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
- 2nd place: Kendall College of Art and Design, Michigan
- Medium campus: Seattle University, Washington
- 2nd place: Loyola Marymount University, California
- Large campus: University of Louisville, Kentucky
- 2nd place: University of Maryland College Park
Food Organics Category
- Small campus: Aquinas College, Michigan
- 2nd place: Bard College, New York
- Medium campus: Loyola Marymount University, California
- 2nd place: Endicott College, Massachusetts
- Large campus: Kent State University, Ohio
- 2nd place: Stanford University, California
Per Capita Recycling Category
- Small campus: Neumann University, Pennsylvania
- 2nd place: Coe College, Iowa
- Medium campus: Loyola Marymount University, California
- 2nd place: SUNY Purchase College, New York
- Honorable Mention: United States Military Academy West Point
- Large campus: Boston College, Massachusetts
- 2nd 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.
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