Feel the Peel 

The cut out brand name is on the opposite side that you drink from.

@@anton48103 It does not matter on which side the hole is made, because people do not look at the side from which they drink the juice, many times they play with the glass, other times they give it to another person who, out of politeness, usually drinks from the opposite side. By moving the glass from side to side, if the glass is full enough, the contents can be poured ... The alternative ways to have the logo is to print it: with heat or with food coloring

This a pretty gimmicky, but complex, piece of processing machinery. I thinks it's very likely the printer manufactures and stores cups ahead of dispensing. It's not making 'your' cup from the peel of 'your' orange.

When I was travelling in India in the 1980's all the street vendor food was served in un-fired clay cups and bowls. You'd eat the food, then discard the bowl in the street. Kids would collect the bowls to earn pocket money, returning them to be rendered back to clay, remade into bowls and cups and re-distributed for use. I was really impressed. When I returned to India in the late 90's, sadly this practice had significantly diminished, being replaced by plastics. Which, sadly, littered the entire country.

Naah, the holes are there just so that smart assholes like yourself have something to bitch about on youtube.

@@robertj9511 after reading a few comments, I can't believe people actually have an issue with this. It's called *branding* and the cut out is on the opposite side that you drink from. 🤔

The fuel used to grow and transport the oranges is several orders of magnitude greater than the fuel involved in making plastic cups to drink it out of. Plus, corn-based biodegradable PLA cups already exist and producing them in a factory is vastly more efficient, energy-wise, than printing them on-site. That said, it's an interesting demonstration of both using all of the materials transported, and reducing reliance on plastics. It's not really better at scale, but it could start the conversation.

@@oasntet pla is 'biodegradable' but so is everything hats bio material. It still takes years in he perfect condition to degrade. So hot temperatures. Rain. Humidity. But in non ideal conditions still 100+ years. This is more efficient. As I don't belive squishing orange peel takes much energy. Neither does juicing. Better than a plastic bottle aswell

@@littlesayonara3216 Sure but this whole thing is invariably powered by electricity.

@@oasntet Completely agree. This is more a public demonstration of design ethos with the 'notion' of waste reduction and making use of the whole volume of our agricultural produce at it's heart. But there's no way that it's competitive, energetically, with other processes and consumables already on the market. It's a gimmick really, but it will sell orange juice and give people a false sense of satisfaction that 'they' are 'clean and green'. My first thought was that the peel is probably desiccated by fan forced heating, which would have a huge energy load on it's own.

@@littlesayonara3216 You're absolutely right that the conditions PLA is exposed to significantly alters decomposition time. Given that PLA is generally expected to decompose within six months with exposure to the natural environment , I'm not quite sure what your 'ideal conditions' statement adds to the discussion? Surely 'ideal conditions' would be storing the PLA prior to use, in which case you'd want a long shelf life?

It's about using the peel which you'd still be discarding if you ate an orange.

@@jimmyeng663 Sure but it's not like orange peels don't biodegrade. Seems stupid to have to recycle organic waste by using electricity anyway.

@@gregm8871 And they would have to add glue to help the peels become decentl filament

@@gregm8871 it's not about how the peel would be degraded. It's about using peel cups instead plastic cups I guess

@@Blehnanas Correct, why is it so difficult for people to think all the way through their brain capacity before leaving a comment? :)

advertising. It ruins everything for everybody.

It's called *branding* and the cut out is on the opposite side that you drink from.

So solar and wind and hydro and geothermal just don't exist?

Agreed, if they collected the used cups, returned them to the orchard to be composted and returned to the soil, it would close the loop to some extent. But the energy expended in recycling these materials to that extent would more than likely be prohibitively inefficient, and worse for the environment than sending them to the local landfill..

I hope so, I got a ender 3 pro recently and this would be awesome to print with, since it is edible to an extent. Not like I would ever eat it, more like use it for bowls tho, or 3d print an orange with it.

I have thought the same

You do realize that nearly everything that you consume is manufactured in a facility with industrial machinery made of metal that utilizes certain chemicals, right? I mean, unless you're growing your own food, cultivating, preparing, etc than that would be awesome and would significantly reduce your carbon footprint.

Republican Voters Against Trump Exactly: unless... For some reason people usually don’t go organic (I mean the real non-chemically treated food), but... why not? Money? If I buy an orange, it has to be (truly) organic. I don’t see why I would eat stuff with chemicals (even if cheaper) then pay it with my health and doctor/medicine bills.

Run it through renewable energy sources.

Eles transformam a casca da laranja em filamento (material) para impressão 3D, e assim "imprimem" um copo biodegradável a partir da casca da laranja pra você beber o suco :)

Gratidão!

I feel like this comment is very underrated bc it is kinda funny since it's against the machine

How do you know it has rotted before they've been turned into cups?

@@jimmyeng663 watched the video

The inside of a peel is white. Outside orange. Mix then togrther and you get the colour of the cups. They arnt rotten. At all. They will likly be fresh ish. And plastic bottles actually contaminate already a little into drinks. Not enough for health regulations to condemm but still. This is better.

@@littlesayonara3216 Did you not see the pile of brown peels? Unless they were going to make 2000 cups that day it would end up being pretty rancid in that container the next morning. Mold would be a major issue.

@@gregm8871 In order to be turned into cups the peel has to first be desiccated, removing moisture, without the moisture the peel will degrade VERY slowly. However, I suspect there's not a 1 to 1 ratio of juice to cups. Meaning, I doubt very much that there's exactly enough peel to make one cup for each cup of juice produced. So the hopper is probably manually emptied regularly to balance input, output.

It's called *branding* and the cut out is on the opposite side that you drink from.

@@anton48103 It does not matter on which side the hole is made, because people do not look at the side from which they drink the juice, many times they play with the glass, other times they give it to another person who, out of politeness, usually drinks from the opposite side. By moving the glass from side to side, if the glass is full enough, the contents can be poured ... The alternative ways to have the logo is to print it: with heat or with food coloring

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