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How UC is phasing out single-use plastics

Cal Zero Waste partnered with concessionaire Levy, Cal Athletics and the reusable cup company r.World to introduce reusable cups at Cal home football games last season. (Credit: Cal Zero Waste.)

The UC community has made many changes in pursuit of its goal to eliminate certain single-use plastics, set by university leaders in 2020.

For the first time, every campus and location is sharing its progress toward that goal as part of UC’s Annual Sustainability Report, which launched this week.

Resolving to eliminate single-use plastics is “a very ambitious goal, considering our society relies on plastic for almost everything, and it’s often cheaper than the alternatives,” says Agnes Martelet, who leads waste reduction strategies across the university as associate director of sustainability at the UC Office of the President. “We’re not there yet, but we’ve made incredible progress in a short time.”

Explore the whole report from the UC Newsroom

 

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