Reduce. Reuse. Grow., a company from San Luis Obispo, California, successfully completed a Kickstarter for a coffee cup that can either be used for compost or planted.
The “World’s First Plantable Coffee Cup” is made from post-consumer recyclable paper and contains tree seeds native to California. Planting instructions are printed on the underside of the cup.
The company states:
“We have developed a post consumer paper based cup which will be able to extract over 1 ton of CO2 out of the atmosphere annually once planted. We have taken those fibers from local recycling centers, which would usually be too rough to implement back into a packaging product, and created a cup that we are happy to truly name the most eco friendly disposable coffee cup. If you decide to throw away and not plant, no problem. The cup is compost certified and will be able to biodegrade within 180 days leaving the seeds and cup itself to turn into nutrients for other plants to enjoy!”
This reminds us of the Sian Pascale’s Disposable Chai Cups we wrote about earlier. We’re excited that other people are picking up on the idea.
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