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MIT wins GoGreen Award

MIT is one of several Cambridge institutions that were presented with GoGreen Business Awards by the City of Cambridge on Thursday, June 8.

MIT was honored in the recycling and waste reduction category. MIT has more than tripled its recycling rate since 2000, reaching 40 percent in 2005 and placing third in the country for the amount of paper recycled during the 10-week Recyclemania collegiate contest.

A version of this article appeared in MIT Tech Talk on June 14, 2006 (download PDF).

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