Toolkit

Check out our Maine Recycles toolkit for lots of posters, brochures, magnets, postcards, and more. Customize it to get your recycling campaign underway!

Events

Dump and Run

A fantastically popular event at many colleges and universities, Dump and Run is an event in which students can dump off their unwanted stuff/treasures to a gymnasium or arena and then it is sold at cheap prices to other students who are looking for furniture etc. All the money goes to charities. Dump and Run helps everybody out, including the local landfill. This is a really fun and worthwhile project. You’ll find all the information you need at: www.dumpandrun.org

Recycle Mania

Recycle Mania is a recycling competition between colleges and universities across the US. Several Maine schools are participating, but we can always do more. Their website has lots of tips from the winning universities on the best ways to get things going, including media ideas and more. Check it out at: http://www.recyclemaniacs.org/overview.htm

• An ambitious group could also try to start a Recycle Mainea where just the Maine colleges and universities could compete!

Great Green Links

Better World Books
Started by three college students like yourselves, better world books has become a huge success. Students can donate their used textbooks which are then sold to other students. The proceeds are used to support world literacy

Sustainable Campuses

• Green Campus Consortium of Maine The GCC’s mission is to develop an effective, Maine-wide network of colleges, universities and partners that will stimulate the continual improvement of environmental sustainability in our campus-based institutions through communication and education.
  
  
• National Wildlife Federation (NWF) Campus Ecology A site to help universities reduce waste, recycle, and fight climate change

• Second Nature An organization that works with faculty and administration to make the principles of sustainability the foundation for learning
  
  
• Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE)An association developed by Second Nature to provide resources to campuses so they can become sustainable
  
  
• Hands-On Recycling A company that pays a dollar for each old cell phone or ink cartridge collected. They provide the infrastructure to universities to collect the phones and cartridges and they pick them up
  
  
• Grass Roots Recycling Network (GRRN) Offers networking and resources on recycling and reducing waste on campuses

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