{"id":5970,"date":"2014-07-16T14:00:48","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T21:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/sustainability\/blog\/?p=5970"},"modified":"2014-07-16T14:00:48","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T21:00:48","slug":"question-of-the-week-plastic-cold-cups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/2014\/07\/16\/question-of-the-week-plastic-cold-cups\/","title":{"rendered":"Question of the Week: Plastic Cold Cups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/files\/2014\/07\/cup-sun-win-me.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5971\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/files\/2014\/07\/cup-sun-win-me.jpg\" alt=\"cup-sun-win-me\" width=\"131\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2114\/files\/2014\/07\/cup-sun-win-me.jpg 563w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2114\/files\/2014\/07\/cup-sun-win-me-169x300.jpg 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 131px) 100vw, 131px\" \/><\/a>Time for our Question of the Week!<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333\">The first person to respond with the correct answer will win\u00a0a reusable OSU Cold Cup (with straw).<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333\">Submit your answer here (<strong>\u201cLeave a Reply,\u201d below<\/strong>) or on our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/osurecycling\">Facebook<\/a> page. Only one post per person, please.<\/p>\n<h3>Question of the Week<\/h3>\n<p>Pictured below is a plastic cold cup. <span style=\"color: #008000\">Into what bin on campus (excluding Res. halls) would you sort this into?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/files\/2014\/07\/plastic-cup-NO.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5974\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/files\/2014\/07\/plastic-cup-NO-744x1024.png\" alt=\"plastic cup NO\" width=\"161\" height=\"221\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Answer<\/h3>\n<p>Plastic cold cups are considered trash.<\/p>\n<p>Because cold cups are not one of the four shapes of plastic collected at OSU, they are not considered recyclable, and therefore should NOT go into the &#8220;containers&#8221; recycling.<\/p>\n<p>Read our <a href=\"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/sustainability\/blog\/2014\/01\/recycling-mythbusters-plastic-recyclables\/\">Recycling Mythbusters blog<\/a> for more information on why some plastics are recyclable, while others aren&#8217;t. You can also visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/recycle.oregonstate.edu\/recycleguide\/all\">recycle guide <\/a>to learn more about <a href=\"http:\/\/recycle.oregonstate.edu\/recycleguide\/containers\">what types of plastic are recyclable<\/a> on campus.<\/p>\n<p>And congratulations to Arijit for winning this week&#8217;s Question of the Week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time for our Question of the Week! The first person to respond with the correct answer will win\u00a0a reusable OSU Cold Cup (with straw). Submit your answer here (\u201cLeave a Reply,\u201d below) or on our\u00a0Facebook page. Only one post per person, please. Question of the Week Pictured below is a plastic cold cup. Into what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5035,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1292115,1292119],"tags":[626631,608247],"class_list":["post-5970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-recycling","category-waste-reduction","tag-recycling-question-of-the-week","tag-waste-reduction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5035"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}