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RecycleMania is a friendly competition and benchmarking tool for college and university recycling programs to promote waste reduction activities to their campus communities. Over a 10-week period, schools report recycling and trash data which are then ranked according to who collects the largest amount of recyclables per capita, the largest amount of total recyclables, the least amount of trash per capita, or have the highest recycling rate. With each week’s reports and rankings, participating schools watch how their results fluctuate against other schools and use this to rally their campus communities to reduce and recycle more. Contest ends March 28, 2009. Support UCI and your environment by recycling your cardboard, plastic bottles, and cans on campus.  http://www.recyclemaniacs.org Peter's Pick is a symbol to help you identify healthy and nutritious choices on campus. Based on the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005, specifically: Less than 10 percent of the food's calories are from saturated fatty acids Total fat intake less than 35 percent of calories, with most fats coming from sources of polyunsaturated and monunsaturated fatty acids, such as fish, nuts and vegetable oils Each item has less than 100 mg of cholesterol (recommendation is 300 mg/day) Each item contains less than 800 mg of sodium (recommendations are less than 2300 mg/day (approximately 1 teaspoon of salt) Item is either rich in fiber (greater than or equal to 2g) or includes fruits, vegetables and/or whole grains Additionally as recommended by the Institute of Medicine, Peter's Picks have less than 25% of total calories coming from sugar. Guidelines are driven from Dietary Guidelines for Americans; you can read more about them here. Recommendations for cholesterol and sodium were calculated by taking the daily recommendation and dividing by three. Considering you would have three meals per day and dividing the recommendations throughout those meals. For more information on how to read a food label, click here. *All Peter's Picks are per serving Locations Currently Peter's Pick is only available at the Zot N Go convenience center. More locations coming soon. Email Emily Bell with questions or for more information The Peter's Pick Program is a collaboration between UCI Dining and Health Education.  Visit health.uci.edu here.