{"id":103727,"date":"2022-02-01T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T06:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=103727"},"modified":"2022-01-24T15:50:33","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T14:50:33","slug":"rens-creates-sneakers-from-coffee-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/rens-creates-sneakers-from-coffee-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"Rens Creates Sneakers From Coffee Waste"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Rens, the Helsinki-based footwear firm, has created a waterproof trainer made from coffee waste and recycled plastic bottles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s an attempt to lessen the environmental impact of used coffee grounds, which in Finland can be as much as 14,380,600 tonnes every year. That is 13% of the country\u2019s annual food refuse, with only fruits and vegetables being thrown in the bin, and coffee being poured down the drain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWhen we started, we actually realised that only five per cent of the coffee waste in the world actually gets recycled,\u201d says Rens co-founder and CEO, Jesse Tran. \u201cCoffee waste is a bio waste, but it produces a lot of methane, which is like 32 times more potent than CO2. So what we do here is just extend the life cycle.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Global demand for coffee is expected to double by 2050, but coffee cultivation is becoming more and more challenging, due to rising temperatures affecting plantations around the world. Therefore, it\u2019s important to find ways to recycle, renew and reuse its byproducts. This could reduce the build up of methane gases and coffee\u2019s contribution to climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A pair of Rens\u2019 first-generation \u2018Original\u2019 shoes contain 300 grams of coffee waste, the equivalent to 21 cups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cAfter you drink the coffee and throw the coffee grounds away, we actually mix it with recycled plastic pellets made from used water bottles,\u201d explains Tran. \u201cWe then create something called coffee polyester yarn. The majority of the upper part of our shoes is made from this material.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company launched a KickStarter campaign in 2017, raising over \u20ac486,000 in just 24 hours. A follow-up campaign in August 2021 raised an additional \u20ac300,000, and was used to produce Nomad, a second-generation version of the sneaker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn the market, sustainable products are really popular. What we see as a problem is that those products are not made for young people,\u201d says co-founder and CTO Son Chu. \u201cThe way that they are selling the products is like: \u2018Hey, use us or else the planet is going to die.\u2019 We don\u2019t like that approach. We want to be a brand where we make sustainable products, but they are cool, they have really cool functions, people can actually use them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rens claims to offset all emissions from the production, packaging and distribution of its products, in an effort to create a truly climate neutral product.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Currently, the price for a pair of the company\u2019s latest footwear is \u20ac96. However, the success has prompted the company to explore new applications for its sustainable technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhatever product we make, we will apply the same formula, which is from waste-based material,\u201d says Tran. \u201cIt can be coffee waste again, or it can be something else.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rens, the Helsinki-based footwear firm, has created a waterproof trainer made from coffee waste and recycled plastic bottles. It\u2019s an attempt to lessen the environmental impact of used coffee grounds, which in Finland can be as much as 14,380,600 tonnes every year. That is 13% of the country\u2019s annual food refuse, with only fruits and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","nova_meta_subtitle":"Global demand for coffee is expected to double by 2050, but coffee cultivation is becoming more and more challenging, due to the the build up of methane gases and coffee\u2019s contribution to climate change","footnotes":""},"categories":[17143],"tags":[5842,10416,11966,10453],"supplier":[19740],"class_list":["post-103727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recycling","tag-biomass","tag-circulareconomy","tag-plastics","tag-recycling","supplier-rens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103727"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=103727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}