PITTSBURG, Ks. — Many mornings start with a cup of coffee. In fact, it’s the drink of choice for 150 million Americans every day.
Besides waking you up, it could also hold the key to creating a more sustainable future.
This was the basis for a masters project at Pittsburg State University, a project which has now opened a number of possibilities to help potentially reduce the two billion tons of waste the world sees every year.
“Most waste is dumped into the land, river, ocean, so it can cause severe environment depletion, so as a researcher we try to find an effective way to treat the waste,” says Jonghyun Choi, Pittsburg State University Masters Student.
Something as simple as a cup of coffee could be the answer, at least according to scientists at the Kansas Polymer Research Center.
“Most people like coffee,” says Choi.
“The waste coffee is kind…