Your coffee grounds can be innovatively recycled - here's how

Coffee grounds have become an alternative to various cleaning products in the home.
Image: REUTERS/YT Haryono
John McKenna
Every day more than 2 billion cups of coffee are consumed across the globe. Most of the coffee grounds used to make those cups are thrown away, with six million tonnes sent to landfill every year.
This is bad for the environment: decomposing coffee grounds release methane into the atmosphere; methane is the second-most abundant greenhouse gas and has a global warming potential up to 86 times greater than CO2.

Coffee grounds have become an alternative to various cleaning products in the home.
Image: REUTERS/YT Haryono
John McKenna
Every day more than 2 billion cups of coffee are consumed across the globe. Most of the coffee grounds used to make those cups are thrown away, with six million tonnes sent to landfill every year.
This is bad for the environment: decomposing coffee grounds release methane into the atmosphere; methane is the second-most abundant greenhouse gas and has a global warming potential up to 86 times greater than CO2.








