Show Cafeteria cups are not recyclable Gloria Quick Staff Writer cups used at cafeteria are Snot Styrofoam not recyclable nor biodegradable but neither were the paper cups used prior to Bob Prices Price's appointment as Food Director for according to Price Price said he switched to styrofoam because they stand up better and although styrofoam usually costs more he got it for the price of paper by al allowing allowing allowing al- al lowing Pepsi and Coke emblems According to Price paper cups for cold drinks are coated with a wax substance and hot drink cups have some wax as well as other coatings that prevent a biodegradable product Price said the culprit for the ozone layer was not styrofoam but the ChI Chloro oro Flouro Carbons contained in styrofoam until January 1990 Styrofoam no longer contains and the cups used at tantamount to paper in regard to ozone and landfill situations according according according accord accord- ing to Price Price said s id that McDonalds McDonald's might have removed all their styrofoam products as an image factor rather than for environmental issues While styrofoam cups cost somewhere between two and eight cents per cup Price said aid it costs food services more money to let people use their own cups According to Price tried allowing students to obtain drink refills in any merchants cup and It lilt was a nightmare because we dont don't know how m much ch of the product we are giving People were filling cups with yogurt orange juice coffee tea and soda each of which is priced differently different different- ly and there was no way of measuring the quantity of the items taken Everything we have were we're selling close to cost Price said he doesn't feel permitting students to use their own cups for drinks would make a significant difference in today's landfill problem however however however how how- ever those concerned may purchase 32 ounce refill cups bearing the name from the information desk on campus He said that no other cups will be filled and refills cost 75 cents the same as drinks in styrofoam cups Places like Circle K and Seven 11 offer reduced rate refills in any merchants merchant's cup as an incentive to get people in the store not as an environmental measure according to Price Its lilts what's called a loss leader in the food business II said Price who has been in that business for over 25 years He said that if a convenience store breaks even or loses money on a refill drink they make it up somewhere else but food service is non profit The goal is to break even and offer the community community community com com- the best quality and lowest prices pos pos- sible Price said that everyone cant can't be pleased by his decisions but that the end of his first year at sho showed ed food services in the black which it hasn't always been in the past 10 years A family man Price said he took a pay cut to work work- at which enables him to avoid the frequent travel usually associated with food services |