Coffee husks—the papery natural material around coffee beans that comes off when the beans are roasted—normally become waste, dumped in piles that release methane, a potent greenhouse gas. But a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Your morning cup of Joe might help you get out of bed. But it could also give you four walls to put your bed in. A company in ...

Who says sustainable can’t be sexy? Certainly not HuskeeTech, the makers of the HuskeeCup, a durable, reusable ceramic cup made from a coffee husk. After all, what better way to drink your morning cup ...

Coffee bean husks could be used to extract hexavalent chromium from industrial wastewater, offering an inexpensive remediation technology for the developing world. The metal chromium is an essential ...

You've heard the stats: Australians throw away 50,000 takeaway coffee cups every half hour, 2.7 million a day, 1 billion every year. The numbers have been hard to ignore, ever since the ABC's War on ...

HuskeeCup isn’t your typical cup for joe. Reusable, recyclable, and chip-resistant, the ceramic alternative is made entirely from discarded coffee husk, a byproduct of the milling stage of java ...

According to the company, over 1.35 million tonnes (1.48 million tons) of coffee bean husk waste is generated globally on an annual basis. Although those husks have been used as fertilizer, they are ...

Starch films are biodegradable materials that have attracted enormous interest for use as sustainable alternatives to conventional plastics in food packaging in recent years. However, despite their ...

Jerry Baldwin, a co-founder of Starbucks and one-time chairman of Peet’s Coffee & Tea, recently visited Ethiopia, where he drank qishr, which is made from the husks of coffee cherries (which yield ...

Vietnam shipped 500 kg of coffee husk, valued at nearly 1 million VND (40 USD) per kg, to the Republic of Korea. The DakLak September 2nd Import-Export Company Limited (Simexco Daklak) on February 24 ...

The coffee industry can be a real dark horse. Each year the production of coffee generates millions of tonnes of waste, and Huskee wanted to turn that waste into something beautiful. The Sydney-based ...