Coffee runs through students’ bloodstreams on the daily, but they have not been recycling their used coffee cups correctly.
The University of Wisconsin Office of Sustainability posted a video to educate UW students on how to properly recycle their coffee cups.
Cafes and markets across campus use approximately 6,500 single-use coffee cups per day. Most cups are placed in the trash, when the cups are actually composed of three parts.
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The lid should be placed in the plastic recycling, the coffee sleeve should be placed in the paper recycling and the cup should be placed in the trash.
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