Pom Reuse Wonderful
July 19th, 2007
POM Wonderful, the pomegranate drink company, has come out with a new delicious line of products: POM Tea. In addition to being really yummy, it comes in a beautiful, slender glass, a deviation from their original eye-catching but awkwardly bulbous pomegranate glass design (on left).
An elegant alternative to drinking from clunkier mason jars (think “glass tomato sauce containers”), the Pom Reuse’s is more simliar to traditional glass design and will stick out less next to the other glasses in the cupboard. While the price is a bit steep, often as high as $3.50 a glass, I like to think I’m buying a set of nice glasses that just happens to come with a “prize” inside.
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July 19th, 2007 at 10:27 am
I’m guilty. Just yesterday, I dropped $2.50 on a POM tea… It was expensive but delicious. The deal got even sweeter when I was able to rinse it off and put it back into my cupboard.
Also, I recently discovered POM jars for sale at Goodwill (a thrift store) for $0.99, which would imply that the general public thinks they’re at least somewhat aesthetically pleasing and that they’re better than the other china and glassware priced less than the POM glass!
That said, it’s obviously less resource and energy intensive to drink self-made tea from tap water because transporting water via existing pipe infrastructure is more efficient than transporting the mass that makes up packaging and liquid, which is quite dense (~8.3 lbs/gal, 1kg/ L). In addition to transportation energy/CO2, there’s the packaging. In this case, the packaging isn’t significantly heavier than a traditional glass bottle. The steel cap is reusable,and fortunately, that too can be recycled. However, I’ve found that the plastic-coated paper seal in the lid degrades over time. Admittedly the packaging also has a shrink wrap label (likely polystyrene) that is not readily recyclable. While this isn’t great, it too has some environmental benefits.
By printing only their logo on the glasses, POM can keep manufacturing costs lower, minimize their risk and simplify the management of their packaging inventory (if their product line changes, they aren’t left with a million glasses printed with a discontinued drink label).
I think the glasses also benefit from a graphic design standpoint by not being cluttered with nutrition facts and other label contents when the packaging is being reused as a drinking glass.
Ultimately, I think it’s leaps and bounds better than the run of the mill iced-tea bottle. Drink up!
July 20th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
saw these yesterday and thought they were brilliant. Love the minimalist design.
September 12th, 2007 at 11:37 am
I’m loving the post and comments about the POM tea. Visist the POM Wonderful blog and make sure to post your opinions there as well!!!
January 22nd, 2009 at 5:40 am
i am looking to buy some pom glasses…if anyone has some extra let me know! nineluckystarsgmail.com
Cheers!
March 11th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
Please let me know if anyone is selling the POM glasses, I would love at least one!!! If not more!
Thank you!!
May 3rd, 2009 at 5:00 pm
I have 8 of these jars and my son just broke one, I know this sounds really lame but I was so sad about this. These are no longer available in stores to buy, not in the glass jar anymore at least:(