GO2CUP - Facilitating participation and cooperation towards a waste free future.
A platform cooperative for returnable, reusable cups.
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A platform cooperative for returnable, reusable cups.
Connecting local business and the community to make reusable cups easier.
Hi Sara Nejad , based on their Instagram page I believe they have a number of cafes operating in both New York and Boulder. Check out their website: http://vesselwrks.com
The real challenge for these style of initiatives to spread far and wide is the adoption by cafes. Most cafes run on such small profit margins and/or very targeted marketing in a competitive industry that it is hard for them to contribute time or money towards the collection and washing of reusable cups. It makes sense to us because we care but for these initiatives to thrive we need to put ourselves in the shoes of cafe owners just trying to make a living or the coffee drinker that just wants their favourite cup of coffee. Amongst all that we need to find a way to resource washing local reusable cups rather than using ridiculously cheap disposable cups.
Hi Marifer Victoria , I'm sure your cup will be much more ocean friendly than the polyethylene lined disposable cups that fill our ocean. However, have you thought about the consequence to marine life if the ocean was filled with your cups? Would the fish that eat your broken down cups overpopulate our oceans? Have you considered any form of cup recovery? Maybe your cup could be used to feed fish farms in isolation without disrupting the balance of our marine ecosystems?
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