The gold standard of to-go beverage packaging – and it’s reusable! Perfect for hot and cold beverages.
✓ Enhanced customer experience.
✓ Price competitive to incumbents (at scale).
✓ Available in multiple sizes – 8oz (240mL), 10oz (300mL), 12oz (360mL), and 16oz (480mL).
“GaeaStar’s Clay Cups are a disruptive innovation in the coffee to go industry and present a window of opportunity to create a significant positive change. A change in elevating the drinking experience of our customers to a new level.”
Ramon Schalch
ViCOLLECTIVE CEO
“Our partnership with GaeaStar has the potential to transform the future of to-go coffee. We know it’s not always convenient for customers to bring their own cup, so this is the perfect solution, enabling elevated in-cafe experiences with the convenience of to-go, and without the guilt of takeaway packaging. We’re excited to offer our customers a new way to enjoy their cup of coffee that brings quality, sustainability, and an elevated experience.”
Colby Barr
Verve CEO & Founder
“Integrating GaeaStar’s reusable and eco-friendly Clay Cups into our café has been a game-changer. Not only do they elevate the premium experience for our customers, but they also align with our commitment to sustainability, proving that innovation and environmental responsibility can go hand in hand.”
Joe Parenteau
Co-founder and CEO, Fable
“GaeaStar's Clay Cups set a new standard for sustainability in the consumables space. Their innovation is both inspiring and perfectly aligned with Counter Culture Coffee’s dedication to environmental responsibility.”
Christy Duggan
Marketing Manager, Counter Culture
"At Café William, we’re always looking for ways to push the boundaries of sustainability in the coffee industry. Partnering with GaeaStar has allowed us to explore innovative solutions that align with our values while enhancing the customer experience. We’re excited to be part of this journey and to see the impact we can create together."
Marc-Antoine Crépeau
Regional Director, Café William
“GaeaStar's Clay Cups bring an innovative product to the Pittsburgh coffee scene. Many of our guests want to make decisions that positively affect our environment. This cup allows them to make an easy move towards sustainability through an item they use on a daily basis.”
Lauren Young
VP of Operations & Marketing, Commonplace Coffee
GaeaStar cups are made out of clay, water and salt. To be specific, our clay & glaze are composed of naturally occurring minerals including silica, quartz, mica, kaolin, and other minerals.
GaeaStar’s manufacturing technology leverages both elements of traditional ceramic processing and modern additive techniques to create our vessels - We create the entire surface of the vessel all at once via our surface printing technology, forming the product shape in seconds. With the shape fully formed, the product follows our innovative and connected finishing processes which are akin to that of traditional ceramics including glaze application and firing.
Yes! We want to make single use history and embrace circularity. Reuse our cups as many times as you can for drinks, food or they also make great homes for plants or candles. They only stop working when broken by the user.
First, embrace circularity and reuse your containers! Think creatively about how your container could be given a second life! If you do choose to discard it, you can put them in the regular trash. Once they’re disposed of, they disintegrate into fragments and dust by mechanical force. Earth going back to Earth.
Yes! In the following ways:
Health - our products are 100% plastic-free so no microplastics, plasticizers, emulsifiers or any other toxin.
Environment - Our proprietary manufacturing process has a similar carbon footprint to existing paper+plastic packaging for single-use. We achieve this by drastically reducing the mass of production parts, where we enable low energy ceramic manufacturing, and combine it with localized production, supply chains and the use of renewable energy. Oh and by the way, following the principles of circularity, our products are designed to be used multiple times, so the impact gets even less the more times the product is used.
We have conducted a preliminary LCA with a professional independent third-party to review and guide our fundamental technology development. As our production technology matures, we’ll be pursuing further studies that will be published publicly. In our research to-date, we have learned that:
Our ceramic is fundamentally a better material choice for end-of-life effects (it’s inert!).
Our ultra thin vessels dramatically reduce the impact of the firing process that typically hampers classic ceramic manufacturing.
Our products have similar carbon footprint to paper/plastic single use products.
→ Plus! Our products are reusable!
→ Plus! Our technology is only 2 years old- and we’re just getting started!
Yes! We offer a reusable silicone lid for our 10oz, 12oz and 16oz cups. In-line with our ethos of waste reduction & circularity, we recommend you reuse your silicone lid.
If you are interested in becoming a partner, please submit a product inquiry on our contact page, and tell us a little bit more about you and your company. We will get back to you as soon as possible.
