Don't throw away your coffee grounds

Estimates during the day alone in the United Kingdom there are 70 million cups of coffee are drink down, the coffee industry is a vibrant market. But in order to make a cup of coffee, there is a lot of coffee grounds to be discarded. The coffee grounds, for people who drink coffee are junk, but others may be gold. Starting from 2014, Bio-Bean the United Kingdom company began making a thousands of tons of coffee grounds into biofuels.

According to the company's CEO, is only 25 years old, the young Arthur Kay said United Kingdom produces 500,000 tons of coffee grounds each year. Their company is in London every day, large and small coffee shops, restaurants, companies, train station, shopping mall collects various left over after making the coffee grounds. Not only in London, there are more than 300 cafes daily coffee grounds left over from their companies. They could probably deal with the British one-tenth amount of coffee in a day.

Bio-Bean company can recycle coffee grounds into briquettes, can be used in the oven or their chimneys, or even for an entire generation in villages and towns. Now most coffee briquettes will be sold back to the coffee shop and reused again in order to reduce costs. The near future, the company will be making coffee wood, hoping to replace the traditional wood for home use.

Bio-fuel is currently emerging industries, study on the concerted efforts of the company's team hopes to use coffee grounds as car fuel of trucks, buses and even his own company. Coffee granules as a house or car fuels, main purpose is don't want leftover coffee grounds to be tossed in the trash, or sent to incinerators, producing more carbon dioxide.

For a ton of coffee grounds, have to release more tons of carbon dioxide, the company's founders said. So he came up with the idea of second-hand coffee of a manufacturer. He said: there are days he watched overnight did not drink the coffee, there is a layer of oil floating on top, he thinks there should be some things can be recycled again. Results indeed, at present, the company already employs more than 25 people, also won the award for Virgin Media (Virgin Media Business Award), specialized research and development in this interesting experiment. 2.5 years ago, and the idea is just a doodle on a napkin, but now it has come true, are likely to influence the future.

In fact, not only coffee can be recycled before Germany a company developed with coffee grounds and then made into durable coffee mugs. In addition to professional firms develop more interesting products, coffee grounds use in daily life, nothing less. In addition to insecticide, deodorant, as plant fertilizers, but also can do for skin exfoliation, aroma candles. So the next time myself coffee, instead of simply discarded, consider the case of coffee grounds use it!