What if I go out without water? It is believed that the answer for almost everyone will be: ' Buy a bottle and get it '.
The advent of bottled water has really greatly facilitated people's lives, but the large number of plastic bottles currently on the market has also had a negative impact on the environment.
Recently, a foreign startup has come up with an ambitious plan to get people to fill their own cups of water anytime, anywhere, and then give up buying bottled water.
' Shared drinking water ' App
Recently, a company called Tap has developed an app designed to allow people to find clean drinking water sources, including restaurants, convenience stores, public fountains, and so on, so people can replenish their cups at any time and no longer have to buy bottled water.
At present, this app can provide 30 countries and regions, 7100 cities of 34,000 ' recharge Station '.
See here, you may have the same question as Xiao Knitting: what is the meaning of this app? Now, no matter what young people at home and abroad do not want to carry the water cup with them all the time, is this app for the favorite Water Cup of the ' Chinese Dame ' developed?
In response, Tap's founder, Samuel Rosen, Samuelrosen a different view, saying that water itself should be a public resource, while bottled water companies ' Rob ' the resource from consumers and then sell it to consumers in turn.
Tap hopes to find a convenient and inexpensive way to drink water, thereby changing the habit of consumers buying bottled water.
Businesses that work with TAP will put a blue tap sign on the door and indicate what kind of drinks they can offer, such as pure water, soda, seasoned drinks and whether it's free.
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Tap said the app was developed for more reasons than environmental concerns. Earlier this month, the UN Intergovernmental Panel released a climate change report that was like a bombshell, warning that if there was no change in global warming to 2030 years, it would have a disastrous impact.
The impact could lead to extreme droughts, forest fires, significantly increased frequency of flooding and a global food shortage that could affect hundreds of millions of of people, the report said. Plastic waste is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions.
According to the World Economic Forum, 8 million tonnes of plastic enter the water each year, and if our current use of plastics continues to increase, it is expected that the total weight of plastic in the ocean will exceed the total weight of marine life by 2050. But, as the saying goes, ' no profit is not early ', tap development of the app is another purpose of making money, and the company also plans to provide back-end support services for some cold-drink machine companies.
Usually cold drink machine company to sell products will provide replacement parts such as after-sales service, and tap to provide these companies with some software tools, so that when the customer's cold drink machine failure, the manufacturer can do the first time to understand the type of failure and send maintenance personnel.
If tap starts this business, there may be many users who are drawn to cold drinks stores through their ' Find water ' app, increasing the frequency of cold drink machines and increasing the frequency with which machines need to be repaired.
Whatever the future of the product, Rosen seems confident that he sees an opportunity to generate revenue in a Google-like way, providing advertising revenue for the company, and that he is adamant that the world of the future is a world without plastic bottles.
The founders used to specialize in ' shared warehouses '
After reading the above content, do you also think this is called Rosen's human brain hole is very big?
According to CNN, he was traveling in Europe when he was forced to spend 5 of dollars each time to buy water because he didn't bring a water cup, so he came up with such an idea.
In fact, he has previously run a company called MakeSpace, specializing in ' sharing small warehouses '.
MakeSpace is a startup that provides storage warehouse leasing, and it is able to temporarily hold items in a small warehouse for a variety of reasons and rent them on a monthly basis. After the user makes an online appointment, the MakeSpace will provide the customer with the appropriate storage box according to the reservation information (such as the size of the item, material, volume, etc.), and when the user has packed the items to be stored, MakeSpace will pick up the storage box and take a good aerial view to create a picture file for all the goods in the repository.
When the customer wants to retrieve the goods, MakeSpace will be returned to the door within 48 hours. Currently, MakeSpace mainly covers major markets such as New York, Los Angeles, Washington and Chicago.
In terms of price, New York, for example, has a monthly rent of $59. According to 36 Krypton news, this kind of main ' optimized space ' self-storage warehouse from the 60 's the United States began to develop, at present, there are more than 40,000 self-storage stores in the United States, large and small, the annual output value of more than 30 billion U.S. dollars. Compared with the traditional warehouse, the self-storage warehouse has a higher standard of industry, such as constant temperature and humidity, 24-hour camera monitoring, personal care, free insurance and so on.
The self-storage positions in the United States are usually located in convenient areas within a 3-5-mile radius of the target customer base, with an area of 3-30 square meters per storage unit. It is reported that nearly 10% of Americans have a self-storage position, the United States has nearly 50,000 storage centers.
It is the fastest-growing area in the commercial real estate industry over the past 40 years, according to the Self Storage Association. In the domestic one or two-tier cities, with the growing popularity of small homes, in recent years there have also been such personal warehousing and leasing services, such as ' Mini Koala Warehouse ' and ' store-friendly ', are reference to foreign self-service warehousing industry model, but compared with the United States market,
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