When the final numbers of Recyclemania, which ended on April 1, were released, the residents of Salice-Conley Hall, Martyr’s Court and Alumni South came out ahead of all other residence halls in the categories of most glass, metal and plastic, most paper and cardboard, and least trash, respectively.

The three residence halls are clumped together in the northwest corner of the Rose Hill campus. In the third annual, six-week long Recyclemania challenge, Salice-Conley Hall beat out the competition by recycling 6.09 pounds of glass, metal and plastic per person, beating Martyr’s Court’s second place finish of 5.37 pounds per person. Both bested Alumni South, which recycled a measly 2.47 pounds per person.

For paper and cardboard, the situation was reversed, as Martyr’s Court’s 6.57 pounds per person beat Salice-Conley’s 5.88 pounds per person. Alumni South again was near the bottom of this category, with 2.87 pounds per person. Only Lincoln Center’s McMahon Hall recycled less paper and cardboard, 2.77 pounds per person.

On the bright side, Alumni South generated the least amount of trash of any residence hall on the Rose Hill campus, 24.91 pounds per person, just squeaking by Loschert Hall’s 24.94 pounds per person. McMahon Hall maintained its traditional lead in this category, with just 15.61 pounds per person.

Perhaps owing to its status as one of the largest residence halls on the Rose Hill campus, Martyr’s Court also managed to also generate far and away the most trash, a whopping 48.62 pounds per person. The next closest was O’Hare Hall, on the other side of campus, where residents generated 40.38 pounds per person. Nothing, it seems, is done on a small scale at the court, which is named for the Jesuit martyrs Isaac Jogues, John LaLande, and Rene Goupil.

As with the past two years, Fordham participated in the “benchmark” division of the competition, and as such, was not ranked against other universities. According to statistics compiled by Great Forest, the University’s residence halls generated 7.043 pounds of recyclables per capita and had a nearly 20% recycling rate, up from last year’s 18.86%.

According to Recyclemania, that translates into 87 metric tons of CO2 Equivalent, or 17 cars off the road, or the energy consumption of eight households.

For more information about Recyclemania, visit http://recyclemaniacs.org.

According to results released on Tuesday, March 19 by consultant Wake Forest, Campbell Hall residents knocked next door neighbors Salice-Conley Hall out of the top spot in the glass/metal/plastic category, which it had occupied for four weeks.

Lincoln Center’s McMahon Hall continues to generate the least amount of trash of anyone, a mere 1.37 pounds per person.

Rose Hill’s Tierney Hall generated the least amount of trash on campus, 2.18 pounds per person. That was tempered by the fact that the building also recycled the least amount of glass metal and plastic, .6 pounds per person. Only three residence halls collected less paper and plastic than Tierney, which at 152 residents is the second smallest on campus.

As for the top garbage generator, the folks in Martyr’s Court took top billing, with a whopping 4.45 pounds of trash per person. Nearby Queens Court gave them a run for the money, with 3.81 pounds per person, but apparently Martyr’s folks know garbage. Might want to take a tip form the folks over in Campbell guys!

Recyclemania continues through April 1. For more information, visitrecyclemania.com

According to results released on Thursday, March 8 by consultant Wake Forest, Rose Hill’s Walsh Hall and Salice-Conley Hall lead the pack in the categories of most paper and cardboard and most glass, metal and plastic, respectively.

According to data compiled Sunday, March 4, Rose Hill’s Alumni South currently holds the title for the least amount of trash generated per person. Lincoln Center’s McMahon Hall won that category in last years’ challenge and lead in the category in the beginning this year, but Alumni South’s 3.72 pounds per person easily bested McMahon’s 5.82 pounds per person count.

When it comes to glass, metal and plastic, Salice-Conley Hall continues to outshine everyone, with 1.06 pounds per person. Tierney Hall, which was tied with Salice-Conley at week three, dropped to dead last, with .30 pounds per person. Tierney Hall also gave up its lead in the paper and cardboard category to Walsh Hall, which recycled an average of .95 pounds per resident.

Recyclemania continues through March 31. For more information, visit recyclemania.com.

—Patrick Verel

According to results released on Sunday, Feb. 5 by consultant Wake Forest, Rose Hill’s Tierney Hall and Salice-Conley Hall and Lincoln Center’s McMahon Hall lead the pack in the categories of most paper and cardboard, most glass, metal and plastic, and least amount of trash per person, respectfully.

Reflecting the differences between the two campuses, Walsh Hall’s 1.92 pounds of trash per person count was far less than any amount recorded at Rose Hill. The students there who kept the most trash out of the garbage stream was Alumni South, at 3.63 pounds per person. On the opposite end of the spectrum was Martyr’s Court, which generated 6.54 pounds of trash per person.

On the paper and cardboard front, the residents of Tierney Hall have recycled 2.30 pounds per person, way ahead of the next best total, Walsh Hall’s 1.18 pounds. McMahon Hall currently has the last spot, with a mere .29 pounds per person.

Like Tierney, the residents of Salice-Conley are outshining their peers, as their 1.06 pounds per person haul of glass, metal and plastic tops next door neighbor Campbell Hall, at .80 pounds per person. Alumni South currently occupies last place, with .24 pounds per person.

Recyclemania continues through March 31. For more information, visit recyclemania.com.

—Patrick Verel

Students who live in the 10 residence halls at Rose Hill and McMahon Hall at Lincoln Center will again compete against each other in RecycleMania, a nationwide recycling competition that began on Jan. 22.

The contest, which runs through March 31, measures the amount of paper, cardboard, glass, metal and plastic the residents of each building collect, as well as how little solid waste they generate. The event seeks to increase recycling on campuses and highlight the work done by universities’ sustainability programs.

Last year was the first year that Fordham participated in the contest, which began in 2001 and has grown to include 576 schools. As in the past, the University will be competing in the “benchmark” division of the competition. Although Fordham will not be directly competing with other schools, the individual dorms on campus will be ranked against each other.

Weekly updates will be issued by sustainability consultant Great Forest and sent to the residence halls weekly so students can track their progress. At the end of the competition, the winning dorm will receive a trophy, along with the satisfaction that they’re the greenest of all.

The competition, which runs through March 31, will once again measure the amount of paper, cardboard glass, metal and plastic the members of each building collects, as well as how little solid waste they generate. The event seeks to increase recycling on campuses and highlight the work done by universities’ sustainability programs.

Last year was the first year the University participated in the contest, which began in 2001 and has grown to include 576 schools. As in the past, Fordham will be competing in the “benchmark” division of the competition. Although the University will not be directly competing with other schools, the individual dorms on campus will be ranked against each other.

Weekly updates will be issued by sustainability consultant Great Forest and sent to the residence halls weekly so students can track their progress. At the end of the competition, the winning dorm will receive a trophy, along with the satisfaction that they’re greener than them all.

For more information, visit recyclemania.com.

Queens Court, the three-building complex comprised of St. John’s, St. Robert’s and Bishop’s Halls on Fordham’s Rose Hill campus, beat ten other residence halls at Rose Hill and Lincoln Center in the University’s first RecycleMania contest.

The ten-week long national competition wrapped up last week, and when the final numbers were tabulated, Queens Court had recycled both the most paper and cardboard at 35.93 pounds per person, and the most glass, metal and plastic, at 42.22 pounds per person.

McMahon Hall, the lone residence hall at Lincoln Center campus, took home first prize for an achievement of the opposite sort: Residents there generated the least amount of trash generated over all, at 84.15 pounds per person.

This is the first year Fordham participated in the contest, in the informal “Benchmark” division. Rounding out the rest of the results were:

Paper/cardboard:

1. Queens Court: 35.93 pounds per person, or 4,850 pounds total

2. Campbell Hall: 27.51 pounds per person, or 7,570 pounds total

2. Walsh Hall: 26.32 pounds per person, or 10,950 pounds total

Glass/metal/plastic

1. Queens Court: 42.22 pounds per person, or 5,699 pounds total

2. Salice-Conley Hall: 39.13 pounds per person, or 8,765 pounds total

3. Campbell Hall: 38.91 pounds per person, or 8,133 pounds total

Trash

1. McMahon Hall: 84.15 pounds per person, or 74,137 pounds total

2. Loschert Hall: 115.28 pounds per person, or 29,512 pounds total

3. Alumni South: 122.93 pounds per person, or 37,125 pounds total

While the rest of the residence halls were not far behind the leaders, there were some exceptions. Martyr’s Court, for instance, recycled 17.23 pounds of paper and cardboard per person and 22.90 pounds of glass, metal and plastic per person. Those weren’t the lowest numbers for either category—those honors belong to McMahon Hall and Tierney Hall, respectively—but they do help explain another number: 482.11, the number of pounds of trash generated per person there.

Robert Freda, director of the Custodial Services department, said two issues were at play at Martyr’s Court that they would work with the Department of Residential Life to address. Although magnetic signs distributed by RecycleMania were posted around the building, he said student awareness could be improved.

They also need to re-examine the locations of the collection bins in Martyr’s Court. Because some of the closets where trash is collected are not big enough to also accommodate recycling bins, Freda noted that some of the bins had to be placed in lounges instead. That absence of consistency, and not residents’ apathy, was probably the cause of the spike in trash.

“The containers are there for recycling, but we want to make it as easy as we can for students to know where they are,” he said.

All told, the average diversion rate over the past ten weeks for the residence halls was about 22 percent, according to Great Forest, a consulting firm that crunched the numbers for Fordham. So the competition provided a good look at the ratio of trash to recyclables generated overall from the residence halls.

Armed with little more than packing tape and their imaginations, and fueled by pizza and soda, roughly a dozen residents transformed plastic, cardboard and aluminum into, well…maybe we should just let the picture tell the story.

Keep up the great work guys!

For more information, visit http://www.recyclemania.org/

According to statistics compiled weekly, the Rose Hill campus’ Queen’s Court has recycled the most paper and cardboard, at five pounds per person. Nearby Salice-Conley Hall is leading the charge with glass, metal and plastic, at 6.70 pounds per person.

When it comes to keeping trash out of the system though, students at the 10 residence halls in the Bronx have nothing on their Manhattan brethren. Residents of McMahon Hall, which is on the Lincoln Center campus, have generated 9.75 pounds of trash per person.

RecycleMania, an annual contest between colleges around the country to see who can recycle more during an eight-week period, started in 2001 as a competition between Miami University of Ohio and Ohio University, and now features 630 schools.

This is the first year Fordham has participated in the contest, in the informal “Benchmark” division. In both the formal and informal divisions, schools submit weight data for paper, cardboard, cans and bottles, food waste and general trash each week, and are in turn able to see how they measure up against each other.

Since the competition began, a total of 45 tons of material have been collected from Fordham residence halls. The contest runs through April 2, so there is still time left to earn bragging rights as the greenest among them all.

For more information, visit http://www.recyclemania.org/