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Product Design: Help reduce waste from coffee-to-go paper cups and come up with sustainable solutions!

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  • carlos
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    almost 2 years ago

    carlos idea owner

    Tesxastee: Thank you for your comments. Yes, frecuent client cards with bar codes, magnetic bands, chips, etc. are an efective promotional tool used in many aplications and are surely included in other proposals. Starbucks has them. My idea is integrating it with the plastic sleeves, therefore the barcodes. The clients card number is preprinted on the sleeve and his data is entered when he gets his first sleeve. His choice of three or more favorite drinks and other menu items would be added by adhesive bar code labels chosen by himself. The personalization, convenience, time savings, rewards, used sleeves' raffle, etc. are incentives for the consumer to keep and use the sleeve. On the other hand, the cost of a separate card (usually plastic) is saved too.

    The inside cup, if made out of plastic would resemble disposable formula bottles, except this one would have a solid rim of its own. This would be the same way of recycling as the plastic lids already in use. If the cup is made of rubber (latex) it looks more like a condom, again with a hard rim. The advantage of this one is that it is biodegradable. Also that it expands when the beverage is poured in.

    What do you think?
  • carlos
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    almost 2 years ago

    carlos idea owner

    dcanon:
    Thanks for your observations.
    To fit in a car's cup holder one would have to fold the handle to one side. The handle can also be shorter like on regular mugs.
    Since the sleeve is made of corrugated plastic and there is air inbetween, temperature is insulated and you can savely hold the "mug" with your hand instead of holding it by the handle. The handle might not be needed except it helps holding the ends together by incresing the adehering area. It is the barista who secures the cup inside the sleeve and sticks the ends of the sleeve together thus minimising its failure. Disposable diapers hold very well under more extreme conditions for a much longer lapse of time. I guess accidents may happen just as they have happened with cup lids but they can be marginal.
    I think a corrugated plastic coffee holder would not be practical to take and reuse becouse no one would want to take for reusing it without cleaning it first. Also attaching a leak proof bottom would not be easy. The two part group is more viable.
  • zacharycraig
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    almost 2 years ago

    zacharycraig

    Hey Carlos, beautifully presented well done. I like your design especially the automation of coffee buying, though I feel ultimately this design would still add more resources for wastage? - I don't see how we are reducing paper cup disposal? -
  • carlos
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    almost 2 years ago

    carlos idea owner

    The disposable inner liner is very light and recyclable. The outside sleeve is reusable but also recyclable.
  • Jcampos
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    almost 2 years ago

    Jcampos

    I agree zacharycraig. I think the point is to design a cup that will allow people to go about his/her daily buisness without having to worry about scanning barcodes. Where does this go?

    However, I really like your idea because it still has that Starbucks feel and look.
  • MasterStroke
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    almost 2 years ago

    MasterStroke

    Um okay there's still a disposable cup in there - you cant just add an extra piece and thinking this is the way forward lol!
  • Janne
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    almost 2 years ago

    Janne

    I like the idea of producing the same height for different sorts of cups. Regarding the handle - do you really need that? Not sure whether it´s so ergonomic when made of corrugated plastic. Why not wrapping the sleeve around the inner cup? Then it would even fit into a car´s cup holder.
    Regarding the production cost of two different materials, I am no expert and leave that to others to discuss...
  • Robhoski
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    over 1 year ago

    Robhoski

    There's a lot of thinking going on here and that's a good sign. Just wondering about the implementation costs of all the new apparatuses.
  • omaroyoun
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    over 1 year ago

    omaroyoun

    I have voted for you idea. Our retries are a step forward towards a greener planet with less waste. Please have a look at my idea and I greatly appreciate your opinion http://www.jovoto.com/contests/drink-sustainably/ideas/5237
  • sweetmelissa9978
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    over 1 year ago

    sweetmelissa9978

    Great presentation! Maybe a handle redesign? I'm clumsy...and that looks like a disaster waiting for ME to happen! Good luck with your entry!
    May I ask your opinion of my entry?
    http://www.jovoto.com/contests/drink-sustainably/ideas/4793