UK scientists turn coffee industry waste into electricity
by Adam Vaughan from Environment | The Guardian on (#40T6R)
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Scientists have turned coffee waste into electricity for the first time, in research that could help farmers and curb pollution in the developing world.
The coffee industry generates a huge amount of liquid waste during the process of turning the raw material of the tree - the coffee cherries - into the 9.5m tons of coffee the world produces each year.
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