The biggest benefit (is)?that a competition allows people to ask questions about recycling without any hang-ups. They have a stake in it, they have ownership in it, so they are going to inform themselves about it.

On a campus where it is difficult to form a habit to recycle for the scarcity of resources, a competition like this is another tool to train students to recycle and keep it fun as well.

We view Earth Day as another way to inform students about the progress we have made with our environmental measures on campus and in the community. But (we view it) also as a way to celebrate a great year with some great music, fun activities and hopefully a new appreciation for the environment.

We are pleased to be part of this campaign as while people are good at recycling their green glass, we know that the recycling of brown and clear glass is less common and we need to make our residents more aware of this, and why it is important.

Our goal is to do better than last year, And to get people excited about recycling and, of course, to beat BYU.

We felt that [recycling] was getting kind of a negative connotation and people were getting turned off, so part of Linda's idea was [the Recycling Rewards] program, which I think was a good one. Let's create a positive approach here. We do want people to recycle.