This repository is intended to be an open science kit for any biomaterial explorers who wish to create objects with coffee waste as a biomaterial.
We’re still at early stage, we welcome you to join us on our experiments, DIY your own, have fun, and be curious!
Below you’ll find documentation, sources for interesting links and research files all related to making “One Cup of Coffee” ☕️
Disposable paper coffee cups with plastic or PLA bioplastic make it impossible to recycle, or under very specific circumstances that are non-abundant.
Around 2.25 billion cups of coffee are consumed worldwide every day. This adds up to over 800 billion cups of coffee per year, resulting in millions of tons of used coffee grounds being discarded in landfills.
Companies like Kaffeeform In Berlin Is Turning Coffee Grounds Into Reusable Cups, but the manufacturing process is very expensive and highly specialized.
We want to make the coffee-waste material product manufacturing process more “frugal”, so any ordinary citizen from around the world can participate. If one can make “a cup of coffee” from “a cup from coffee” - there are unlimited imaginations of goods that can be produced.
We made an extensive analysis on the source of the problem and stated our insights on how to solve them here:
We have open-sourced all our methods and results, so you can reference and DIY your own version.
In this repository, you will find references to academic research papers, different recipes that we have tried, different methods we explored in forming a cup, and the test and validation methodologies.
These are all the fundamental research we referenced for finding alternative bindings, existing products and methods etc.