Sustainability Fair

Skagit Valley College Sustainability Fair

During the spring of every year Skagit Valley College hosts its annual Sustainability Fair at the Mount Vernon campus location. The 2011 Sustainability Fair is being held Feb 28th through Mar 3rd.

The Sustainability Fair offers a week full of events with speakers, presentations, discussions, Sustainability movie showings and informational literature.

The fair is free and open to the public.

Skagit Valley College - MV participates in RecycleMania!

1/28/2011

What Is RecycleMania?

RecycleMania is a friendly competition and benchmarking tool for college and university recycling programs to promote waste reduction activities to their campus communities. Over a 10-week period, schools report recycling and trash data which are then ranked according to who collects the largest amount of recyclables per capita, the largest amount of total recyclables, the least amount of trash per capita, or have the highest recycling rate. With each week's reports and rankings, participating schools watch how their results fluctuate against other schools and use this to rally their campus communities to reduce and recycle more.

When is RecycleMania?

The 2011 Tournament will officially extend for eight weeks between February 6 and April 2, 2011.

Why do we participate?

Colleges and universities are small cities that consume large amounts of resources and generate much solid waste. Whether a school has an extensive waste reduction program or is just getting basic recycling collections off the ground, experience has shown that all schools have potential to further reduce the amount of resources they consume and dispose of. RecycleMania provides a tool for campus recycling coordinators, student green teams and facility service professionals to engage their campus community in recycling and waste reduction in a fun and friendly way. RecycleMania anticipates that environmental messages cannot always motivate action by themselves and seeks to present waste reduction in terms any college student can appreciate: beating the cross town rival! In the process, participation in the competition familiarizes students with a campus's environmental programs and hopefully instills in them a life long habit. Past surveys have indicated 80% of participating schools experienced a noticeable increase in recycling collection during the competition.