Bio-bean

bio-bean Limited
Private
Industry Green Energy
Founded London, England 2013
Headquarters London, England
Number of employees
 25

bio-bean is a company that has industrialised the process of recycling waste coffee grounds into advanced biofuels, biomass pellets and, in the near future biodiesel.

The company is located in London, England and has built the world's first waste coffee recycling factory in Cambridgeshire. It was founded in 2013 by Arthur Kay.

In 2014 the company was awarded £400,000 as the winner of the Postcode Lottery Green Challenge contest.[1][2]

History

bio-bean was founded whilst Arthur Kay was still an architecture student at The Bartlett, University College London. Set the challenge of designing a coffee shop and roastery, Arthur realised that coffee was being wasted everywhere and set up bio-bean to recycle waste coffee grounds into advanced biofuels. His idea won awards and support from the Mayor of London, UCL, Tata, Santander and Shell. bio-bean became part of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation CE100 and their products were exhibited at The Science Museum. The company has also been awarded funding from Innovate UK.

bio-bean's story has attracted widespread press attention from The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph, Forbes, CNBC, CNN, Bloomberg, the Daily Mail, WIRED and many others.

bio-bean's London collection service was launched by Mayor Boris Johnson and conservative MP Zac Goldsmith and its 20,000 sq ft factory was opened in 2015, with the capacity to process 50,000 tonnes per year.

In 2015, Arthur Kay became the youngest ever Guardian Sustainable Business Leader of the Year.

Waste coffee collection

bio-bean collects waste coffee grounds from hundreds of coffee shops, restaurants, office blocks and coffee factories.

Advanced biofuels

bio-bean's products are second-generation biofuels. Pellet fuels, namely biomass pellets, from waste coffee grounds are burned in biomass boilers as a sustainable, local renewable heat alternative. bio-bean also produces a briquette and barbecue charcoal from waste coffee grounds. bio-bean conducts extensive research and development into biodiesel, biochemicals and further uses for waste coffee grounds and other organic waste streams.

See also

References

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  1. ↑ "I'll power buses with coffee grounds says winner of £400,000 eco prize". The Evening Standard.
  2. ↑ Minne Lentz. "Postcode Lottery Green Challenge - Arthur Kay: Bio-bean". Greenchallenge.info. Retrieved 2015-07-30.
  3. ↑ Tim Smedley. "Waste coffee grounds set to fuel London with biodiesel and biomass pellets". the Guardian. Retrieved 2015-07-30.
  4. ↑ "Wake up and smell the coffee". the Guardian. Retrieved 2015-07-30.
  5. ↑ "Turning Waste Coffee Grounds Into A Different Kind Of Fuel: Powering Your Car". Co.Exist. Retrieved 2015-07-30.
  6. ↑ "Grounds for optimism: Turning coffee into fuel". Cnbc.com. 2015-01-15. Retrieved 2015-07-30.
  7. ↑ Nina Trentmann (9 October 2014). "Bio-Bean: Londoner Student stellt Sprit aus Kaffee her - DIE WELT". DIE WELT. Retrieved 2015-07-30.
  8. ↑ "The entrepreneurs who are making money from muck". Telegraph.co.uk. 22 November 2013.
  9. ↑ "The BEAN machine". Mrw.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-07-30.
  10. ↑ "Bio-Bean turns coffee waste into fuel". Theaustralian.com.au. Retrieved 2015-07-30.
  11. ↑ Esha Chhabra. "Coffee Power: London Entrepreneur Uses the City's Coffee Waste for Fuel". Forbes. Retrieved 2015-07-30.
  12. ↑ "Bio-bean to bring coffee-to-biofuel service to UK stations". Businessgreen.com. Retrieved 2015-07-30.
  13. ↑ "Bio--Bean recycle waste coffee grounds to create advanced Biofuels". Wired UK. Retrieved 2015-07-30.


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