Brilliant.

I will be amazed if I do not see this in a store within a year.

Nicely done.
John

Great idea. Moving away from paper to PP is an option.

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This is a neatly presented cup. I'm not entirely convinced by the version rendered in white, but overall I think it is plausible.

nice design!

Agreed nice design!

I love the ribs instead of a sleeve...great design! As long as a strong effort is made to enforce recycling is put into action this will work well.

Awesome look, very striking. My only concern is the steep taper to the bottom of the cup, I worry a bit about the stability. There is some great feedback here, notibly the use of material but that can easily be changed out. Overall this is top-notch, well done.
Best of luck

I think this is one of the most feasible cups in the competition. It can be done today using off the shelf technology, it can be recycled easily (assuming it gets into the stream) and the part costs are sufficiently low enough that Starbucks or other coffee companies could actually consider it.

Only 2 additions to the idea:

1: the strip connecting the lid to the body has a 'nick' in it so that it can be torn off easily without the drink spilling

2: it currently won't stack. Currently the ribs on the outside have a different draft angle on the outside to the inside of the cup so transport of these things would be a nightmare. Rather than having them fade so heavily from the top to bottom it would be better if they were a constant distance away from the edge therefore making it possible to stack. Alternatively using a 2 part manufacturing process it would be possible to make it double walled by adding another layer on the inside. This would for far greater branding possibilities on the outside.

Good luck!

This cup is stunning and uses an elegant design - it would actually be a great travel mug and shows great creativity and thought. People should be aware, however, that no plastic is 100% recyclable. All plastic has to have virgin plastic added to it in order to be recycled and that often plastic can't be recycled to the same use, so this product wouldn't be closed loop. The cups would be recycled into something else. And, as a poster mentioned upthread, polypropylene is not accepted by many municipalities which pushes its recycle-ability further into question. Further, some studies have shown that polypropylene might have leakage issues - that is the quaternary ammonium biocides and oleamide leak out into whatever the cup is holding. Since biocides themselves are designed to kill life, drinking from a cup made of the material seems questionable. While further study is being done to determine how severe this problem is, and while it's already in use in containers such as yogurt - using such a cup to hold hot liquids (which would make the containers more likely to leech) seems risky. Further, plastic never biodegrades. Ever. It just breaks down into smaller pieces often ending up in the world's oceans where it can be eaten by fish and create hormone disruptions. Currently, most coffee cups currently in use are made (mostly) of paper, replacing a disposable but biodegradable product with a disposable but not biodegradable product doesn't seem wholly sustainable even if the former uses somewhat more energy in manufacturer; the long term implications of plastic use, one might argue makes it less sustainable, at best they sort of cancel each other out. This is a beautiful work of design I'm just questioning it's sustainability? Do you perhaps have counter arguments to the point I've raised? I'd be interested in hearing them.