Finnish company recycles coffee waste into sneakers

How do you like your coffee? Black? With milk? Or perhaps on your feet? A Finnish footwear firm has raised over $US800,000 to produce shoes partly made from used coffee grounds.The shoes are made in Vietnam, one of the world's largest coffee producersHelsinki-based footwear firm Rens says it has created a waterproof sneaker made from coffee waste and recycled plastic bottles.

Rens says a pair of its first-generation "Original" shoes contains about 300 grams of coffee waste, the equivalent of 21 cups of java.The waste is processed and then combined with plastic pellets from recycled bottles to make a polyester yarn for the upper part of the sneaker.Rens says its coffee waste is sourced from major convenience chains in Asia.

"The way that they are selling the products is, like: 'Hey, use us or else the planet is going to die.' We don't like that approach. Rens says it will offset all climate emissions from production, packaging, distribution and shipping to make its new "Nomad" coffee sneakers carbon-neutral.

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