Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 78.45
Liaison Emma Blandford
Submission Date May 15, 2012
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Georgia Institute of Technology
OP-T2-11: Reusable Container Discounts

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.25 / 0.25 Marcia Kinstler
Sustainability Director
Office of Environmental Stewardship
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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:

Reusable mugs are encouraged with a 5% discount.

As part of Georgia Tech Dining's effort to worktowards being waste neutral, they moved to reusable dishes and utensils and compostable ancillary items.


Amount of the discount offered for using reusable mugs:
5

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

Dining Halls already offered reusable food, beverage, and utentsils.. They made a focused program to become waste neutral and have in fact become 98% waste neutral.

Food Court also provides reusable dishes, beverages, and utensils and compostable to-go containers.


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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