• Tag Archives: Coffee

    Starbucks to use biorefineries to recycle waste food and coffee grinds into detergent and plastic!

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    Starbucks has just come up with an innovative way to put to use all the stale food and coffee grinds it generates on a daily basis in Hong Kong, recycling it all into laundry detergent! Using a biorefinery that essentially … Continue reading3

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    Carpuccino, the car that runs on ground coffee

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    Bored of drinking coffee? Well, you can give your cup of coffee to this car and it’ll drink it up! It may sound extraordinary, but this car does run on coffee. It costs around 25 to 50 times more to … Continue reading3

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    Coffee grounds recycled in to eco-fabric – Sip it and wear it too!

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    And you just sip on to your cup of hot coffee in ignorance! Has it ever dawned upon you that what happens to the waste coffee grounds? A Taiwanese company, Singtex Industrial, has pioneered the technology to weave out a … Continue reading3

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    Eco-friendly RITI Printer prints with coffee and tea – Green Gadgets Design Competition

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    For all those folks who are constantly hitting the ctrl P to keep printing their work docs via ink-based printers, here is a green alternative. Though still a concept, Korean designer Joen Hwan Ju’s RITI Printer is designed to feed … Continue reading3

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