You’ve sipped from it at fine events, drank from it at backyard barbecues and probably guzzled from it in your college days. I’m talking about Solo red cup. The problem with this iconic beverage dispenser is that the number 6 polystyrene plastic is often hard to recycle in many U.S. communities. Not anymore! On Thursday, at the Keep America Beautiful Great American Clean Up event in New York City , Solo Cup Co. and TerraCycle announced that they have banned together to create the Solo Cup Brigade, a disposal solution for the millions of single-use cups sold each year.