Australians drink billions of cups of coffee a year, with the vast majority of used grounds ending up in landfill. Now Australian researchers have found a way to re-use that waste to make concrete - and it's not just coffee being repurposed.
Australians drink billions of cups of coffee a year, with the vast majority of used grounds ending up in landfill. Now Australian researchers have found a way to re-use that waste to make concrete - and it's not just coffee being repurposed.The cylinders look like ordinary concrete, but they're far from it.
"High-vis vests don't last for long, it just only lasts around 25 washes. So that means we tend to find these high-vis vests quite a lot going to landfills. So we wanted to find an effective solution to be used, probably as a cement replacement material in concrete." "So if you take as a whole, the car production industry across the world is similar to the cement production. So it's a huge amount of carbon emissions that is generated, which is almost 8% of the total global carbon production."
And its not the only new sustainable concrete project - researchers at RMIT are working with spent coffee grounds, pouring it into a busy footpath in Australia's coffee capital, Melbourne.
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