What does Dripl stand for? Discover our mission here. 

Kipling Satchels

Flashback to 2010, when my generation wore skinny jeans and kipling satchels. Water from plastic bottles? Normal. 10 years later, not only has our fashion sense improved, we have become more climate conscious, eco-awareness is present. The reusable drinking bottle has become an established value. Shoutout to the Doppers and the Sodastreams of the world 💘

Drinking water has evolved tremendously positively, but wait? What about the other half? Everything with taste?

The mountain of waste and more

A can of cola from the drinks machine, or a bottle of iced tea from Delhaize, these soft drinks are still only available in disposable packaging. This in 2020? Say what? Every day, so many bottles and cans are discarded, if you throw them together in a pile, that you end up with a mountain of waste as high as the Eifel tower.

This waste of cans and bottles involves an enormous amount of transportation. Soft drinks are really just water with a flavour added. This means that there are countless vans driving around filled with up to 80% water. This, while tap water is available everywhere? Ridiculous. 🤷‍♂️

We go one step further. Unfortunately, if you look at the taste itself, it is still always unhealthy. Either an abundance of sugars, or the soft drinks are 'zero calories', but stuffed with chemical crap.

As a result of these three aspects, the beverage industry is one of the most sustainable-inefficient industries in the world. The climate impact of enjoying a fresh lemonade, and the climate impact that is now being realized, are miles apart.

A mini-soft drink factory

With Dripl we are turning the current soft drink industry upside down. We introduce a new way of consuming tasty drinks.

With Dripl, we want to reinvent the current soft drink industry. The Dripl Refill Point is a the packaging-free drink dispenser, where you can fill a drinking bottle with a healthy lemonade. Ginger-lime, elderflower or an iced tea: low in sugar and completely natural.

The Refill Point is going to filter tap water, cool it, add effervescence to it and finally mix it with a flavour concentrate.

This is how we decentralize the production of soft drinks, all small soft drink factories as it were.

Sustainable Empowerment

We are convinced that the current and most common way of proposing sustainable solutions is outdated. The negative doom and gloom thinking and counting on fear to change people's behavior is over. It has now been proven that the climate documentaries do not help much, on the contrary, I am getting a bit depressed?

Hence, the Dripl Refill Point should be a solution that is a no-brainer. It is a sustainable alternative that is so nice to use, so tasty and also price-friendly, that people don't even have to think about choosing sustainability, the offer you can't refuse.

We are pro-sustainable empowerment, a positive movement that revolves around practical solutions. Products and mechanisms that bring about fundamental change. Here we look at mission-driven companies that make an impact, just like Tiemie and Toogoodtogo, among others.

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