NEWS - 12/10/03

For Immediate Release
Contact: Scott Davis, 303-492-8307

A Winning Season for Team Recycling!
Over 14,000 pounds of materials recycled at CU home games,
conserving 31 trees and 18,000 gallons of water

Although the Buffaloes were sacked a few times in the 2003 CU Football season, and there won’t be a bowl game this year, CU Recycling scored a touchdown by recovering more than 14,102 pounds of recyclables from six home games and the CU-CSU showdown at Mile High – a record of amount of recovered materials at football games. With increased effort and a strong game plan, CU Recycling rushed to cover tailgaters, fans, concessionaires, entrance gates and high traffic areas before the first kick-off each game day. The success of the program can be attributed to more efficient collection, visible recycling locations at tailgate areas and entrance gates, and a greater participation by fans and concessionaires.

CU Recycling's special events manager Scott Davis said there was good participation for recycling this year. “We will do some off season planning to continue to increase our efforts and hope for even greater participation to make next season a winner, too. All in all, we are very pleased that our efforts were able to make such an environmental impact.”

The special events teams intercepted 8,940 pounds of co-mingled containers and 5,162 pounds of corrugated cardboard, collecting an average of 2,000 pounds of materials at each home game, including a record 2,817 pounds collected by CU Recycling at the September 8 UCLA game. By blocking this much material from the waste stream, CU Recycling’s efforts at the 2003 football season conserved the following resources:

• 31 forty-foot Douglas fir trees
• 18,000 gallons of water
• 155 pounds of air pollutants
• 10,500 kilowatt hours of electricity
• 21 cubic yards of landfill space
• 1,700 gallons of gasoline

Thank you to all Buff fans for a great job of recycling this football season!

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