Did you know, used coffee grounds can reduce deforestation because they contain many of the same properties as palm oil?
In this episode of the Sustainability Matters Today podcast, I interview Fergus Moore, Co-Founder of Revive Eco and #Champion of Diverting Coffee Grounds from Landfill.
Revive Eco collects and recycles used coffee grounds to produce a range of eco-friendly products. Recently, they were chosen as a Solve - MIT Global Finalist for their proposal of converting coffee grounds into high value, natural oils. For their innovation, Revive-Eco received the LiveWIRE Smarter Future Award in 2016, a Green Champion Award from the Glasgow Business Awards in 2017, a grant from Zero Waste Scotland’s Circular Economy Investment Fund in 2018, and recently they were semi-finalists in the Chivas Venture Final in 2019, for which they received $20,000 in prize money.
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Resources
Palm Oil: wwf.org.uk/updates/8-things-know-about-palm-oil
Palmitic Acid: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmitic_acid
Linoleic Acid: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linoleic_acid
Oleic Acid: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleic_acid
Stearic Acid: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stearic_acid
Circular Economy: ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/circular-economy/concept
Ellen Macarthur Foundation: ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/
Iceland palm oil advert: youtube.com/watch?v=oA10-oZi4Xc
Gabe Brown’s SMT Episode: bit.ly/gabe-brown-SMT
May Al Karooni’s SMT Episode: bit.ly/MayAlKarooniSMT
You can read the transcript of this episode here: http://bit.ly/Fergus_Moore_SMT
Watch the full episode: https://sustainabilitym.at/Youtube-Fergus-Moore
