Coastal Carolina University ranked in the top 21 percent for the GameDay Recycling Challenge, a friendly competition among 91 colleges and universities to promote waste reduction at football games.

During the competition, colleges and universities implement waste reduction programs during home football games. Schools track and report waste reductions and disposal data and then rank the schools. CCU ranked No. 19 with a 53.5 percent diversion rate. A diversion rate is the amount of waste that is diverted from the landfill. In this case, 53.5 percent of the total waste that was generated from the football games was recycled and kept out of the landfill.

The Citadel came in at No. 20 with a 51.3 percent diversion rate.

Clemson University ranked No. 1 in the nation for total recycling with 60,724 pounds recycled. Clemson also ranked 14th in the nation for the diversion rate (63.4 percent).

The University of South Carolina was ranked No. 32 with a 34.6 percent diversion rate. The competition is run by a partnership of the College and University Recycling Coalition (CURC), RecycleMania, Keep America Beautiful (KAB) and EPA's WasteWise program.

Coastal Carolina's recycling program is managed by the TD Campus and Community Sustainability Initiative.