The Home Stretch: an environmentally-friendly, fun, and fascinating food and beverage carrier.
Long description
There are over 50 million fast food meals served every day in the United States, and they all need to be carried from counter to table to car to home. The Home Stretch is a food and beverage carrier that is reusable, recyclable, and does what no bag has ever done before — carry up to 10 pounds of fountain drinks and food containers in a way that is safe for both the user and the environment.
There are two versions of the product: (1) Multi-product carrier — it’s a picnic basket, placemat, poster, and reusable shopping bag. It cradles up to four fountain drinks plus food; the drink lids are offset so that they don’t hit each other and cause spills. (2) Single cup carrier — the product carries one coffee cup and can be carried on a bicycle. Test samples for both products are currently made from recyclable, tear-resistant polypropylene, but there are new, natural materials in development so that they can be made of biodegradable materials.
After initial use, the product has a long life: as a shopping bag, as a beach bag, as a placemat, as a poster, as a souvenir. The polypropylene that we are using is ideal for full-color printing using ecologically-safe inks.
The manufacture of the product is simple — raw sheets of material are printed (using soy-based inks) and die-cut. No chemicals are used in the manufacture of the product.
The Home Stretch is protected by U.S. utility patents 9301594 and 9861169.
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