Dive summary:

• More than 90 million pounds of recyclable materials were collected in two months by 532 colleges and universities across the U.S. for RecycleMania.
• RecycleMania is a nationwide competition that encourages students to recycle and brings attention and sometimes resources to campus recycling programs.
• During the program, most schools saw a small rise in recycling rates; in 2011, the recycling rate for participating schools went from 24.4% to 27.8%.

From the article:

Schools are ranked according to how much recycling, trash and food waste they collect. During this 13th annual event, updated weekly rankings allowed schools to track their performance in eight categories – measuring their recycling rate; overall recycling by weight; lowest amount of total waste; and per capita recovery for paper, cardboard, cans and bottles, and food waste. Colleges also participated in several special categories targeting electronics and film plastics, as well as the Game Day: Basketball category, which ranked schools based on recyclables collected at a single home basketball game. ...