Bulk Dispenser: A“Boxed Water is Better” Proposal
We’re all doing our part these days to be green and recycle, but it doesn’t just stop there, what if we took the old and useless and improvised from that to create a totally new, useful product? Cartons are already more green than plastic bottles since they are already much more easily recyclable. Branching from the idea of a container, I approached this Upcycling project with the idea of extending it’s shelf life to beyond just drinking, but a container to help with the place at home where all our drinks, food, and water come from, the Kitchen. By simply adding some instructional lines and a cut or two, the humble carton can be transformed into a fully container dispenser.
This dispenser -carton design can be used to store numerous types of dry goods from Walnuts to Peppercorns. Users are among any kitchen user, from the stay-at-home-mom to the young students of a university. The dispensers can be hole punched to run a line through and hang on wire like many studio apartments have. This wire hanging system is a popular invention brought on by the IKEA corporation with their many hanging shelving units. With the simplicity of these kind of furnishings, the appeal of a disposable, yet still reusable dispenser, would be large. Why the hassle of transforming this carton into a dispenser? Cartons and dispensers are used so much in our kitchen lives, it would only make sense to merge the two worlds and create a more unified and self-dependent kitchen. With enough cartons a large system of removable, reusable, and disposable can become a large part of a person’s kitchen, thoroughly extending the humble carton’s life past the hands of the drinker.
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