Bates is the first college in the nation to institute a Take-A-Mug-Leave-A-Mug program, which provides students with reusable lidded coffee mugs instead of paper cups for take out drinks. When they're done, they simply return the mug to dining and pick up a clean one!

How Much Waste Prevented?

If you lined up the number of paper cups replaced by mugs, you'd get a total of 13.3 miles of paper cups avoided each year.

That's 53.2 laps around the Bates Football Track!