Coffee Cups With Folding Takeout Box Design Chuck Out The Need For Plastic Lids
First, plastic straws were tossed out; and now, it seems like plastic lids might be on their way out too. If you regularly get coffee to-go when you’re out and about, you might have come across a few campaigns trying to get rid of disposable cups in favor of protecting the environment.
The most significant push is encouraging coffee drinkers to bring their own thermos to stores. However, it’s pretty evident that disposable cups are not going anywhere.
The Good Cup rethinks the way coffee is being drunk and has come up with a container that looks like something you’d find Chinese takeout in. The folding cup has two flaps at the top that collapse on each other and lock together so that users can carry it wherever they go without worrying it will spill. It can also fit in a straw (paper, of course) if they have decided to have an iced beverage.
The alternative packaging took designer Cyril Drouet, the co-founder of Hong Kong-based sustainable packaging startup ChoosePlanetA, three years to formulate. According to Fast Company, Drouet notes that baristas shouldn’t take longer than a day to get the hang of using the design.
Since it is a paper product, you might be wondering how it’s being fortified not to leak through, as most of these types of containers also come with a plastic lining to prevent the drink from dissolving the material. In this case, a bio-based version known as BioBPS is lining it, and it’s certified to be biodegradable in home compost bins. Although, he does encourage recycling it as paper can be repurposed up to seven times.
The cups have recently launched in Japan in a trial with the convenience store chain FamilyMart. Here, customers will have to pour their own coffee in-store, so to aid them in understanding how to use the product, fingerprint marks have been added to show them where to press down to close the cup.
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[via Fast Company and The Good Cup, images via The Good Cup]
