Contigo's No-Spill Beverageware

Contigo developed the AUTOSEAL technology, which automatically seals between sips, and has integrated the exclusive lid system into a line of travel mugs and bottles. The Contigo AUTOSEAL line of products are all FDA approved and BPA free.

"Now more than ever, people are trying to find ways to save money," Sami Elsaden, CEO of Contigo said. "By forgoing a daily stop at a coffee shop, consumers can save up to $2,000 a year as well as reduce the use of Styrofoam and cardboard cups, which is ultimately good for the environment."

UNBC Green Day

Watch a video on how the University of Northern BC is celebrating Green Day by focusing on waste reduction. The Green Day organizers have adorned the ceilings with used disposable coffee cups from waste audits showing how there is too much waste.







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C2C-coffee cup

C2C coffee cup takes the concept of cradle-to-cradle and applies it to the design of a coffee cup. The design team chose the disposable paper cup; the ‘C2C’ coffee cup is manufactured at the cafe from the waste stream of the cafe. Used coffee grounds are mixed with paper pulp and a polylactide resin (made from corn derived dextrose), then pressure-molded into shape.

The physical design itself originated from the wish of providing not only a directional feature to the cup, but also to provide a friendlier shape and more secure grip. C2C is fully biodegradable with its final elements being 100% compostable. Manufacturing of C2C provides for an animated feature in a cafe, since most of the process will be visible.

Thus the grounds used for "your" drink would make up "your" cup. However, "your" cup grounds content will actually be from someone else's brew, since there will be a certain cycle delay, when taking mixing, forming, drying, and cooling into consideration. But technically, one brew makes its own cup.

67 spun copper cups

Vancouver Art Gallery's new exhibit, How Soon is Now: Contemporary Art from Here, brings together 34 British Columbia artists working in sculpture, painting, video, audio, architectural interventions, site-specific projects, performances and events.

The exhibit features the above piece by Sonny Assu called ,67 spun copper cups, grande size. Art takes on the disposable cup yet again.

410,000 cups every 15 Minutes

Photographer Chris Jordan uses photography to illustrate the staggering scale of human consumption. In this series of pictures titled Paper Cups he depicts 410,000 paper cups - equal to the number of disposable hot-beverage paper cups used in the US every fifteen minutes.

Pretty shocking and appalling.



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