Red Cup Cleanup

Red Cup Cleanup Red Cup Cleanup is a program through the UC Davis Campus Center for the Environment that recycles number 6 plastic cups.

We are collecting used red cups and sending them to an organization called Terracycle, which uses the cups to make new plastic products. This provides a three-fold benefit:
1) the cups get recycled
2) it stops new plastic being produced to make these products
3) Terracycle donates two cents per cup to a charity of our choice. So what's wrong with just recycling the cups through the city of Davis?

Red cups are made of number 6 plastic and the recycling process for that number is questionable. Sending the cups to TerraCycle is a responsible way to keep the recycling domestic and make sure that it follows our US environmental standards. Davis was recently named the #1 cool school by Sierra magazine and it would be great to showcase our Aggie pride by making our partying a little greener.

Thoughts for your hump day: although it's better to reduce consumption, sending your "trash" across the country to be re...
09/02/2015

Thoughts for your hump day: although it's better to reduce consumption, sending your "trash" across the country to be recycled seems to be a better alternative than having it end up in a landfill.

Sure, sending trash far away burns more carbon than recycling it locally. But recycling it far away still beats trashing it. Umbra sorts the tradeoffs.

01/22/2015

Cleaning out the place after last weekends rager?
Don't want to reuse those cups that ended up in the yard and got all sticky after Brad's "incident"? All good, bro! Let us take them off your hands and redeem yourself for losing at snappa!

10/31/2014

Yo yo party people!! Hope you all have a kickin' Halloween! Remember to save those cups for us to pick up. Super easy and you'll help save lots of plastic from landfill. Be safe, kids. But mostly have tons o fun!

Happy Summer! We are still collecting #6 plastic cups. If you save yours, just message us at ucd.rcc@gmail.com, (530) 3...
06/24/2014

Happy Summer! We are still collecting #6 plastic cups. If you save yours, just message us at [email protected], (530) 330-5833, or over Facebook. P.s. isn't this the cutest red cup you've ever seen?

Make your mother proud and save your cups from this weekend!
05/12/2014

Make your mother proud and save your cups from this weekend!

05/06/2014

UC Davis is also participating in other TerraCycle brigades! You can drop off chip bags and energy/granola bar wrappers at the CoHo, chip bags at any of the C stores by the Dining Commons, and old pens at any of the DCs.

Help divert waste from the landfill, and don't forget to save your cups.

04/13/2014

Hope you all had a wonderful fun safe Picnic Day - don't forget to save those cups!!

One day until Picnic Day! What are your plans?? If you are going to use RED CUPS, don't forget to SAVE THEM for us! Just...
04/11/2014

One day until Picnic Day! What are your plans?? If you are going to use RED CUPS, don't forget to SAVE THEM for us! Just fbook message, email [email protected], or text/call (530) 330-5833 to let us know and we will gladly come pick up your dry, stacked cups to be recycled.

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Thank you Sigma Nu at UC Davis for saving and cleaning these cups for us! You guys rock!
04/09/2014

Thank you Sigma Nu at UC Davis for saving and cleaning these cups for us! You guys rock!

Playing box tetris this morning - we managed to fit 9 boxes into our teeny tiny car! Sadly, with all the boxes, there wa...
04/04/2014

Playing box tetris this morning - we managed to fit 9 boxes into our teeny tiny car! Sadly, with all the boxes, there wasn't much room for a driver (don't worry, we were safe and managed to push the seat back before we left). Hope you're all enjoying the first weekend of the quarter! You can contact us over Facebook, [email protected], or (530) 330-5833 to arrange a pickup.

Check out this impressive stack of cups from Chi Phi Davis. Thanks for saving your cups!!
04/04/2014

Check out this impressive stack of cups from Chi Phi Davis. Thanks for saving your cups!!

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