Jungle Cup®: First 100% compostable disposable cup

All disposable cups contain plastic. Even the cardboard cups have an inner layer of thin plastic to prevent leaks. There have been disposable cups with a bioplastic film layer on the market for some time now. But they also have to be recycled in special incinerators; something that is rare in practice. So we still throw away millions of these cups every day. Worldwide, that's 16 billion disposable cups a year.

The first and only

BrandBase, a Dutch company, took up the challenge to develop an environmentally friendly alternative that works just as well as disposable plastic cups. Paul Alberts, founder of Brandbase: "This means that you have to make a cup that can handle both hot and cold drinks, is suitable for printing and doesn't cost much to make. And we succeeded. Our cups are already for sale from € 0.03 each".

The Jungle Cup® has obtained all the necessary strict environmental certificates, including the most important, the 'OK compost HOME' certificate, which indicates that it can be composted naturally, without industrial processing.

12 weeks versus 1,500 years

Jungle Cup® is the first disposable cup that is 100% compostable at home. So after use, the Jungle Cup® can be disposed of in a compost bin. After 12 weeks these cups start to disappear. Bioplastic takes about 1.500 years to disappear... Real plastic never completely disappears. The Jungle Cup® helps in the fight against Ocean Plastic. The lid is made of bagasse, which is the pulp of sugar cane.

Why the name Jungle Cup®?

For every cup sold, the Rainforest Trust receives a percentage of the proceeds. Paul Alberts: "Those proceeds are used to protect the rainforest, 1m2 per cup to be exact.

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