The Flint College Town Recycling Challenge

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Flint’s four major colleges will be spending the next several weeks trying to determine who is Flint’s Recycling Champion?

As part of an Earth Day observance program, students, faculty, and staff at each school are being asked to bring items for recycling to campus. A large recycling trailer/dumpster will move from school to school spending a week at each location.


Flint's four major colleges will be spending the next several weeks trying to determine who is Flint's Recycling Champion?

As part of an Earth Day observance program, students, faculty, and staff at each school are being asked to bring items for recycling to campus. A large recycling trailer/dumpster will move from school to school spending a week at each location.


Kettering had the collection dumpster for the first week of the eight week competition:

Kettering:
March 1-7
April 19-23


UM-Flint:
March 8-14
March 29-April 4

Baker:
March 15-21
April 5- 11

MCC:
March 22-28
April 12-18

All materials must be sorted into the trailer/dumpster bins.

The winner will be the school that has the greatest pounds of acceptable items per student.

The Winner will take all the proceeds from all the recycling efforts collected from each of the participating campuses and can use the money to promote recycling.

The winning school will be announced Saturday, April 24 at the Earth Day Celebration to be held at UM-Flint in the University Center.

For additional information contact: call 810-766-6763, email [email protected] or download PDF: http://www.umflint.edu/ehs/documents/Recycling%20Challenge%20Poster%20030210.pdf

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