I hope to see this product become commonplace
I hope to see this product become commonplace
Unless you could recycle them or they were biodegradable they would be a HUGE waste. Just bend the cup in half!
Bending the cup still loses half the fluid.
Pizzaguy wrote:
Unless you could recycle them or they were biodegradable they would be a HUGE waste. Just bend the cup in half!
can't stack them
I'm sure they could be recycled
and you could stack the lids and cups seperately
My kids have these, they are called Sippy cups lol
Problem I see, if you are cruising through an aid station, grabbing a cup fast and hard, how many times is that top going to pop off the paper cup, just like they do in your lap sometimes if you squeeze the McD's soda too hard or put it between your legs while driving. Plus, if you have hundreds on a table, now you can't stick a finger in the cup and grab by the rim, so now you grab the top and it pops off, or grab from the side and squeeze, pops off? Might work better for slow people, but not at hard pace.
Its not complicated wrote:
Bending the cup still loses half the fluid.
OH CRAP! Damn it, I forgot about that. AND THEN YOU HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL THE NEXT WATER STOP TO GET MORE! There goes all my $$$$$, spilled ALL over the pavement :(
heartland-runner wrote:
I'm sure they could be recycled
and you could stack the lids and cups seperately
If you've ever worked a water station, you would know that the people manning the station typically stack the filled cups multiple levels high before the runners start coming through, with some kind of barrier in between (like a piece of cardboard). This would not be possible with the lids on the cups.
It might be possible to have someone putting lids on the top layer of cups or something like that, but the point is that it would take a little more of a change to the way people run water stops than you might think.
I would probably push for marathons to start using this for the elite fields when runners are spread far enough apart that volunteers have time to spare.
why not just run with a straw on a chain?
Back in the days that I was doing Twin Cities marathon, an aid station near 20 was manned (well mostly women) by Burger King. They just brought their fast food cups, lids, and straws. So you would pick up a sealed cup with a straw. So very nice. Not sure if they still do that.
And pinching a paper cup is as good as anyone needs.