SEOUL, Apr. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Starbucks coffee grounds are composted and sprayed on farmland, and agricultural products grown as food for the compost will be reborn as Starbucks products. Starbucks Coffee Korea Co. announced on Tuesday that it had signed a mutually beneficial agreement with the city of Pyeongtaek on Monday, along with the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Starbucks Coffee Korea Co. said on Monday that it is planning to recycle more than 5,500 tons of coffee grounds to achieve recycle rate of 97 percent by the end of this year. Starbucks began recording the quantity of coffee grounds it was recycling in 2014 to focus on [...]
SEOUL, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government has launched a recycling program to encourage the use of used coffee grounds as fertilizer. The new program is being trialed in a number of districts across the city including Jongno and Guro Districts, where 2,600 coffee shops will set aside used coffee grounds in transparent [...]
SEOUL, April 5 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Environment (MoE) in collaboration with Starbucks Korea and the Korea Zero Waste Movement Network held an event at Seoul Forest yesterday to celebrate Arbor Day, which is today. The event encouraging the recycling of resources including used coffee grounds took place as yesterday marked the first [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean researchers have developed a technology to generate electricity from wasted coffee grounds for carbon fuel cells, next-generation high-temperature fuel cells. By taking advantage of the used coffee grounds, the technology is expected to offer new possibilities as an energy source while contributing to environmental protection, by providing stable electric [...]