UCLA Today’s got more details on what gave Bruins the eco-competitive edge. My alma mater, University of Southern California, didn’t even make the list of the top 135. Trojans have cause to worry — Auden Schendler at Grist argues that colleges without rocking enviro programs are failed businesses.
That said, UCLA could still be doing a lot better. UCLA’s office of media relations bragged about the school’s "current 60 percent waste diversion rate” in an email to me about Sierra magazine’s list. But according to L.A. City Council President Eric Garcetti’s blog, “Los Angeles has the highest recycling rate out of the 10 largest U.S. cities. The recycling rate here is 65 percent.”
Bruins — recycle at least as much as the average Angeleno!
These numbers make me shudder at how little the other colleges in the U.S. (including USC) must be recycling — despite the fact that recycling’s the easiest and least effective eco-move in the “reduce, reuse, recycle” triumvirate.
How did your alma mater do?
Image courtesy of Sierra
