One flat white to go with no sugar! A creepy sea creature shaped like a disposable coffee cup is part of designer Porky Hefer’s art installation, Plastocene – Marine Mutants from a Disposable World. It’s on display at the National Gallery of Victoria, as one of the works commissioned for the Melbourne-based gallery’s Triennial exhibition. … Continue reading
We need more good news going around, so your trusted coffee grounds website editor is here to deliver. A commercial organics waste processing facility in Minnesota is doing fine work within the circular economy. The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community Organics Recycling Facility can’t keep up with the demand to processes organic waste from city curbside … Continue reading
A great long reads article came out recently in the Guardian about the uncertain future for Nespresso’s aluminium coffee pods. Get yourself a coffee and 20 minutes to get through a very interesting read. I’ve written over the years that pods are generally wasteful, regardless of how they are manufactured. Efforts at getting the coffee … Continue reading
Do we have a winner yet. Surely someone has managed to make money out of this by now? Fingers crossed, that some smart ambitious young thing cracks the code. I don’t know how this one went – Zero Impact – wishing you all the best in your mission to repurpose all the used coffee grounds … Continue reading
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