From Coffee Grounds to Raw Material

In Hong Kong, Eco-Greenergy has launched the "Zero Grounds Coffee Campaign", which collecting and upcycling them into a series of "Coffee NEXT" products, including soap, flowerpots, recycled tableware and etc. Some of the recycled coffee grounds will be fermented into compost to reduce waste. It turns waste to be resources.

From Coffee Grounds to Construction Material

The local construction company in Colombia using the waste coffee husks and other waste from the coffee production process, turning into prefabricated blocks used for construction. The blocks do not use any specialized training or tools that build the affordable and eco-friendly housing for the communities, which reduce the construction cost and much sustainable.

From Coffee Grounds to Concrete

The researcher offers a new solution to reduce the use of the resources because of after water, sand is the most extracted mineral and limited resources in the world. It is used to produce concrete, glass, and many other essential construction materials that causing the world’s sand supplies to be diminishing. Therefore, the researcher using the coffee grounds to replace a natural resource in concrete, sand. The team found they could replace up to 10% of the sand with coffee grounds while safely preserving the concrete’s integrity, which solves the environmental impacts and towards sustainability.