waste coffee grounds Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 23 Oct 2015 19:33:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Recycled Coffee Grounds in American Eagle’s Latest Jeans https://www.greenoptimistic.com/american-eagle-coffee-jeans/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/american-eagle-coffee-jeans/#respond Fri, 23 Oct 2015 19:33:56 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=57063 American Eagle, one of the world’s biggest jeans manufacturers, has put a new twist in their latest line- the fabric that they use contains recycled coffee grounds. Used coffee grounds are finding more and more applications in our daily activities. First they were found to be a brilliant alternative to crops in the making of […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/american-eagle-coffee-jeans/feed/ 0 57063 Coffee Grounds Can be Used to Capture Carbon https://www.greenoptimistic.com/coffee-grounds-carbon-capture/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/coffee-grounds-carbon-capture/#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2015 17:56:26 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=56565 Scientists in South Korea have found a way to turn coffee grounds from waste into a cheap and effective material that captures carbon. Coffee grounds have found quite a number of applications over the years- from being used in cosmetics instead of microplastics, through unblocking drains and replacing chemical fertilizer, all the way to being […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/coffee-grounds-carbon-capture/feed/ 1 56565 Waste Coffee Grounds Can Be Used to Make Biodiesel and Electricity https://www.greenoptimistic.com/waste-coffee-grounds-can-used-make-biodiesel-purify-produce-electricity-20130910/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/waste-coffee-grounds-can-used-make-biodiesel-purify-produce-electricity-20130910/#respond Tue, 10 Sep 2013 07:29:31 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=41479 The American Chemical Society (ACS) 246th National Meeting and Exposition, held between 8th and 12th of September in Indianapolis, yet again impresses the audience with numerous exciting talks and innovative research. Among the presenters was a team from University of Cincinnati, who showed their preliminary findings from an experiment they conducted on the use of […]

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