Not Your Typical Disposable Cup…

by efish 22. July 2010 16:50

Unlike most paper and plastics cups that end up in the trash bin—and eventually in a land fill—after being used, a new disposable cup from product design consultants The Way We See The World is designed to wind up somewhere else: Either in your stomach or as fertilizer in your lawn and garden.

That’s right, these cups, called “Jelloware,” can either be eaten or act as plant food. This is because they’re made from agar agar, a gelatinous seaweed extract that nurtures plant growth. And while seaweed extract may not sound incredibly appetizing, Jelloware cups have a flexible composition similar to Jell-O and are cast in flavors like lemon-basil, ginger-mint and rosemary-beet, so they’re intended to be eaten, too.

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According to The Way We See The World, the Jelloware cups re-imagine the concept of drinking and provide a new experience in the way it feels, smells, moves, tastes and—perhaps most importantly—is disposed of. After all, some 58 billion disposable cups find their way into land fills each year.

Comments

8/26/2010 8:28:07 PM #

Awesome. Where can we buy them?

Pamela Waterman

8/26/2010 8:29:32 PM #

Awesome. Where can we buy them?

Pamela Waterman

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