{"id":27923,"date":"2015-05-26T11:14:09","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T09:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=27923"},"modified":"2015-08-25T11:26:14","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T09:26:14","slug":"julian-lechner-turns-old-coffee-grounds-into-reusable-cups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/julian-lechner-turns-old-coffee-grounds-into-reusable-cups\/","title":{"rendered":"Julian Lechner turns old coffee grounds into reusable cups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On show for the first time at the Amsterdam Coffee Festival this week, the Kaffeeform coffee cups are made from the material of the same name.<\/p>\n<p>Lechner collects leftover coffee grounds from his local cafes in Berlin. He combines these with natural glues and particles of wood from sustainable sources to produce a liquid that can be injection moulded to create usable objects.<\/p>\n<p>Once set into the required shape, the material is hard and waterproof enough to withstand cleaning in a dishwasher, according to the designer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The amount of daily coffee consumption worldwide is growing, thus the potential of reusing its waste for further uses is enormous,&#8221; said Lechner.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kaffeeform is a sustainable material that aims to take advantage of these readily available waste materials to become an alternative to petrochemical-based structural plastics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He first developed the idea in 2009 while working in Italy, where he studied design at the Free University of Bozen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On show for the first time at the Amsterdam Coffee Festival this week, the Kaffeeform coffee cups are made from the material of the same name. Lechner collects leftover coffee grounds from his local cafes in Berlin. He combines these with natural glues and particles of wood from sustainable sources to produce a liquid that [&#8230;]<\/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":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[10453],"supplier":[10490,10491],"class_list":["post-27923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-recycling","supplier-kaffeeform","supplier-university-of-bozen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27923","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=27923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27923"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=27923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}