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The website thebestcolleges.org<\/a> has ranked\u00a0Kalamazoo College #6 on its list of \u201c11 College Recycling Programs That Put All Others To Shame<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

The website cites K for\u00a0being\u00a0“a perennial top finisher in Recyclemania,” the national\u00a0competition for college and university recycling programs, and\u00a0for a recycling department <\/a>that “oversees the export of about a ton of food waste a week to a local pig farm, as well as the recycling of calculators, batteries, electric motors, and all other e-waste.”<\/p>\n

K\u2019s student run \u201cBat Cave\u201d also gets a shoutout, as the place where student volunteers answer questions and run the REP Room, or Resource Exchange Program, where they recycle textbooks, mirrors, Christmas lights, pens, lamps, and much more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The website thebestcolleges.org has ranked\u00a0Kalamazoo College #6 on its list of \u201c11 College Recycling Programs That Put All Others To Shame.\u201d The website cites K for\u00a0being\u00a0“a perennial top finisher in Recyclemania,” the national\u00a0competition for college and university recycling programs, and\u00a0for a recycling department that “oversees the export of about a ton of food waste a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[231],"tags":[55,100,38,113],"post_formats":[],"class_list":["post-1149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-students","tag-green","tag-recycling","tag-students","tag-sustainability"],"yoast_head":"\r\nK Recycling Program Puts Others to Shame - News and Events<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The website thebestcolleges.org has ranked\u00a0Kalamazoo College #6 on its list of \u201c11 College Recycling Programs That Put All Others To Shame.\u201d The website\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/k-recycling-program-puts-others-to-shame\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"K Recycling Program Puts Others to Shame - 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