Re-discovery of 99.8% of Discarded Coffee Grounds
It is 99.8 percent to 0.2 percent. It is not the ratio of working-class people to rich people. It's not even a chance to win a school prize. The former is used for coffee extractions from coffee beans and then thrown away, and the latter is the amount purely used for coffee extractions. Of the coffee beans, 99.8 percent are released as waste, with only 0.2 percent being used for coffee. Specifically, about 14 grams of coffee beans are needed to make a cup of Americano, but only 0.2 percent of coffee beans are used to extract coffee. The remaining 99.8 percent will be coffee grounds.
Like the heyday of coffee, South Korea's coffee market surpassed 10 trillion won for the first time last year. In other words, the entire nation drank 26.5 billion cups of coffee a year (the population of Korea is 50 million). However, all the coffee scraps that occurred after the coffee was made were put in the standard plastic garbage bag. This is because coffee grounds have been classified as general household waste. Last year alone, 130,000 tons of coffee scraps were dumped like that. As a result, coffee waste has been stigmatized as the main culprit of environmental pollution.
But such coffee grounds have changed. It has transformed into the name of 'green.' The term "rediscovery of coffee scraps" is emerging.
For now, the government took the lead. In May, the Ministry of Environment revised the Enforcement Rules of the Waste Management Act to allow the collection, transportation, and recycling of coffee scraps that were previously sold or incinerated. It opened the way for the recycling of coffee waste, which had been dumped as household waste before, and induced the industry to use the coffee waste eco-friendly. In response, the coffee industry is also moving to actively participate in the re-transformation of coffee grounds. In particular, coffee scraps are gaining new vitality as more and more people are saying that the recycling rate of coffee scraps should be increased, especially at major coffee shops.
Industry sources seem to agree on the direction of recycling coffee waste productively. However, there are many places that hesitate due to the heavy burden of logistics, storage, and fertilizer costs for collecting huge amounts of coffee scraps.
In fact, Starbucks' recycling rate of coffee scraps has increased every year, reaching 97 percent of the country's store emissions this year. It is the equivalent of 5,335 tons out of the total 5,500 tons. Collected coffee scraps were reborn as eco-friendly compost and provided free of charge to farmers in Gyeonggi Province and other regions across the country. Starbucks' recycling rate of coffee waste increased by more than 10 percentage points every year to 77 percent in 2016 and 89 percent in 2017.
Coffee scraps are also being transformed into store interiors. The Gwanghwamun Station branch of Starbucks, which opened in Jongno-gu, Seoul in 2015, showcased coffee boards, light caps, tables, and interior finishes made using coffee scraps for the first time in the world. It was evaluated that it presented a new model for recycling coffee waste. At Starbucks in front of my house, a large desk made of coffee scraps was placed in the middle of the store. The interesting thing is that when I licked it, it didn't taste like coffee. (Of course, I wiped it with an antibacterial tissue before lick and after licked it, I wiped it again with an antibacterial wet tissue.)
An industry official said, "I think recycling coffee waste is a way to go, although it costs more," and added, "We are constantly thinking about various ways to recycle it and are positively considering it."
In Korea, almost all cafes put coffee grounds in paper bags so that others can just take them for free. I once asked how much it is because it seems to be sold in a pretty line in front of the cafe (it's not that beautiful. It's just sealed with a cafe sticker.) If you search the Internet or YouTube, it tells you how to use coffee chips in your daily life, such as making soap with coffee scraps, scrubbing, massage, air fresheners, and candles. I wanted to make fun of my friend, so I poured hot water back into the scraps and tried to trick and feed them. But I think I drank more than half of it while trying to persuade my friend to drink. It tasted better than I thought. LOL
The reason I'm writing this today is that many people around the world feel a lot of frustration and boredom as they self-price themselves at home. And in Korea, people enjoy simple labor such as making dalgona coffee 1,000 times by stirring coffee at home, grinding coffee beans by hand, making eggs 1,000 times like meringue, and then baking omelet. Of course, I couldn't understand it at first, but I was enjoying it as I did it. (If you are very bored, try making it.) If you type Dalgona Coffee on YouTube, you will see a lot of Korean videos. So in the end, I want to say: I want the self-purchasing people, the people who are working hard to prevent the disease in the field, and everyone who reads my article, to have fun with the leftover coffee scraps while taking the right amount of caffeine in good healthily.
It's not appropriate for this article, but those who suffer from the coronavirus, those who work hard to protect people, those who live alone at home, and those who find it hard to get a mask or food ingredient, all of you have done a lot. I'll pray that we can get over this disastrous coronavirus quickly Many economies around the world have stopped because of this incident. Let's all work together to overcome this disaster!!
Like the heyday of coffee, South Korea's coffee market surpassed 10 trillion won for the first time last year. In other words, the entire nation drank 26.5 billion cups of coffee a year (the population of Korea is 50 million). However, all the coffee scraps that occurred after the coffee was made were put in the standard plastic garbage bag. This is because coffee grounds have been classified as general household waste. Last year alone, 130,000 tons of coffee scraps were dumped like that. As a result, coffee waste has been stigmatized as the main culprit of environmental pollution.
But such coffee grounds have changed. It has transformed into the name of 'green.' The term "rediscovery of coffee scraps" is emerging.
For now, the government took the lead. In May, the Ministry of Environment revised the Enforcement Rules of the Waste Management Act to allow the collection, transportation, and recycling of coffee scraps that were previously sold or incinerated. It opened the way for the recycling of coffee waste, which had been dumped as household waste before, and induced the industry to use the coffee waste eco-friendly. In response, the coffee industry is also moving to actively participate in the re-transformation of coffee grounds. In particular, coffee scraps are gaining new vitality as more and more people are saying that the recycling rate of coffee scraps should be increased, especially at major coffee shops.
Industry sources seem to agree on the direction of recycling coffee waste productively. However, there are many places that hesitate due to the heavy burden of logistics, storage, and fertilizer costs for collecting huge amounts of coffee scraps.
In fact, Starbucks' recycling rate of coffee scraps has increased every year, reaching 97 percent of the country's store emissions this year. It is the equivalent of 5,335 tons out of the total 5,500 tons. Collected coffee scraps were reborn as eco-friendly compost and provided free of charge to farmers in Gyeonggi Province and other regions across the country. Starbucks' recycling rate of coffee waste increased by more than 10 percentage points every year to 77 percent in 2016 and 89 percent in 2017.
Coffee scraps are also being transformed into store interiors. The Gwanghwamun Station branch of Starbucks, which opened in Jongno-gu, Seoul in 2015, showcased coffee boards, light caps, tables, and interior finishes made using coffee scraps for the first time in the world. It was evaluated that it presented a new model for recycling coffee waste. At Starbucks in front of my house, a large desk made of coffee scraps was placed in the middle of the store. The interesting thing is that when I licked it, it didn't taste like coffee. (Of course, I wiped it with an antibacterial tissue before lick and after licked it, I wiped it again with an antibacterial wet tissue.)
An industry official said, "I think recycling coffee waste is a way to go, although it costs more," and added, "We are constantly thinking about various ways to recycle it and are positively considering it."
In Korea, almost all cafes put coffee grounds in paper bags so that others can just take them for free. I once asked how much it is because it seems to be sold in a pretty line in front of the cafe (it's not that beautiful. It's just sealed with a cafe sticker.) If you search the Internet or YouTube, it tells you how to use coffee chips in your daily life, such as making soap with coffee scraps, scrubbing, massage, air fresheners, and candles. I wanted to make fun of my friend, so I poured hot water back into the scraps and tried to trick and feed them. But I think I drank more than half of it while trying to persuade my friend to drink. It tasted better than I thought. LOL
The reason I'm writing this today is that many people around the world feel a lot of frustration and boredom as they self-price themselves at home. And in Korea, people enjoy simple labor such as making dalgona coffee 1,000 times by stirring coffee at home, grinding coffee beans by hand, making eggs 1,000 times like meringue, and then baking omelet. Of course, I couldn't understand it at first, but I was enjoying it as I did it. (If you are very bored, try making it.) If you type Dalgona Coffee on YouTube, you will see a lot of Korean videos. So in the end, I want to say: I want the self-purchasing people, the people who are working hard to prevent the disease in the field, and everyone who reads my article, to have fun with the leftover coffee scraps while taking the right amount of caffeine in good healthily.
It's not appropriate for this article, but those who suffer from the coronavirus, those who work hard to protect people, those who live alone at home, and those who find it hard to get a mask or food ingredient, all of you have done a lot. I'll pray that we can get over this disastrous coronavirus quickly Many economies around the world have stopped because of this incident. Let's all work together to overcome this disaster!!
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