Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 51.19
Liaison Jim Walker
Submission Date Jan. 31, 2011
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STARS v1.0

University of Texas at Austin
Tier2-9: Reusable Mug Discounts

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.25 / 0.25 Meagan Jones
Environmental Specialist
Division of Housing and Food Service
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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:

Customers have the option to buy a plastic hot-drink mug, plastic cold-drink mug, ceramic mug or stainless steel bottle. These can be used in all retail locations operated by DHFS for a discount.

The amount is variable, but as an example, the stainless steel widemouth bottles offered for soda and tea may be filled for $0.79 instead of $1.29 for the same amount of liquid, and are FREE to fill on Fridays.


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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