Edible Coffee Cup, Cupffee Cup, Wafer Cup You Can Eat with Your Coffee, Tea, Espresso and Any hot or Cold Beverage. Eco Friendly, Good for Vegans, Coffee Gifts, Desserts, Yogurt Parfait, etc.

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This makes disposal the most complex issue of the single-use coffee cup life cycle. According to researchers at the University of British Columbia, Canada, the most energy-intensive process of the single-use coffee cup life cycle is raw materials processing and manufacturing. A start-up idea from three Bulgarian friends, the waffle-like recipe is free from preservatives and colorings and can hold coffee for 40 minutes without degrading, making it perfect for on-the-go takeouts. The company has collaborated with coffee brands like Lavazza, which has resulted with the introduction of the Cupffee in 18 countries. The company has been served at Wimbledon and has been used by Etihad Airways from Abu Dhabi to Brisbane on Earth Day. This traction has led to the company’s initial external investment of EUR 500,000 in a pre-seed funding round from Eleven Ventures, and a EUR 1.3M grant from the European Innovation Council. The BioPBS™-lined cup was funded by a consortium that also includes KFC, Pizza Hut, Coca Cola and Nestle, and was discovered after the consortium hosted a NextGen Cup Challenge initiative to find inventors and industry experts with fully biodegradable cup designs. Single-use plastics are causing ‘significant’ harm to our environment and ecosystems, noted entrepreneur Miroslav Zapryanov, who is working to disrupt this trend with an edible alternative to paper/polyethylene coffee cups. The edible cookie cup​

Believe it or not, these kinds of recycling plants do already exist and are in place to solve the issue, however, the real problem lies with how we can actually get our cups to these plants. Edible cups are made with oats and grains locally sourced from Australia. They are 100% vegan and a good source of fiber and vitamin B. Using edible cups won't affect the taste of the coffee. The edible coffee cups are made of natural and high-quality ingredients, so they are tasty and nutritious. But the start-up wants to increase its penetration in existing market, expand its sales and marketing team, and stimulate demand for sustainable edibles. Securing a €1.3m grant from the European Innovation Council (EIC) and closing a €500,000 Pre-Seed investment round led by Eleven Ventures will help it achieve these goals, suggested Zapryanov. More innovative ideas range from drinking straws made from agar seaweed, and food bubbles called WikiPearls. These are bite-sized morsels of food surrounded by edible membranes.

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As long as companies like this continue to take hardline radical approaches to solve the waste crisis, Cupfee will have a future.

Both our wives are semi-involved as well. My wife (Simone Cashmore) is in graphic design and branding, so she’s done all the branding for Twiice, while my father’s wife (Theresa Cashmore) does a lot of stuff with him on the production side of the business. Co-founder Jamie Cashmore sipping from a Twiice cup (Photo: Supplied) Plenty of coffee chains even offer incentives for customers who bring their own cups, with things like discounts or extra loyalty stamps available for environmental do-gooders. It’s a novel idea, but given how much people struggle to put things in the right bin, it’s a stretch to imagine them tootling off to a specified collection point once they’ve finished their drink. The world goes through more than 250 billion plastic-lined, paper drink cups every year, the UN Environment Programme estimates. Only about 1 per cent of those cups are recycled. Good-Edi says about 2.7 million disposable cups find their way to landfills each day in Australia. Despite being scarce outside of one-off marketing promotions, the most common edible option is the biscotti cup. Made using a dense shortbread, these cookie cups are lined with chocolate to provide a barrier for the coffee.Depending on the size (110ml for espressos and short drinks, 220ml for cappuccinos, flat whites and tea etc.) the cups have 56kcal or 105kcal. They are also lightweight, coming in at 14g or 26g respectively. Investment to drive market penetration​ Cupffee is designed for cold or hot drinks and can withstand temperatures of up to 85˚C. “The cup remains crunchy for 40 minutes and does not leak for 12 hours,” ​Zapryanov told FoodNavigator. “The Cupffee cups don’t alter the taste of the beverage – the taste is natural,” ​he added.