Coffee grounds are an unavoidable byproduct of coffee consumption which have a significant impact on the environment after ending in landfill. How can coffee grounds be reused further contributing towards a circular economy?
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A company of Singtex industries discovers the way to use the coffee ground into wearable textile-like yarn which can further be converted into fabric. Coffee is one of the world’s most popular drinks, as a result of this most of the coffee ground is discarded into the environment as waste but Singtex is now collecting the waste grounds from the drinks giant turns into sportswear.
Singtex successfully invented the S.Cafe eco-friendly coffee yarn in 2008, which was made from plastic bottles and coffee grounds. This green, high-tech yarn is environmentally friendly, deodorising, and fast-drying, UV-resistant and has many different applications.
S.cafe is technical composite fibre mainly manufactured from coffee grounds. Process of making fabric out of coffee grounds is just similar to that used to bamboo into viscose like material.
The manufacturing process of coffee fibre involves the use of chemicals which are non-toxic in nature, hence they do not create harm to the environment.
The manufacturing of a new product does not require high temperature for carbonization, so its manufacturing process is more efficient. More important point is that the process does not use hazardous chemicals as well.
S.cafe fibre comes under the environmentally friendly textile as the fibres are 100 percent biodegradable and do not create an impact on the environment as well.