Ford is making car parts—with waste from McDonald's coffee beans

Ford is teaming up with McDonald's to use its coffee chaff in auto parts.

Each headlight housing uses chaffs from about 300,000 beans. They are also more durable because the chaff composite can withstand heat better, according to Debbie Mielewski, senior technical leader of Ford's sustainability and emerging materials research team.

McDonald's plans to divert a "significant portion" of its North American coffee chaff to Ford. In 2018, the fast-food giant served about 822 million cups of hot McCafe coffee in the United States alone. Both companies plan to continue exploring new ways to work together on sustainability efforts — including using more of McDonald's scraps.

"They must have a lot of ketchup discards — tomato skins and peels and seeds," Mielewski said in an interview. "What about their French fry potato peels? We're convinced we can probably do some chemistry and make something out of those as well."

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