What if the waste coffee grounds could also produce energy to help power the planet? That’s exactly what bio-bean does.

At bio-bean’s factory, the grounds are recycled into biomass pellets and briquettes called Coffee Logs. These make excellent fuel for heating buildings and powering factories.

But it needn’t stop there. Research is now heading towards liquid fuels and biochemicals. Each tonne of waste is capable of making up to 250 litres of fuel; enough to run a London bus for 3.5 days.

Every tonne of waste coffee grounds recycled using bio-bean's technology saves 6.8 tonnes of CO2 emissions. Which is like driving from London to Beijing, twice. It is a perfect example of the new circular economy.

bio-bean has built the world’s first coffee recycling factory in Alconbury, Cambridgeshire, with the capacity to recycle the waste from one in ten cups of coffee drunk in the UK every year.

This unique factory produces Coffee Logs – a carbon neutral, high-performance biofuel for the home. When Coffee Logs were launched for sale on Amazon, they rapidly becoming the best-seller in Home and furniture section.

Users started using Coffee Logs to heat their own houses, and left hundreds of good reviews.

bio-bean has been featured on BBC, The Times, The Guardian, The Sun, The Telegraph, Financial Times, Mashable, The World Bank, Forbes, CNBC, Wired, Daily Mail and dozens more.

The company is three and half years old and already employs 40 people.

bio-bean is an award-winning clean technology company, supported by Shell, that has industrialised the process of recycling waste coffee grounds into advanced biofuels.

It addresses a real problem currently happening in the world.

By 2050, the world will need double its current energy supply.

We need to promote and power clean and better energy ideas.

And we need to do it together.

Millions of us enjoy an energy-boosting cup of coffee to help us start the day.

But among the coffee factories, coffee shops, and offices, the 70 million cups of coffee consumed every day in the UK generate thousands of tonnes of used coffee grounds. And they often head directly for landfill where they release potent greenhouse gases like methane and CO2.