Tags: #np2774

1. Problem: Waste (as a resource)
2. Article Takeaways:

• Kaffe Bueno is a Copenhagen-based company specializing in the recycling and combining of used coffee grounds with biotechnology.
• When used for brewing coffee, under 1% of beneficial compounds found in coffee beans, including polyphenols, cellulose, hemicellulose, lipids, tocopherols, are extracted – leaving 99% disposed.
• They plan on extracting the antioxidant-rich coffee arabica seed oil to be used as an active ingredient in cosmetics.
• Article Source: Kaffe Bueno Brews Up Skin Care Benefits with Recycled Coffee Oil (gcimagazine.com)

• The company has just joined the Yield Lab Europe which recently secured a $61m investment for its sustainable agrifoodtech fund. Other companies in the Yield Lab include: ApisProtect, Equimetrics, MicroGen Biotech, Micron Agritech, N2 Applied, and RootWave.
• Article Source: The Yield Lab Europe secures $61m for sustainable agrifoodtech fund (agfundernews.com)

3. Organizational Stakeholders:

• Hotel chains
• Personal care, nutraceuticals, and food/beverage companies
• Partner collectors
• Coffee suppliers

4. Deployment:

• Enlist company to perform in-vitro tests to determine the efficacy of Recycled Coffee Oil. (Tests determined a variety of benefits, including anti-aging, anti-cellulite, sun care, moisturizing, wound healing and skin whitening.)
• Determine which Danish hotel chains or other office/commercial partners to collaborate with to take the spent coffee grounds from guests and upcycle them back in personal care products in the hotels/offices.
• Scale-up production to meet current demand from food makers in the Nordics and Western Europe.