Clemson wins recycling challenge

Green-conscious Clemson students topped a field of 90 colleges to win the 2014 Game Day Recycling Challenge by collecting more than 60 thousand pounds of recyclables. Recycling bins and bag dispensers were placed within a three-square-mile tailgating area at the South Carolina game, and more than two thousand recycling bags were handed out to tailgaters. The bags and bins were collected after the game, along with 10 roll-offs and two dumpsters full of waste, and brought to a central location to be sorted. Otherwise, thousands of pounds of bottles, aluminum cans, paper, cardboard boxes and food scraps would have gone to a landfill. Clemson’s totals bested second place University of Tennessee in Knoxville by 13 thousand pounds.