Growing mushrooms on coffee grounds for food. Tutorial 1 The coffee waste problem

in #coffee7 years ago (edited)

Did you know that it takes an enormous amount of energy to make coffee?Coffee-Berry-Beans-Le-Creuset.jpg
From growing the tree, producing the berries, picking the beans, transporting the beans, roasting the coffeebeans,
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grinding the coffeebeans and making a cup of coffee?
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Did you know that only in the US 587,000,000 (587 million) cups of coffee are being consumed daily?
And the most of the coffeegrounds ends up as waste.
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Did you know that less than 1 percent of the coffees biomass ends up in your coffeecup?
And the rest is waste.
But this waste is an opportunity.
Growing mushrooms on coffee waste makes it very satisfiying to collect coffee at your local café or restaurants..
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And that's the start..