Circular&Co Turn Discarded Single-Use Coffee Cups into Reusable Ones
Circular Cup is the latest of innovative products that reuse waste + create value from materials that were destined for landfill.
Former Dyson inventor, Dan Dicker, founded the forerunner to Circular&Co in his garden shed in the far southwest of the UK in 2003. Circular Cup is the latest in a series of innovative products that reuse waste and create value from materials that were once destined for landfill ? in fact, 17 years on, Dan estimates that his company has prevented 187 million single-use cups from entering waste streams. We caught up with him to find out more.
Tell me a little bit about your childhood, education and background in terms of how you first became interested in creativity, design and sustainability.
Wizardry, in a word! To me, product design is a type of witchcraft. I mean that positively because when I was a child the ability to turn what started out as an idea or a drawing in my head into reality seemed magical. Even now, it seems magical and that’s what drives me. Designers are in a unique position of being able to turn ideas ? dreams ? into reality. You have got the functional goals, and you have got every aspect of the thing right in order to meet them, and I find that fascinating and thrilling. From a practical level in education, I enjoyed making things and being hands-on. I liked the fact you could have an idea in your head first and then develop it all the way through to something that would eventually stand there in front o...
Former Dyson inventor, Dan Dicker, founded the forerunner to Circular&Co in his garden shed in the far southwest of the UK in 2003. Circular Cup is the latest in a series of innovative products that reuse waste and create value from materials that were once destined for landfill ? in fact, 17 years on, Dan estimates that his company has prevented 187 million single-use cups from entering waste streams. We caught up with him to find out more.
Tell me a little bit about your childhood, education and background in terms of how you first became interested in creativity, design and sustainability.
Wizardry, in a word! To me, product design is a type of witchcraft. I mean that positively because when I was a child the ability to turn what started out as an idea or a drawing in my head into reality seemed magical. Even now, it seems magical and that’s what drives me. Designers are in a unique position of being able to turn ideas ? dreams ? into reality. You have got the functional goals, and you have got every aspect of the thing right in order to meet them, and I find that fascinating and thrilling. From a practical level in education, I enjoyed making things and being hands-on. I liked the fact you could have an idea in your head first and then develop it all the way through to something that would eventually stand there in front o...
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