Comments on: drink sustainable http://idealist.blinkr.net/drink-sustainable/ dreamed objects Sat, 17 May 2008 10:11:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.6 by: EbonRose http://idealist.blinkr.net/drink-sustainable/#comment-20071 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:56:58 +0000 http://idealist.blinkr.net/drink-sustainable/#comment-20071 You are totally correct about people leaving liquid in the cans being a problem. While I was growing up it was my job to crush all the cans for the house, and my stepfather's beer was always the worst, because he'd never finish a can and there would be this nasty soup in the bottom of our collection bucket. Anyway, one way to get around this would be to set the cardboard piece up more like a table and put some type of plastic catch basin underneath it. Then your guests could take a can out of the table, and return the empty one upside down so that it would properly drain before being recycled. You are totally correct about people leaving liquid in the cans being a problem. While I was growing up it was my job to crush all the cans for the house, and my stepfather’s beer was always the worst, because he’d never finish a can and there would be this nasty soup in the bottom of our collection bucket.

Anyway, one way to get around this would be to set the cardboard piece up more like a table and put some type of plastic catch basin underneath it. Then your guests could take a can out of the table, and return the empty one upside down so that it would properly drain before being recycled.

]]> by: iynque http://idealist.blinkr.net/drink-sustainable/#comment-19997 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:08:43 +0000 http://idealist.blinkr.net/drink-sustainable/#comment-19997 So people jam empty cans into a cardboard wall? I sure hope everyone is nice enough to completely empty the cans first.... Does the whole thing get recycled afterward? ...or do you wait for fruit flies? I think it's a really exciting start and addresses a problem that needs a solution, but this doesn't seem quite done to me. You have to consider that there will most likely be at least a little, if not a lot, of liquid left in the can. If anyone can come up with a stylish way to keep a party clean and address the issue of beverage remnants, I'll buy it. So people jam empty cans into a cardboard wall?

I sure hope everyone is nice enough to completely empty the cans first….

Does the whole thing get recycled afterward? …or do you wait for fruit flies?

I think it’s a really exciting start and addresses a problem that needs a solution, but this doesn’t seem quite done to me. You have to consider that there will most likely be at least a little, if not a lot, of liquid left in the can.

If anyone can come up with a stylish way to keep a party clean and address the issue of beverage remnants, I’ll buy it.

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