Every year, over 600
colleges in the United States and Canada participate in the annual Recyclemania Tournament. And this year, Central New Mexico Community College
is the only entry in the state of New Mexico, competing against colleges from
all around North America.
Starting February 2 and
lasting 2 months, all of the recycled material collected by CNM locations will
be weighed by waste management and tallied up.
You can learn more about
RecycleMania at www.recyclemaniacs.org:
“We decided to partner with
faculty and Service Learning to
offer the RecycleMania Tournament as a great Service Learning option for the
Spring term and to become more systemic in our sustainability efforts as we
move forward,” said Luis Campos, executive director of the Physical Plant.
“We’re hopeful that RecycleMania will help our students, faculty and staff get
even more excited about the impact they can have on protecting the environment
and increasing sustainability. And RecycleMania will provide benchmarks for our
recycling efforts, but this is only the start of a larger effort.”
“I think Mount Trashmore
will be a great learning experience for everybody,” Campos said. “We are doing
well with recycling on our campuses, but there are a lot of recyclables that
end up in our trash. We hope that this event will bring awareness to that issue
and motivate our students, faculty and staff to be even more diligent about
what can and should be recycled.”
And halfway through the
competition, one entire day’s worth of trash from CNM’s main campus will be
piled in the parking lot, creating a “Mount Trashmore” that students will sort
through, separating recyclables from waste.
For more information, please
contact Asa Stone at astone10@cnm.edu, Sharon Gordon-Moffett at sgordon@cnm.edu
or Luis Campos at lcampos@cnm.edu.
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