Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 68.95
Liaison Brandon Trelstad
Submission Date May 11, 2013
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STARS v1.2

Oregon State University
OP-T2-11: Reusable Container Discounts

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.25 / 0.25 Richard Turnbull
Associate Director
University Housing And Dining Services
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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

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A brief description of the reusable mug program:
All of our facilities offer of a .10 - .20 discount if you bring in your own cup. In addition, most of our outlets have re-useable cups for employees to use to reduce the waste of employee beverage cups.

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Amount of the discount offered for using reusable mugs:
0.20

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Description of other reusable food- or beverage-related programs (e.g. incentives for use of reusable bags, dishware, to-go containers):
University Housing and Dining Services, supported by Campus Recycling and the OSU Sustainability Office, has implemented Eco2go reusable to go containers at one of three large dining centers. Patrons get 20 cents off each meal when they use the container.

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The website URL where information about the reusable mug discount program is available:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
For more information on the reusable to go containers, visit http://oregonstate.edu/uhds/eco2go

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