Do US-based university pouring rights contracts with beverage companies include provisions that promote environmental sustainability?

• Tác giả: Sara E Benjamin-Neelon, Eva Greenthal, Elyse R Grossman, Stephanie A Lucas, Katherine Marx, Brian Neelon, Martha Ruffin
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 658.723 Contracts
• Thông tin xuất bản: United States : Preventive medicine reports , 2025
• Bộ sưu tập: NCBI
• ID: 683197

Tóm tắt

 OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study was to investigate the prevalence of sustainability-related provisions in pouring rights contracts between universities and beverage companies and assess differences by company. METHODS: We conducted this cross-sectional study from 2019 to 2020. We submitted contract requests to public universities in the United States under public records laws. We coded pouring rights contracts for 4 types of provisions: 1) payments to universities for sustainability efforts
  2) provision of recycling bins to universities
  3) provision of energy-efficient equipment to universities
  and 4) other sustainability provisions. We used Fisher's exact test to assess differences in likelihood of having any sustainability-related provisions and Cochran-Armitage trend tests to assess differences in the number of sustainability-related provisions between contracts with Coca-Cola versus Pepsi. RESULTS: We received 131 contracts from universities in 38 states. Of the 131 contracts, 81 (61.8 %) contained at least one of the 4 sustainability provisions (36 Coca-Cola
  45 Pepsi)
  one contract contained all 4. There were no differences in the total number of sustainability provisions by Coca-Cola versus Pepsi ( CONCLUSIONS: Over one third of Coca-Cola and Pepsi university pouring rights contracts did not have any sustainability-related provisions, representing a missed opportunity to support university sustainability initiatives.