Nescafé creates a table with 16 kilos of coffee poses

Coffee poses to create furniture

Las malas lenguas comentan que el café es la segunda bebida más consumida del mundo, por supuesto, después del agua. Así que ya podemos imaginar el impacto ambiental que tiene.

The daily gesture of emptying the filter or coffee blap in the garbage can, those coffee poses, is a huge amount of waste worldwide.

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The coffee table - Nescafé Coffee Table intends to show us that it is possible to transform coffee poses into a blunt, elegant object and that we all have a small table at home!

Nescafé Canada partnered with the retahink agency of Canadian designer Jesus Moen to build a unique coffee table, made with real coffee poses.

To be exact, about 16 kilos of coffee poses.Mixed with ecological resin based on soybean and compressed in high pressure molds with the posterior polished and mounted.

Actually, the furniture is designed to attract attention to the Cup of respect of Nescafé.Brand initiative that explains how to cultivate, make and package coffee in a "respectful".

Using less water and advising farmers (coffee growers) who propose various crops to combat the production monoculture that prevails in the category.

As Carm Dasilva, marketing vice president explains ... "The world brand uses 10% of the world's coffee, which means that its sustainability commitments to improve the planet have an excessive impact compared to competition".

Good for the brand initiatives to try to benefit the environment and promote sustainability, but, not everything is so beautiful.

And more, when the narrative on "sustainability" comes from large companies, the concept of Greenwashing or "Green Washing" is always on the looksAmong others, they don't go very well stopped.But that is another story!

But ... are there other projects that recycle coffee poses?Yes, and they are quite interesting.

Starting with Decafé.A material made with coffee poses, natural binders and mineral loads with which they have been able to create a wide variety of really beautiful object.

They have lamps, all kinds of vases, candle holders, etc..And also, contributing value to society, 10!And you can consult the company Decafé here.

The Greencup program provides the most modern offices in the United Kingdom of Fair Trade and then collects their waste to convert them into fertilizer.From there came the idea of re-worked, non-profit products that use coffee and plastic waste to create a new material called çurface.A material that is durable, pleasant to touch and also has coffee aroma.

From that last project different furniture appeared, even Google at the time used Greencup services and bought design furniture manufactured by Re-worked.

From Germany, the Kaffeeform company manufactures coffee cups, cups, dishes made of used coffee poses.They started in 2009, after countless express and experiments they found the prototype.The dishes are durable, light and suitable for the dishwasher.

Although it seems crazy, coffee waste can also be used in the textile field.From sports as the NAT-2 brand that launched its Coffee Line line to t-shirts.

Taiwanese company Singtex.Is providing fresh clothes that have additional benefits such as deodorizing properties. Utilizan un proceso patentado para reciclar los restos del café usados ​​en hilo, que luego se convierte en telas que son resistentes a los olores e incluso a los rayos UV.

And if you look a little more on the Internet, in reality, there are a lot of initiatives where you are investigated and many others directly manufacture all kinds of objects, sports, dresses, etc..

Nor is it necessary to be an engineer to recycle coffee poses.We can give you several uses for your properties, even if it is a waste:

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