Why festivals stopped using compostable cups?

When Splore festival decided to introduce Globelet, the main cause for change was that they were consuming over 5 compostable cups per person.

With Globelet they only needed 1.5 cups per person. 

That is almost five times less cups consumed per person. 

How can a disposable product be ecological?

A biodegradable cup, like any cup, requires the consumption of raw materials for it's manufacture.

Every cup that is made, regardless that it is made of compostable material, requires the same amount of energy as it takes to produce a Globelet. 

What does this mean?

5 times as many cups a produce per person when a compostable cup is used and every cup is produced for single use. 

Biodegradable cups are not eliminated immediately from this earth and take a significant amount of time to degrade.

The worst part: Biodegradable cups need to be sorted perfectly to be used for compost.

THE RESULT

A Globelet cup is circular

• MADE IN NEW ZEALAND

• REUSED (100 TIMES)

• REUSABLE LOCALLY (WASH) AT OUR WASHING CENTRES

• REFURBISH LOCALLY (WE CAN REPRINT THE CUP)

• RECYCLED LOCALLY (WE CAN RECYCLE ANY OF OUR CUPS IN NEW ZEALAND)

A Compostable cup is linear 

• MADE IN CHINA

• USED (1 TIME)

• DISCARDED

• COMPOSTED (IF IT IS LUCKY TO MAKE IT TO THE COMPOST FACTORY)