Congratulations to all 2024 Campus Race to Zero Waste participants! 

2024 Competition Highlights:

• 2.7 million students, faculty and staff reached
• 150+ college and university participants from 39 U.S. states and Canada
• 30.7 million pounds of waste donated, composted and recycled
• 105 million single-use plastics kept out of the landfill
• Participants prevented the release of 23,174 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent into the atmosphere, which is equal to avoiding the annual emissions from 5,515 cars

2024 Winners:

Diversion Category

• Small campus: Macalester College, Minnesota
  • 2^nd place: Kendall College of Art and Design, Michigan
• Medium campus: Seattle University, Washington
  • 2^nd place: Loyola Marymount University, California
• Large campus: University of Louisville, Kentucky
  • 2^nd place: University of Maryland College Park

Food Organics Category

• Small campus: Aquinas College, Michigan
  • 2^nd place: Bard College, New York
• Medium campus: Loyola Marymount University, California
  • 2^nd place: Endicott College, Massachusetts
• Large campus: Kent State University, Ohio
  • 2^nd place: Stanford University, California

Per Capita Recycling Category

• Small campus: Neumann University, Pennsylvania
  • 2^nd place: Coe College, Iowa
• Medium campus: Loyola Marymount University, California
  • 2^nd place: SUNY Purchase College, New York
  • Honorable Mention: United States Military Academy West Point
• Large campus: Boston College, Massachusetts
  • 2^nd place: Stanford University, California

Zero Waste Category

• Large campus: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

*No small or medium campuses named in this category for the 2024 competition.

GameDay Basketball Category

• Diversion: University of Richmond, Virginia
• Per Capita Recycling: University of the Incarnate Word, Texas

 Race to Zero Waste – One Building Challenge

• Pennsylvania State University

Clean-up Category

• Drexel University, Pennsylvania

Electronics Recycling Category

• Per Capita Recycling: Northwest Missouri State University
• Total Pounds Recycled: Rutgers University, New Jersey

Green Events Category

• Agnes Scott College, Georgia and University of Massachusetts Amherst (under 50 attendees)
• University of Michigan Dearborn and Villanova University, Pennsylvania (under 100 attendees)
• Southern Illinois University Carbondale and University of South Carolina Upstate (under 500 attendees)
• Iowa State University (under 1,000 attendees)
• Coastal Carolina University, South Carolina and University of California, Irvine (more than 1,000 attendees)

*Case Study Winners will be announced in July 2024.

Communication Resources:

• CR2ZW 2024 Final Results National Press Release (coming soon)
• CR2ZW 2024 School Template Press Release (coming soon)
• CR2ZW 2024 Final Results Blog (coming soon)
• CR2ZW 2024 Impact One-Pager 
• CR2ZW 2024 College & University Participant Poster 
• CR2ZW 2024 Impact Infographic (coming soon)

Additional 2024 Reports

• Diversion category organized by athletic conference
• Per Capita Recycling category organized by athletic conference