Recyclemania, the nationwide recycling contest, is conducted among participating universities over a 8 week period. During this time, universities such as Yeshiva University step up efforts to recycle plastic, paper, cardboard and other recyclable waste products produced by the institution. For their joint project, Jonah Keyak (’15) and David Goldrich (’15) chose to expand upon [...]
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Eco Rep Recyclemania 2013 Project
Monday, May 20th, 2013Recycling Builder Battles Success!
Monday, May 6th, 2013Eco Rep, Rivki Weiss worked in conjunction with the Environmental Society to create an event called Builder Battles, an eco-friendly building competition, on May 1, 2013 as a part of Earth Week. The goal of the event was to educate students on what is recyclable in New York City and to demonstrate how fun it [...]
Earth Week at Yeshiva, Water: Drink Responsibly Event
Monday, May 6th, 2013The goal of this event was to raise awareness on campus about the issues with bottled water in hopes of encouraging more people to buy and use reusable water bottles. To that effect Eco Reps, Levana Massihesraelian and Melanie Simon, gave out reusable water bottles to those who participated in the event. On Monday April 22nd [...]
YU Unplugged Eco Rep Movie Night
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2013At Yeshiva University, students are offered the opportunity to take part in an Eco Representative Leadership Program through the Office of Energy & Sustainability. Students take part in weekly meetings to discuss issues of environmental sustainability as well as run awareness events during the year to promote these ideas. One student, Alan Avitan recently ran [...]
Eco Rep Project: Recycled Table for Student Life
Tuesday, September 4th, 2012For our project, we decided to do something that would promote the idea of recycling. According to Earth911.com, “Producing new plastic products from recycled materials uses two-thirds less energy than making products from raw (virgin) materials, so recycling plastics frees up that energy consumption for other products and uses. In 2007, the U.S. recycled over [...]
Recyclemania. One of the 2011 Eco Rep Projects.
Monday, May 21st, 2012An article written by Ore VanGruber, a 2011 Yeshiva Eco Rep. As an Eco-Rep of Yeshiva University, I decided that my individual project for the program would be to host a floor by floor competition at the Wilf Campus during Recyclemania. Recyclemania is a friendly competition and benchmarking tool for college and university recycling [...]
YU Eco Rep Program to have 2nd year.
Thursday, June 23rd, 2011As the first year of the Eco Rep Pilot Program comes to a close, The Office of Energy & Sustainability (OES) is happy to announce the program’s continuation. The project first began in Fall 2010 with the help of a grant given by Hazon and matching funding from OES, allowing the office to reach out [...]
The Topsy Turvy Bus comes to YU
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011Join the Topsy Turvy Bus on April 11th at 8pm on the Wilf Campus. From early February through mid-April, the Teva Learning Center’s used-vegetable-oil-powered Topsy-Turvy Bus will be rambling through the Southeast United States, making stops at Jewish organizations and institutions in various communities. This year’s tour is titled “From Purim to Freedom” and will [...]
Bottle Wareness Day
Friday, January 28th, 2011On December 15th 2010, the YU EcoReps on Beren campus ran a daylong event focused on bottled water. Reps, Sophie Felder and Rachel Sussman chose this focus due to the student population’s heavy reliance on bottled water. Though both cafeterias at Stern College offer fountain drinks and have water fountains, the primary source of water [...]
YU Celebrates America Recycles Day
Thursday, January 6th, 2011On November 15, Yeshiva University celebrated America Recycles Day for the first time by recycling used cell phones. Students were asked to give in their old cell phones and batteries, and were provided with Recycle Day t-shirts and entered into a raffle to win an iPod Touch. The t-shirts were sponsored by Keep America Beautiful [...]