shifts work
very hard to move recyclable materials out of the waste stream into
the recycling stream.
It has
been a great year for our recycling program! Thanks to the help of many
including the efforts of the Student Sustainability Alliance and their
green program at the football games we have improved our football
GameDay recycling rate to a season high of 26%. We have switched many
of our construction and debris waste roll-offs to recycling roll-offs,
saving thousands of dollars and increasing our recycling rate up to 25%,
hopefully ending around 30% at the end of the fiscal year 2009-2010. We
continue to participate in the nation-wide RecycleMania contest and
hopefully will see improvements over our standings in 2009. Our
partners in recycling are encouraging us with their efforts and
participation on our behalf, departments like Business Services,
Athletics and the Student Government Association continue to be great
supporters of the cause! Residential Life has started a green building
and we continue to develop new recycling efforts with the support of Res
Life and will continue to see an increase in the materials recycled by
students living in our residential halls.
The
University’s current recycling rate is 25%. The State of Florida has
mandated that all government and state buildings maintain a 30%
recycling rate – we have a way to go and I believe we can accomplish a
30% rate this year! During the fiscal year 2007-2008 our rate was
12.97%, 2008-2009 was 17.04%, we continue to grow. We recycled
1,367,320 pounds of material – but we threw away 6,655,360 pounds of
material into the land fill as trash in 2008-2009. You may not know
this, but 60% to 70% of all trash is probably recyclable material – we
have a long way to go UCF, so please do your part and recycle! If you
would like more information on how to recycle or to set up a program in
your area, please see the Contact Us information on this page.
UCF Recycles!
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