The Ohio State University Columbus campus achieved a gold rating within the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS).

Ohio State’s 2019 gold rating is good for three years and places the university among leading national and international colleges and universities, according to the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) that administers STARS.

Ohio State earned the No. 1 ranking in the annual RecycleMania competition for GameDay Basketball diversion rate. The Feb. 26 contest against Iowa at the Jerome Schottenstein Center delivered a 99.4% diversion rate. Waste was collected during the game, diverted from the landfill and weighed helping Ohio State move up five spots in the 2019 RecycleMania GameDay Basketball diversion competition. Zero Waste at the Jerome Schottenstein Center is a collaborative effort and we thank all our partners!

Ellen Westfall is a senior on the Ohio State field hockey team. The environmental policy and decision making major found a passion for sustainability as a Huntington Bucks Go Pro intern in the summer of 2018. She spent her internship working with athletic department’s sustainability officers.

For the seventh year in a row, the Ohio State University was named Big Ten Conference champion in the annual 2018 Game Day Recycling Challenge. The Buckeyes earned the title after achieving the highest diversion rate for a single home football game during the 2018 season.

Arden Holden, a senior on the women’s soccer team, is passionate about sustainability! She is majoring in environment, economy, development and sustainability; one of the newer programs in the School of Environment and Natural Resources.