Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 52.15
Liaison Laura Young
Submission Date April 14, 2011
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STARS v1.0

Michigan State University
Tier2-9: Reusable Mug Discounts

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.25 / 0.25 Carla Iansiti
Sustainability Officer
Culinary 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

A brief description of the reusable mug program:

Sparty's Convenience Store has a mug that can be purchased for $1.99 and refilled at the discount price of $0.99. To date, over 800 have been sold since September 2010.

Our Concessions Dept has a reusable mug to reduce waste at sporting events. So far 27,946 reusable mugs have been sold since September 2009.

All River Walk Market residents (725) received a FREE refillable mug Fall of 2009. In addition, this year 250 were sold for $4.99; refill prices were $0.99.


Amount of the discount offered for using reusable mugs:
0.50

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