Re-worked, an English company founded by a group of designers and engineers who work to combine industrial design and green technologies, has found a way to create nothing less than tables and chairs with coffee grounds.
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves himAfter proposing the various possibilities and the "home" alternatives of reuse of coffee grounds as well as some original ideas for recycling this organic waste material, let's go back to the topic to now present a large-scale recycling project linked tofurniture and design industryn. Re-worked, an English company founded by a group of designers and engineers who deal with combining industrial design and green technologies, he found a way to make nothing less than tables and chairs with coffee grounds.
In fact, it is precisely the coffee grounds mixed with recycled plastic post-consumer are the main ingredients of a new material called çurface (name which is a mix between Coffee + Surface) using which the company in question will make one new furniture series.
I coffee grounds to be used in the transformation process come from offices, cafes, and factories, but also from the waste of English food companies.
They come cleaned and sterilized and subsequently mixedi, with plastic from waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE). Plastic waste is supplied and processed by Axion Polymer, a company specialized in recycling of plastic products.
The çurface slabs which are therefore made up of 99% recycled material and, according to those who have touched them, they offer a new tactile sensation, something very similar to a cross between leather and wood. Of course they are brown in color and, as you can imagine, they give off the aroma of coffee.
Adam Fairweather, managing director of Re-worked says: “The coffee it is now a globalized product and is a symbol of contemporary culture; for this reason we have chosen to re-use and transform waste that derive from it to strongly communicate the message that design can be ecological, sustainable and functional at the same time ".
At Re-worked they are convinced that the new çurface material will have great market potential; in fact, its raw material is not lacking: coffee waste is abundant (in Great Britain alone 14.000 tons are consumed per month) and they can be easily separated and recycled for alternative use.
The manufacturing company intends initially propose this type of furniture to chains of bars and cafes, so as to sensitize consumers in an intelligent and concrete way to eco-sustainable recycling. The customers of these places will then sip their coffee knowing full well that the waste will have a second life and will not end up in the landfill.
Paola Valeri
