AWARD YEAR
2015
CATEGORY
Body
GOALS
No Poverty
KEYWORDS
coffee, recycling, reforestation
COUNTRY
United States of America
DESIGNED BY
Reduce. Reuse. Grow.
WEBSITE
http://www.planttrash.com/
Plantable Coffee Cup
a coffee cup that has native seeds embedded within the material to be used for reforestation
In America alone, over 145 billion disposable coffee cups are discarded annually. People’s coffee habits have led to a startling amount of waste, much of which fails to end up in recycling bins. Then again, they can only be reused a couple of times before they end up in landfills too. Enter the seeded cup: made of post-consumer paper, these compost-certified cups have organic native wildflower seeds embedded in them, so they can be planted after use to help replenish barren soil and attract/feed indigenous local pollinators.