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By Matt Lubin
Building off the successes of last year’s first “Builder Battles” competition, the Eco Reps and Environmental Society joined together with Stern’s Architecture Club to organize a second “Builder Battles”, and it was just as fun and exciting as the first! This year, we had a panel of highly qualified judges […]
By Alan Avitan & David Goldrich
For our Eco Rep Project, we chose to engage students on campus in an awareness event called Recycling Challenge: Shoot to Win. The project was a way to raise awareness
about, Recyclemania, the 8 week recycling competition that takes annually between 630+ participating universities in the United […]
Recyclemania Results are in ranking Yeshiva University as 13th out of over 200 schools in the bottles & cans division, 121st out of 365 schools in the per capita division, and 138th out of 365 schools in the gorilla division. Check out the details at our Recyclemania Page.
Did you know that recycling laws in New York City have changed?! That means recycling at Yeshiva University and Albert Einstein College of Medicine is changing too.
As of April 24th, the city is now accepting Rigid Plastic items, including yogurt containers, plastic clamshells at salad bars, plastic forms that everything from lightbulbs to scissors to […]
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 […]
Eco 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 […]
Join Yeshiva University in participating in Recyclemania beginning February 3rd until March 30th. Recyclemania, a 8 week long annual competition, that began in 2001 between only 2 schools, today includes over 630 colleges and universities within the US and Canada. All four of Yeshiva University’s campuses will be participating in the event including dorm […]
For 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 […]
Recyclemania results were published last week and Yeshiva increased its total recycling by over 15,000 pounds! Additionally the university was placed in the Bottles & Cans Division at 14th Place out of over 150 schools. On a per student and employee basis, the university was ranked 106th place out of 339 schools. And by total […]
Agenda for Einstein’s Sustainability Week:
MONDAY, OCTOBER 24
Recycle Day & Week, Forchheimer Lobby, Begins 10am – End of Friday
Recycle batteries, lightbulbs, printer cartridges,
plastic pens, and even clothes!
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25
Fall Harvest Day, 1945 Housing Building, 5:30 p.m.
Learn about the Jacobi Farmers Market,
join in […]
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