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Related: About this forumScientists Discover An Amazing Practical Use For Leftover Coffee Grounds
"The disposal of organic waste poses an environmental challenge as it emits large amounts of greenhouse gases including methane and carbon dioxide, which contribute to climate change," explained RMIT University engineer Rajeev Roychand.
With a booming construction market globally, there's also an ever increasing demand for resource intensive concrete causing another set of environmental challenges too..
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-Organic products like coffee grounds can't be added directly to concrete because they leak chemicals that weaken the building material's strength. So using low energy levels the team heated coffee waste to over 350 °C (around 660 °F) while depriving it of oxygen.
This process is called pyrolyzing. It breaks down the organic molecules, resulting in a porous, carbon-rich charcoal called biochar, that can form bonds with and thereby incorporate itself into the cement matrix.
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-discover-an-amazing-practical-use-for-leftover-coffee-grounds
2naSalit
(92,678 posts)If someone will come and get it.
Easterncedar
(3,522 posts)Id accept contributions!
Warpy
(113,130 posts)took off and got enormous and produced enough for me to can or freeze. The ex's coffee grounds went into the garden daily after that, side dressings in summer, sheet composting in winter.
GreenWave
(9,167 posts)niyad
(119,901 posts)that.
SheilaAnn
(10,138 posts)niyad
(119,901 posts)niyad
(119,901 posts)waste. They go either into the compost bin, or directly around plants.
EYESORE 9001
(27,515 posts)The processes will undoubtedly be optimized and economies of scale will bring down cost. Making cement is even more energy-intensive, plus its a polluter of air, soil, and water., however, so longer-lasting concrete will reduce the need for processing as much cement.
Shermann
(8,641 posts)Those high temps are a challenge though.
central scrutinizer
(12,441 posts)Seem to love coffee grounds. But I havent tried decaf grounds.
SarahD
(1,732 posts)You can buy a little worm farm for your kitchen. They gobble up coffee grounds vegetable bits, etc. It's surprising how greedy they are.
Orrex
(64,101 posts)NJCher
(37,868 posts)is anywhere from $8-12. It is so desirable that I thought I'd make it myself. Then I found the directions for doing so and changed my mind real fast.
Tough to do.
AllyCat
(17,102 posts)Garden LOVES them!
MyMission
(2,000 posts)Added coffee grounds to paint to give it texture.
Interesting on canvas, and on the walls.
I compost mine.
Hekate
(94,636 posts)I have a pot of shamrocks that a friend gave me and they often struggle, I think because the air is dry and the sun is intense when it slants beneath the patio roof. I finally dumped a weeks worth of moist coffee grounds all over it, and very shortly the pot was full of greenery again. I have a couple of pots of mint on the wall beneath the oak tree, and something ate them to the bare stems Im used to mint being hardier than that, but I gave them the same treatment and new growth came right up. I hope whatever ate them doesnt like coffee.
I am so glad I gave up the Keurig!!.
hlthe2b
(106,340 posts)hlthe2b
(106,340 posts)NNadir
(34,661 posts)The problem of concrete is very real, but this press release which, in my opinion, borders on silly, one of those wonderful expressions of the wishful thinking that substitutes for serious approaches to very exigent problems.