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RecycleMania 2009 Question of the Week




Competition rules

--RecycleMania 2009 questions will be published in The Catalyst each week.

--Participants may submit their entry by sending an e-mail to recycle@musc.edu.

--Deadline to submit an entry is Tuesday (following the Friday question) at  9 a.m.

--Correct answers will be entered in a weekly drawing. 
 
--Weekly questions will be posted on the recycling Web site at http://www.musc.edu/gogreen and in the elevators of the Education Center/Library Building along with weekly status updates and the answers to the previous week’s questions.

Last week's question, answer and winner
Question:  If you are trying to save a few dollars, you probably are changing the oil of your car yourself. You can also save the environment by taking your used oil to one of more than 50 drop-off sites within 25 miles of MUSC. It takes 1 gallon of used motor oil to produce 3 quarts of re-refined lubricating oil, while it takes more than 42 gallons of crude to produce those same 3 quarts. One gallon of used oil can contaminate 1 million gallons of water. Can you figure out how many millions of gallons of water are saved from pollution when the used oil from an average car is recycled and re-refined instead of poured down a storm drain?
 
Answer: If the average car holds 5 quarts of oil, it could contaminate 1.25 million gallons of water. Therefore, 1.25 million gallons of water are spared when the 5 quarts of motor oil are recycled.
 
The winner is Shannon Simpson, Family Medicine.

Question of the week
MUSC is now in week 8 of Recycle-Mania, a friendly competition and benchmarking tool for university recycling programs to promote waste reduction activities to their campus communities. What two schools started the RecycleMania contest? Look for the answer in the March 20 issue of The Catalyst.
 
Look for the answer in the March 20 issue of The Catalyst.










Friday, March 6, 2009



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