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About Game Day Recycling
Football games bring thousands of fans onto campus and generate tons of trash. Launched in 2008, Georgia Tech's Game Day Recycling program makes it convenient for fans to recycle, whether they are tailgating, walking through the campus, or inside the Stadium watching the game.
How to Participate
The success of the Game Day Recycling program hinges on the active participation of everyone attending home football games. If you are tailgating before the game, simply place your recyclables in blue recycling bags (given out free by volunteers). Leave the bags on the ground and they will be picked up by GT Facilities. Also, make sure to use the green and white recycling bins that are set up in and around Bobby Dodd Stadium.
Photographers circulate throughout the tailgating areas at each home game to capture pictures of fans who are recycling and taking other steps to lessen the environmental impact of their tailgate. The images are shown on the JumboTron during the game. Use the GT Green Tailgating Guide for inspiration and get noticed!
Game Day Recycling Results
The graph below shows the weight of materials diverted from the landfill during each of Georgia Tech's home football games and tailgates since the Game Day Recycling program began in 2008. To date, the program has diverted 99.2 tons of material from the landfill.
EPA Game Day Challenge
During the 2012 football season, Georgia Tech particpated in the Game Day Recycling Challenge - competing against more than 70 other schools, including UGA, in five categories:
- Waste Generation: The school with the lowest per capita waste generation wins.
- Diversion Rate: The school with the largest overall (combines trash, recycling, and composting data) recycling rate wins.
- Greenhouse Gas Reduction: The school with the largest greenhouse gas reduction wins.
- Recycling: The school with the largest recycling rate wins.
- Organics Reduction:The school with the largest organic reduction rate wins.
Learn more about the competition on the Game Day Challenge website.
Volunteers
It takes many people to get the message out about recycling to all of the fans on game day, and the Game Day Recycling committee could not complete the project without the help of volunteers. Each season, more than 200 students volunteer their time to help make Game Day Recycling a success. Volunteers distribute recycling bags to tailgaters and greet fans at the Stadium gates. The typical commitment is about one hour on game day, and all volunteers are finished in time for kickoff.
