A company in Belgium is turning tons of used coffee grounds into mushrooms

A Belgian company is finding a way to give coffee grounds a second life — using them to grow mushrooms.

Rather than letting coffee grounds wind up in landfills, the PermaFungi team heads out by bike to pick up as much as 100 kilograms of grounds from local coffee shops in Brussels. "A mushroom can break down coffee grounds. It doesn't see coffee, it doesn't see coffee grounds — it sees nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, carbon. And it's going to use that base to get only what it needs," Julian Jacquet, cofounder of PermaFungi, told Business Insider Today.

Every year, coffee drinkers across the world generate about 6 million tons of used grounds. In 2018, the company recycled 39 of those tons.

대한민국 최근 뉴스, 대한민국 헤드 라인

Similar News:다른 뉴스 소스에서 수집한 이와 유사한 뉴스 기사를 읽을 수도 있습니다.

US federal contract ban takes effect for companies using products from Huawei, othersNew regulations took effect on Thursday barring the U.S. government from buying goods or services from any company that uses products from five ...
출처: ChannelNewsAsia - 🏆 6. / 66 더 많은 것을 읽으십시오 »