A cardboard entrepreneur could be boxing clever over coronavirus after finding amenities not cut out to deal with forced interactions or tissue disposal.
Murray Sellars was staggered by the lack of public facilities when needed in London last week, and raced back to his Grimsby business with a plan.
Now, having worked with a janitorial contact, SneezeStation is on the market - with pubs, clubs, workplaces and public spaces targeted.
It brings a hygienically-conscious design of bin together with vital tissue and gel dispensing.
The packaging specialist is behind Quickbox.co, which traditionally focuses on helping e-commerce companies with consignment presentation.
He said: “I had to go to London, and you always worry a little at times like this. There just seemed a lack of an ability to sanitise anywhere before an interaction, be it before buying a Costa or a KFC, or meeting someone, there is absolutely nothing.
“I saw a need for something quick and easy and I spoke to a janitorial client that I have, and we came up with this idea. There is more to it than a box. Even if you secure a used tissue in a bag, when you squeeze the air out everything will go all over the place. This is a rigid container that would get sealed and disposed of.
“Made out of cardboard, we have brought the price down as low as we can, with alco-gel and three packs of tissues it comes in under £30, and I’ve seen sites where sanitiser alone is costing that.
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“We want to get it out there as quickly as possible to help the delay phase before coronavirus really takes hold.
“If you are office-based you can work from home, but production and manufacturing is going to he hit if people don’t pay attention to what the government is suggesting as far as sanitising and self-isolating.”
An email marketing campaign has been immediately launched by the South Humberside industrial Estate-based business, which spun out of Lindum Packaging, a Stallingborough-based family company he sold his stake in to take the manufacturing arm on.