Breakfast meeting

We're having an impromptu breakfast meeting on Portland Cup ideas. Here we go with a list of sorts.

Open Cup specification will spur cottage industries or full-blown business ventures of cup accessories. CAD files are available so if you want to make a special lid that seals so you can throw The Cup in your bike bag, go for it.

It's okay if Portland Cups leave PDX because they will be great marketing for the City of Portland. Every Cup display could have a collection box so that out-of-towners could buy their Cups as a souvenir on the honor system and take it home. The Cups could bear a PDX portal web address. Travel Portland will surely be into it: http://www.travelportland.com/

Cups could be branded with supporters logos and such. I'm pretty strongly opposed to this. The Cup should be a Portland Cup, not a "Coffee Shop Business Association Cup" or a "Big Box Store, Inc. Cup". The Cup should be uniform and ubiquitous, not produced in limited editions which would promote leakage to collectors.

Cup redistribution could be done by the fleet of bicycle and trailer equipped people who currently cruise for bottles and cans for recycling. Safe delivery of cups would be worth cash money.

Clean Cups could be issued with a modest deposit, 10 cents or so which could be claimed by those returning them to participating wash site. I don't think this would be a good idea, because it would place an accounting and cash flow burden on businesses (retailers hate having to deal with bottle/can return) and would make The Cup less a basic right of Portland citizenship.

The Cups are returned to business's bus tubs or to racks adopted by businesses with dishwashers. The racks should be on top of the redesigned compost/recycle/landfill sorter centers that will replace current trash cans. We need folks to design the racks and sorter centers.

Need to interface with farmers market Durable Dish program folks. http://www.montavillamarket.org/dish.html
recycle@montavillamarket.org


Need to interface with Metro.

Need to interface with Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability.
http://www.portlandonline.com/bps/

More to follow....

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