GreenBiz reports that since joining the Coca-Cola Company in 1997, Scott Vitters has gone to work most days with one question on his mind: How do we get to our vision of a 100 percent renewable, 100 percent recyclable bottle?” It’s a simple question, with anything but a simple answer — getting to a renewable, […]
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To reduce the number of plastic water bottles that end up in landfills, consumers are encouraged to buy reusable bottles reports trendspotter Springwise. Since those can be bulky to carry along, a company in Thousand Oaks, California designed an alternative. Vapur is a reusable water bottle that flattens when empty. Like a regular bottle, it
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Fast Company has an interesting article about Douwe Egberts, the market leader in tea and coffee, that has unveiled its conceptual BeMoved vending machine, which promises to elevate human-coffee interaction “to a higher level.” Literally. As in, you have to jump for your java. Okay, to be fair, that feature, part of an interactive game
The Akron Beacon Journal reports that when Matt and Kathy Chappel decided to open the Indigo Imp Brewery in Cleveland, they wanted their beer to stand apart. So they opted for an unusual beer-making process — at least for U.S. brewers. They use open fermentation, which exposes the soon-to-be beer to the air and means
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Reader’s Digest has an interesting story about former spy, now entrepreneur, Greg Quinn. A tall, brawny Irish American walks into your office, puts a crystal goblet on the desk, and pours out a serving of a deep-purple nectar. “This stuff used to be illegal,” he says in a gravelly voice. “We’re the guys who got
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Fast Company has an interesting story on an alternative to bottled water. Designer Oliver Craig attempts to remedy the bottled water conundrum with the Source Project, a system that requires stores to place a Source Water Fountain outside their shops. When consumers buy a Source Water Bottle, they are granted use of the fountains. Each
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Even in this enlightened age of recycling, a majority of all bottles and cans end up in landfills. More than 200 billion beverage containers are sold each year in the U.S., says the nonprofit Container Recycling Institute, but fewer than 75 billion are recycled. That isn’t just bad for the environment — it’s money left
Star Tribune: By her own admission, Lindsey Valentini’s headlong flight into the gourmet tea business did not initially promise a very smooth landing. She had no idea how to create a marketable tea blend, Valentini said, noting that the results of experiments with various blends in her kitchen “weren’t nearly good enough.” Once she’d cleared
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Cracked: It’s no surprise that one of most profitable companies ever would want to keep their formula a secret. Even with hundreds of imitators, Coke still dominates world-wide sales of caramel colored drinks. But doesn’t that stuff only have, like, four ingredients? Fizzy water, high fructose corn syrup, caffeine and Brown Dye #4? There isn’t
CNNMoney: Johnny Valdene and Travis Hollman were running a toy company that sold $6 million in marshmallow shooters every year. At a trade fair in New York City they saw an attendee collapsing from what looked like a heart attack. Paramedics later told them that the man had in fact suffered an anxiety attack —
