Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 54.13
Liaison Keisha Payson
Submission Date July 11, 2013
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Bowdoin College
OP-T2-11: Reusable Container Discounts

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.25 / 0.25 Keisha Payson
Sustainability Coordinator
Sustainable Bowdoin
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Does campus dining operations offer discounts to customers who use reusable mugs instead of disposable cups in to-go food service operations?:
Yes

A brief description of the reusable mug program:

The Café operation at Bowdoin Dining provides discounts for reusable mug use. Bowdoin Dining Service will clean reusable mugs for students and staff as an incentive for increased use.


Amount of the discount offered for using reusable mugs:
0.05

Description of other reusable food- or beverage-related programs (e.g. incentives for use of reusable bags, dishware, to-go containers):

Bowdoin Dining and Sustainable Bowdoin team up to offer raffle prizes for the use of reusable lunch bags in both of the College's to-go lunch locations. Drawings are twice a semester.

Bowdoin Student Government has an annual program that offers students 50% off the purchase of reusable water bottles at the college bookstore.


The website URL where information about the reusable mug discount program is available:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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