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PROVO -- A group of BYU students took it upon themselves to topple Harvard and it only took a few extra cardboard boxes.
Over 100 environmentally-conscious students joined with BYU recycling and Student Wellness to create the world's largest cardboard castle shattering Harvard's old record.
We were looking to make recycling fun and give it some visibility.
–- Bill Rudy, BYU Recycling coordinator
The idea for the project came as a combined result of making recycling more visible to the community, and . . .for some good competition. The activity was posted on the BYU website, and over 100 students responded to the call to volunteer.
"It looked pretty exciting, I mean, we want to kick Harvard's trash," BYU sophomore, Ann Fortuna told The Universe. "I have friends at Harvard and they have their record- we wanted to take it from them."
And these BYU students did just that. Their castle comprised of 704 cardboard boxes, towering over the old world record set by Harvard with 566 cardboard boxes. A few innovative engineering students lent their talent to help with the overall construction.
The project was lead by Bill Rudy, the recycling coordinator at BYU Recycling who had a goal to promote Recycle Mania, an eight-week-period national recycling competition among colleges in the U.S. Rudy told the Daily Universe that he was "looking to make recycling fun and give it some visibility."
Participants received a free green T-shirt or a Frisbee made out of recycled plastic bottles which they got to use to celebrate their victory.
