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Putting coffee waste to good use

Posted on January 31, 2012January 26, 2012 by Matt
Category:Coffee
Taggedbioethanol, farming, growing

Growing coffee, like any crop, is a multi-step process that the end users don’t fully appreciate or understand. One step, washing the beans, produces a syrup-like waste material called mucilage. Engineers in Columbia are experimenting with taking this waste product, and using it to convert bioethanol which can then be burned as fuel – in […]

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