Bio-Bean

70 million cups of coffee is consumed per day just in the U.K. and the coffee grounds from each of those cups end up in landfills. Bio-bean is a company that is decreasing coffee's carbon footprint by turning coffee grounds into biofuel pellets. 25 year old founder and CEO Arthur Kay explained that "each year in the U.K. there's about 500,000 tons of wasted coffee grounds."

Bio-bean collects coffee grounds from over a thousand different coffee shops, restaurants, offices, train stations and shopping centers from over 300 locations across the U.K. Bio-bean's factory processes about 1 in 10 cups of coffee that is produced in the U.K., which is bout 7 million cups a day.

"Bio-bean mainly converts coffee into biomass pellets and briquettes which can be used for anything from warming pizza ovens to heating entire buildings." Bio-bean's factory can process 50,000 tons of coffee waste per year. "Most of the pellets are sold back to the coffee shops where they came from, creating a circular economy which is more sustainable than when products are made, used and disposed of."

Coffee logs, which are intended to replace traditional wood fires in homes will be available soon. Bio-bean is also looking into biodiesel and the team is "investigating how coffee waste could power cars, buses and even their own bio-bean collection truck." Bio-bean has 25 employees and recently won a Virgin Media business award.

According to Kay, "for every ton of coffee grounds, you would release a couple of tons of Methane and CO2." He added that "two and half years ago, this was a sketch on the back of a napkin and today it's a ground-out reality which could power the future."

CNN Article Caffeine Fix: Wake Up To Recycled Coffee: http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/08/world/coffee-recycling-bio-bean/index.html

Bio-bean: http://www.bio-bean.com/

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