A product being made by the North East’s reigning company of the year could help provide the solution to the growing problem of disposable coffee cups. Omega Plastics - which has sites at Blyth , Washington and Hartlepool - is working with inventor Andrew Brooks on the pokito collapsible cup, which allows owners to adjust their cup to the size of their drink and collapse it for easy storage and portability. Mr Brooks raised more than £100,000 through crowdfunding to bring his concept to production and has since been working with Omega, which last year won the top prize at the North East Business Awards. He said: “It’s astonishing to think that if you stacked all of the paper cups that are thrown away each day on top of each other, they would be seven times taller than Mount Everest. Pokito will cost you £15 and is available in a range of colours.
