A GLOBELET CASE STUDY
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A music festival is an example of a mini city for 3 days.
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Music Festivals have become great case studies for us to test products and systems to bring to the world
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We supply over 40 major music festivals a year.
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Below is a case study on reusables in a mini city vs disposables
Beginning:
An event of 10,000 people normally brought 5* as many disposable cups (50,000).
- Some events went compostable. These were made in Taiwan, shipped to Aus/NZ and used once. If they were lucky they were thrown in the right conditions.
- Some events went recyclable. In 40 years, only 14% of all plastic has been recycled.
Enter Globelet:
- Instead of 50,000 single use cups, we now have 15,000 reusable cups
- Instead of 50,000 single use cups that come from TAIWAN, we now have 15,000 reusable cups that come from New Zealand.
- Instead of 50,000 single use cups that end up on the ground, there is 15,000 reusable cups that somebody picks up as they can return them to us for $1.
- Instead of 50,000 single use cups that will be used once and thrown away, 15,000 Globelet's will be washed, and reused over and over again.
- 75% (11,250) of Globelet's on average get returned to us for reuse. vs 0% (0) single use cups
- 0.1% (15) of Globelet's on average get damaged and have to be recycled in our factory to turn into crates vs 100% of disposables that do not even get recycled
- 0.8% (120) Globelet's find their way into a rubbish bin, and if sorting is done by waste management get returned to us for washing.
Over 7 years that we have been in business, some festivals like Splore Festival has cups that have been washed and returned for over 6 years.
Over 7 years we have cups that have been used over 300 times stopping 300 single use compostable cups.
Educational Impact: The social impact we have on an event is another major factor. Our manifesto is to create the reusable economy and stop the single use mindset that has been installed in us. Our hope is people carry this across into their everyday lives, reusing wherever possible.
Currently there is no compostable product that is reusable and scalable. We are always looking out for this.
You are welcome to use a single use compostable cup or bio cup if you like. But remember
- It is probably made in Asia
- It requires the same amount of energy (oil) to produce as it does a Globelet. All that energy just so you use it once seems sad?
- It needs the right environment to compost and if not, it can release worse emissions than a plastic disposable
