Ever felt dismayed by the large number of disposable cups used at festivals?
Stone & Wood and Mullum Music Festival will be eliminating single-use cups from the festival with the launch of their Cup Exchange.
Sarah Blomkamp from the local brewery said that they had devoted a ‘crazy amount’ of time to finding a viable alternative. ‘We’re just stoked to be able to trial it at the festival and hopefully be able to integrate this solution at more events in the future,’ she said.
‘The cups should never end up in landfill. Drinkers will be able to purchase their cup with their first drink. The cup can then be taken home to be used again and again or returned for a refund. For those drinkers wishing to have another beer they can exchange it for a fresh cup for no extra cost. All cups will be removed offsite and commercially washed to Australian Food Safety standards. The cups will then be returned to Stone & Wood to be used for future events.’
Stone & Wood hope that the Mullum Festival trial will be successful, leading to every Stone & Wood event nationally eventually using these cups.
The cups do not need to be recycled in commercial recycling centres because they are all 100 per cent recycled back at cup manufacturer and supplier Globelet.
Globelet cups are made of polypropylene #5, which is BPA free, tough and durable and made to withstand high heats ensuring the cups will last 100s of washes or years of events.
And for those who want to be assured that every detail has been considered, the waste water produced by the Globelet washing procedure is non-polluting as it uses a washing solution that is environmentally friendly and created by ECOSTORE.
To add nail-biting drama the cups arrived just two days before the Festival – here is Stone & Wood Green Coast in the 420ml schooner cups.
The Roordahuizum drinking horn, made in the mid-16th century by silversmith Albert Jacobs Canter, is completely dissimilar in almost every respect to the new Stone & Wood cups: they will be brand new, transparent, durable, easily cleanable, plastic, cheap, symmetrical and largely free of 500-year-old mead dregs.
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