Shell is working as part of a collaboration to power a number of London buses with biofuel made from waste coffee grounds. The energy giant is working with bio-bean to help scale-up its innovative B20 coffee oil-based biofuel. Buses and a number of other diesel vehicles can run using the fuel without need for any […]

Caffè Nero has unveiled new plans to use waste coffee grounds to make low carbon fuel. It has joined forces with recycling company First Mile, which picks up coffee waste from 122 Caffè Nero stores in Greater London and takes it to bio-bean’s Cambridgeshire factory. It is then converted into pellets that can be used […]

Waste coffee grounds collected from cafes in London are to be used to heat thousands of homes. The capital-wide scheme will see biofuel company bio-bean turn coffee waste into biomass pellets. It comes as the firm won the Low Carbon Entrepreneur Award in 2012. bio-bean’s factory has the capacity to process 50,000 tonnes of waste […]

A British firm which “upcycles” coffee grounds into fuel is shortlisted to bag a €500,000 (£401k) prize. Bio-bean, co-founded by Arthur Kay uses a patented process to turn the waste coffee into two advanced biofuel products, biodiesel and biomass pellets. These can be used for powering buildings and transport systems. The company is one of five […]