Great Moments in Recycling

We received our beautiful "KSR plastic bottle drive" posters yesterday from Commonvision. The design, mostly hand drawn by team member Mai Huynh, features an image of a plastic water bottle and the sketch of a city street around it. I set up a collection bin with the sign in front of it, and then returned a few hours later to see how many bottles we collected.
By 9:30 pm we had collected... one Starbucks coffee cup. Was this a subtle hint that we should construct the sculpture out of coffee cups instead? After all, Americans dispose of 25 billion coffee cups per year (http://www.carryyourcup.org/get-the-facts).
But as I looked around the hallway in which the bin was placed, there were no trash cans or other kinds of recycling.  So I placed a trash can next to the collection bin.
So we shall see if the trash alternative helps. In the meantime, what do we do with all the coffee cups??