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 classi...