2026 – UW Recycling organized several waste reduction events during the CR2ZW competition period including Trivia Week, Trash Art Contest, Mending Fair, and a Husky Goods Free Store Pop-up.
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2026 – UW-Stout Polytechnic uses the Campus Race to Zero Waste competition as a key time to coordinate campus-wide waste reduction efforts and initiatives.
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2025 – Appalachian State increases the number of Zero Waste Basketball games and expands zero waste efforts and education in the Holmes Convocation Center.
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2025 – Central Michigan promotes waste reduction through public waste audits, dining hall plate waste audits, and sustainable purchasing reviews.
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2025 – University of Washington organizes education & awareness events including Waste Trivia Week, the Trash Art Contest, and tabling events in partnership with one of their waste vendors, Recology.
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2025 – Macalester College recovers and redistributes large quantities of food through events such as homecoming, commencement and at the end-of-semester.
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2025 – Spelman College builds food waste infrastructure through back of house composting resulting in 100% compost acceptance and over 33,000 lbs. diverted from landfill.
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2025 – Auburn University implements organics recycling system in conjunction with annual pumpkin carving competition.
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2025 – Miami University’s waste diversion strategies at Social Innovation Weekend 2025 to reduce trash sent to the landfill.
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2025 – Launching UMass Amherst’s first on-campus thrift store, New2U, to support year-round waste diversion and circular consumption.
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