The wastes of coffee bean processing for utilization in food: a review

SS Arya, R Venkatram, PR More, P Vijayan - Journal of Food Science and …, 2022 - Springer
A few million cubic tons of waste are generated annually as a result of coffee processing. As
a beverage, coffee in itself is a rich source of melanoidins, phenolic compounds, and other …

Features and functions of multifunctional urban agriculture in the global north: a review

F Orsini, G Pennisi, N Michelon, A Minelli… - … in Sustainable Food …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
In recent years, urban agriculture (UA) projects have bloomed throughout the world, finding
large applications also in the developed economies of the so-called Global North. As …

Spent coffee grounds characterization and reuse in composting and soil amendment

ASC Bomfim, DM De Oliveira, E Walling, A Babin… - Waste, 2022 - mdpi.com
As an everyday beverage, coffee is consumed worldwide, generating a high amount of
waste after brewing, which needs attention for its disposal. These residues are referred to as …

The potential of spent coffee grounds in functional food development

E Bevilacqua, V Cruzat, I Singh, RB Rose'Meyer… - Nutrients, 2023 - mdpi.com
Coffee is a popular and widely consumed beverage worldwide, with epidemiological studies
showing reduced risk of cardiovascular disease, cancers and non-alcoholic fatty liver …

Circular reutilization of coffee waste for sound absorbing panels: A perspective on material recycling

BY Yun, HM Cho, YU Kim, SC Lee, U Berardi… - Environmental research, 2020 - Elsevier
The increase in coffee consumption has led to increased production of coffee waste.
Methods to recycle coffee waste are constantly being researched. Coffee powder is a porous …

Evaluation of thermal/acoustic performance to confirm the possibility of coffee waste in building materials in using bio-based microencapsulated PCM

JY Choi, BY Yun, YU Kim, Y Kang, SC Lee… - Environmental Pollution, 2022 - Elsevier
As the demand for coffee has increased, by-product disposal has become a challenge to
solve. Many studies are being conducted on how to use coffee waste as building materials …

Energy-saving drying strategy of spent coffee grounds for co-firing fuel by adding biochar for carbon sequestration to approach net zero

KT Lee, JY Tsai, AT Hoang, WH Chen, DS Gunarathne… - Fuel, 2022 - Elsevier
Drying is an important but energy-intensive industrial process, while spent coffee grounds
can be used as an abundant and potential biomass waste to replace part of the coal …

Spent coffee grounds applied as a top-dressing or incorporated into the soil can improve plant growth while reducing slug herbivory

FG Horgan, D Floyd, EA Mundaca, E Crisol-Martínez - Agriculture, 2023 - mdpi.com
Between 8 and 15 million tons of spent coffee grounds (SCG) are produced as global waste
each year. To reduce waste to landfill, SCG are proposed as a carbon and nutrient source …

Washed hydrochar from spent coffee grounds: A second generation of coffee residues. Evaluation as organic amendment

A Cervera-Mata, L Lara, A Fernández-Arteaga… - Waste Management, 2021 - Elsevier
Spent coffee grounds (SCG) hydrochar is a second-generation solid waste obtained by
hydrothermal carbonization (HTC). Two washed hydrochars from SCG (175 and 185° C; 12 …

Phytotoxicity and chelating capacity of spent coffee grounds: Two contrasting faces in its use as soil organic amendment

A Cervera-Mata, M Navarro-Alarcón… - Science of The Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Spent coffee grounds (SCG) are a bioresidue generated in large amounts worldwide, which
could be employed as either fresh or transformed organic soil amendment, by means of …