make art, not waste
Today I celebrate a little milestone – 20 coffee cups saved from landfill.
Not too long ago, I became very aware of the huge quantities of coffee the RedBubble office consumes. (The internet never sleeps and neither shall we!)
I probably should have been concerned about the adrenalin pumping heart tremor causing effects of caffeine, but instead I set off on a personal crusade to reduce the number of take away coffee cups we were throwing out each week.
My first attempt was to drink fewer cups of coffee. I got the shakes as withdrawal set in, and was only saving 2-4 coffee cups from landfill per day. I declared this tactic a dismal failure and pledged to do better.
Thankfully, Russell knew a stylish and aesthetically pleasing place for us to pick up some reusable plastic cups for those times when our caffeine levels are critical. So we ordered a bunch and now every staff member here has one.
The amount of coffee cup waste has significantly reduced and today I ordered my 20th guilt free cappuccino with one sugar. It felt good. Very good.

But then I wondered about all the other disposable coffee cups out there. This got me searching for some cool things you can do with them. It turns out, quite a lot…
The lantern festival and reusing coffee cups
Foam cup drawings sell for hundreds
Coffee cup masks
Learn to make coffee cup tissue dispensers
Take the coffee cup challenge

Comments
A cup you can take to cafes? What a brilliant idea.
The simplest ideas are often the best. The cafe loves them too because they are the exact same size as standard take away cups.
– Jo O'Brien
Here Jo I know the relationship that youi have with certain types of machines and made you this reusable coffee cup

Enjoy
Randy
My washing machine fetish isn’t exactly a secret then huh?
Love it!
– Jo O'Brien
LOL, this is a wonderful Journal, Jo, and your links lead to sites which are really cool . . . and handy! Although I have to wonder at the sanity of someone who’d pay $US120.00 for one with a drawing on it.
People make very expensive art out of all sorts of things
– Jo O'Brien
Oohh, where do you get the cups from?
We bought ours from keepcup.com.au but there are plenty of places your can get them.
– Jo O'Brien
Hooray for recycling and reusing and for your brilliant, sexy mind!! Love the idea immensely. Now, if I ever spent any real time anywhere other than inside my house with my glass mug with the one million USD bill on it … (I’ll have to take a photo of it now, I’m sure) … yeah.
You rock, Sweetpea. Always thinking. xox
So what you’re saying is that
a. you always reuse your coffee cup
b. you save petrol by staying home
c. I have a sexy mind
Sounds, pretty good to me ;)
– Jo O'Brien
awesome
hello there you :)
– Jo O'Brien
Now that is something I would love to see but the impossibility of getting there makes it a wish which will remain unfulfilled. thanks for the link, Jo, it’s very interesting, and fascinating.
Hiiiiiii! x
a. I reuse it to the point where the paint is chipping away.
b. I prefer to walk everywhere, anyway. Makes it easier to capture things with the camera. ;)
c. Damn right, you do!
xox
awesome recycling job jo ;) xoxox TK ♥
Cheers TK, and we’re doing it in style!
– Jo O'Brien