Packaging-free soft drinks: iTapToo's vending machines are on TU Delft Campus
Fancy a flavoured chilled drink that doesn't come from a plastic bottle? You can now do so at five locations on campus with the help of iTapToo vending machines. The iTapToo vending machine offers 6 different flavours of soft drinks, which you can tap into your own reusable bottle or a Billie Cup. This makes packaging-free drinking easy and this reduces the use of single-use plastic.
With the iTapToo, TU Delft is taking a step towards reducing single-use plastic on campus and the sustainability ambition: to become carbon neutral, climate-adaptive and circular by 2030, with a focus on biodiversity and quality of life.
Locations
The iTapToo vending machines are located at 5 locations on the TU Delft Campus: Aula, Architecture & the Built Environment, Civil Engineering & Geosciences, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics & Computer Science and Echo. These vending machines offer six flavours: lime-lemon, mint-raspberry, blueberry, pineapple, elderflower, iced tea-peach. All drinks are sugar-free and chilled. With one tap, one PET bottle or can is saved.
iTapToo locations on campus:
- Aula Foodsquare restaurant entrance
- EEMCS Goodish restaurant first floor
- CEG Foodsquare restaurant 6th floor
- Echo Foodture restaurant entrance
- ABE, Management in the Built Environment, first floor
All flavours are gluten free, lactose- free and sugar free and completely plant-based.
Campus as a testing ground for innovation
In January 2023, TU Delft organised a Green Dragons' Den, based on the television programme but with a focus on sustainable innovations. Here, several companies pitched their idea to a jury. In the sustainability ambition, the TU Delft Campus will be opened as a testing ground for sustainable innovations. Through the Green Dragons' Den, iTapToo came into contact with the procurement department from TU Delft and caterer Appèl. In 2023, iTapToo and Appèl worked together, as a result that the iTapToo vending machines are on campus.
iTapToo
During the graduation project in 2019 where Daan Beuting and Esmee Noij had to set up a fictitious company, iTapToo was conceived. 'Why do we still need to buy separate plastic bottles for a taste full drink when we all carry a reusable bottle with us?", they asked themselves. Now iTapToo exists and they want to make the future vital and plastic-free with its drinks vending machines.