Great idea. They serve chai like that from street vendors in India.

These cups including other utensils is been popular in India since ages

People aren't seeming to understand that this is not about the re-useability of the cups, it's just replacing plastic with a more environmentally friendly alternative. Plastic does not break down when put in trash or landfills, but the clay cups will. Too many nay-sayers in these comments. It's a good idea!

These would make great starters for new plants and herbs temporarily. Definitely can get two uses out of these.

the neat thing is the cup can be used for so many other crafts/hobbies after use. i vibe with it🤘

This is a great idea for coffee shops, fast food and restaurants to start doing this now. I really hope this will work its way into stores for ready made food too.

GREAT! More of this please

Props to This Coffee Company for Trying New Inventive Ways of Being Green.

What a clever idea! Hopefully it'll catch on.

So if this is 3d printed on the go, it can't be in any way kiln fired to seal it up, the last thing I want his a hot liquid going into a container "mined from the Earth" that is in no way sealed. And if it is some way sealed I don't think this is as composable as advertised. What happened to the concept of paper cups?

I can see using the ceramic cups for seed starters or for plants to have a temporary place until planted. I don't drink coffee but it will be worth a cup of coffee to test my planting theory. 😃 ☕

That's not greener. The amount of energy to make a clay cup is many times greater than paper. Once you factor in the customers who throw away the clay cup after just a single use, it will equal at least a dozen paper cups or more per average.

Brilliant idea! 🙌💖

Beautiful

hope they test for lead and cadmium

How creative Art classes should make these

....I can live without it... never had a cup in my life.

Ooooh! Good option. I'm definitely going to try this for sure.

I like it! Hopefully it catches on

Overconsumption is the main cause of landfills same with this. Not the most sustainable for the buisness unless they're charging more for the packaging. BYO is a better option

basically kulhad coffee

This is the way. Maybe it's not replacing the cup problem, but it's a hell of a lot better than traditional plastic.

Good stuff

Main problem is that clay can still become heated because liquid can transfer heat and cold temp to materials like clay that liquid can transfer any temp to but there’s no caution to warn of any hot liquid meaning restaurant is gonna get sued when accidents happen

If people don't reuse the thing it'll end up spending more energy

Great idea🍀🍀🍀🍀👍🏻

Still no one says how much they cost !!!

Cost?

An interesting idea!

clay is known to hold many toxic metals like lead, how do you know its processed and checked well it its so neutralizing!

Hopefully this will catch on here in the U.S.🤞

Nice idea, but just bring your own cup, or better yet, make your coffee at home! Save a bunch of money too.

Is it a greener option considering they have to use an over wouldn’t it make gases?

Bravo! Thats what we always used in India 🙏🏾

How it this sanitary?

Clay has lead

Now they just need to invent a lid.

What's the water and carbon footprint of the clay cups compared to paper and plastic? What's the cost per cup compared to others? Is the process patented or open source? What is the manufacturing process? So many unasked, unanswered, and unaddressed questions.

You forgot to mention, how much does the customer have to add for this special cup?

That's called a mug

Wow headline of the year

And that’s why it’s $10 for a cup of black coffee in California

What would be better is only serving customers who bring their own reusable cup.

Ceramic can take thousands of years to break down. It's kind of a big part of how we do archeology.

It's a cool concept but anyone who's "on the go" with a hot cup of coffee wants a lid.

Sanjeev u took a gr8 decision that also helps to empower people from where u buy

like the bags at grocers, educate your clients to bring their own cup !!! How did the grocers do it ? THEY STOPPED GIVING OUT BAGS!!

I have been living without coffee for 38 years. 😁

MMMMM, Flower Pot Java!

How much lead in the clay? At present, the FDA doesn't require dishes to be 100% lead-free. Acidic food or drink is especially likely to cause lead to leach out of ceramics.

What is a porsolin cup????

So it's ceramic but not ceramic

I just use plastic everything and throw it away afterwards even silverware saves me so much time on dishes!

Maybe add an incentive for bringing your own cup!? $2 less with your own. Then you can use there in house washable cups, pour into customers cup so that cup never comes into contact with the equipment. But if it did, wouldn't be any different than any gas station or eatery that encourages you to buy their reusable cups. Hell even the theater and macayos give out "souvenir cups" for cheaper refills

Clay cup is used since ancient era.

This is not cost effective for both the consumer and establishments. A compostable paper cup is fine. Personally, if politicians would do more virtual meetings rather than flying around in their private jets on a regular basis, it would help the planet way more.

You can print it, but then you have to fire it. Heat takes energy. Energy makes pollution.

They’re disposable! Ohh cool

What a novel idea!

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

So like pottery?

Wow a cup made of clay how incredibly innovative

how about using edible clay and making the whole thing edible?

Glass and ceramic and paper left the chat. And wow, the terracotta cup ("ceramic") is "environmentally friendly".... How much gas does it take to cook the clay?

I know we've been using clay pots for millennia, but how safe is it to accidentally swallow bits and pieces of it?

sooo umm there is a word for clay cup.... ceramic The problem being the MASSIVE amount of dredging for clay this would result in if we replaced all plastic and paper cups with ceramic.

Can’t go back to earth if it’s trapped in a plastic bag.

Starbucks charges you to get your own reusable cup plus charges you to use the same cup multiple times plus additional charges, too

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Hooray 🎊

WAIT THIS IS ACTUALLY A W THE CUPS MUST FEEL HIGHER QUALITY TOO

I like how the founders surname is “Mankotia” which roughly translates to the word “clay pot” in my language.

Idk about coffee but have you tried drinking water out of a clay cup ? Its refreshing and earthy.

anything disposable is a waste of energy when you can bring your own cup to be filled, barring sanitation concerns

Bet a small cup costs 20 dollars

as a normal human who is not addicted to coffee, i can only laugh

If people want it to go they can't be sloshing coffee all over their car. It doesn't stay hot as long in that, and who is testing the disposable ceramic for heavy metals? Can fired clay cups really be broken down ?

Send me one

This is like a clay flower pot..I wouldn't want to put my lip on it as it doesn't have a glaze coating..

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It goes back to nature, so you can just throw it in the ground and feel justified because it's not really littering is its just dirt? I wonder how much extra these cups cost.

1000 years back in India

Of course it's California

so human go 360dgree😂 our ancestors use clay stuff and now get it back

20 yrs for this?

That's pretty innovative. But is it cost effective, especially for small cafes just opening their doors? It's also worth noting that this experiment could not have happened without the liberty to explore new possibilities. The state could have easily banned this owner from implementing his new idea, for no other reason than because they didn't think of it first. As they have done before, multiple times, depriving ALL of America of some ingenious new solutions.

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Yes. Now make mcdonalds and them all use them. The main contributers need to use them. Dont give options or wait for them to "catch on" if its for the environment

yea its a cool idea but that isnt the main cup their giving to people when they order coffee. they said its an option which means they probably charging extra for that cup which makes it a bad idea now. if im use to getting the same cup of coffee for 4 bucks and now u telling me i gotta pay an additional 2 bucks just for a different cup,why would i do that? and lets not kid ourselves,this isnt a game changer or anything and its not gonna start any change. the only thing that could happen from this is other companies will use this as a way to make more money off people and pretend its all about them caring about the environment

Naw

Matka chya , coffee ballaa banauna thalaycha . Nepal , India ma ta paila dekhi nai cha

I know that behind this idea is someone from asia

thought that cup founder would be indian as he used clay !!

Tea tastes better when it's in a porcelain or in a tin cup.

There’s been going on for so long Mexico has it. They’re the one who created him for their alcohol. Look it up.

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Just another excuse for them to jack up the price of a cup of coffee.

I wanna learn Thai.

The so called founder of such cups brings the idea from his home nation where we used these kind of cups made of clay most of the time

this is outrageous