LUG-A-MUG Program
Reduce Waste; reusing is better than recycling!
The Auburn University Lug-a-Mug program offers
travel mugs for sale at discounted prices. The holder of a
mug receives a discount on all fountain drinks and coffee
drinks purchased on campus and at participating merchants
off campus (Bizilia's Cafe, Cambridge Coffee, Taylor's Bakery,
and Wall Street Deli). Lug-A-Mugs can be purchased for $6.00
(plus tax) at the Library coffee shop (Stacks), the Haley
Center coffee shop located on the first floor, Dudley Hall
(the Drawing Board), and the Foy Student Union (War Eagle
Food Court). Discounts are as follows:
- Fill up your mug with any
coffee drink and pay only the price of the small.
- Fill up your mug with any
fountain drink and only pay the price of a small drink (excluding Einstein's).
The goal of the Lug-A-Mug program is to encourage people
to go beyond recycling to waste reduction. The average college
student disposes of an estimated 500 cups a year. Paper
cups not only waste trees, but their manufacturing dumps
into the environment a number of harmful chemicals. These
disposable cups have only one place to go...the landfill.
While plastic can sometimes be recycled, paper coffee cups
are commonly wax-coated reducing their biodegradability
and making recycling difficult. By reducing the number of
these coffee cups used on Auburn University's campus, we
can reduce both the manufacturing and disposal waste.
If every person on our campus uses one disposable
cup a day, that is over 20,000 per day; over 100,000 per
week; over 5 million per year!
If everyone at Auburn University used a refillable mug once
a day we would save thousands of disposable cups a day;
millions per year!
This program is sponsored by the Auburn University Sustainability
Initiative and Tiger Dining/Chartwells
For more information contact Matt Williams (miwilliams@auburn.edu)
or Lindy Biggs (biggslb@auburn.edu).
You can reach either at the Auburn Sustainability Initiative
by calling 844-7777.
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