Oct 1 2010
Every year, coffee is produced to the extent of 16 billion pounds. When it comes to the question of the elements used for brewing coffee, such as the potential of the coffee bean, a sizeable portion of the used coffee grounds go on to end up in the landfills, which are never considered for other alternative uses, such as a potential fertilizer for gardens.
A statement made by the (ACS) American Chemical Society could change this situation. The Journal for Agricultural and Food Chemistry has reported that coffee grounds could become an economically-attractive resource for harnessing biofuel. Currently, less than 2% of the world’s fuel consumption that is used for vehicular purposes gets derived from biofuel.
As opposed to the raw plant materials as a possible resource for producing biofuels, coffee grounds could prove to be less expensive. Waste coffee grounds hold tremendous potential for considerably increasing the reliance on biofuels.
Source: http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content