Récoffee lamp

Récoffee lamp

Récoffee lamp

The world produces huge amounts of coffee grounds every day, and we seldom pay attention to this problem. Coffee ground still can play a valuable role of reusing if you preserve it well. For some small café, it is difficult to join the circular system. Récoffee lamp is a product that you can dry coffee ground easily. Récoffee lamps can collect coffee grounds and give off the fragrance.
Nowadays, some companies are starting to organize a flow of recycling coffee grounds to reuse for new life. For individual coffee-lovers, coffee grounds still can play a valuable role of reusing.

How much coffee grounds do we produce?
The world population drinks over 2.25 billion cups of coffee every day. With an estimated average of 11 grams of fresh ground coffee going into each cup, around 381,000 tonnes of ground coffee are brewed every year, resulting in an estimated quarter of a million tonnes of wet, waste coffee grounds.

Typically, spent coffee grounds are dumped into general waste and sent to landfill where they emit methane – a greenhouse gas 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide over 100 years, and one of the primary causes of global warming. What most people don’t know is that there is still significant value remaining in spent coffee grounds.

Nowadays, people try to think about reusing coffee grounds to make a new product, such as cloth, fuel, or shoes. Besides huge amounts of reusing coffee grounds from a big company, there are still several ways of creative usage for small café or coffee clubs that are difficult to join the recycle system. For example, fertilize, neutralize odors, exfoliate your skin……Sometimes, coffee grounds will be dumped because of their small amount and no knowledge of reusing it. When we collect it every day, it can create new value for the environment or small café itself.

To preserve the coffee grounds, the first and important thing to do is to dry the wet coffee grounds. This process is a pain point for most people who are lazy or who don’t have an appropriate environment to dry coffee grounds. They usually get stuck at the first stage and decide to dump it.

Product concept
Récoffee lamp is a product that you can dry coffee ground easily. It targets small coffee shops or companies who don’t have devices or sunshine to dry coffee grounds or who don’t have too much time tackling coffee grounds. The truth is that something also produces heat indoors, such as light, air conditioner…. If we make good use of heat, we don’t need to create more energy for heating. That is how the Récoffee lamp works. It acts its lighting role, but also provides a space and environment for drying and preserving coffee grounds. It also creates the appearance with a connection to the space of drinking coffee.

Product journey
You are the coffee maker in a cafe. When you finish making coffee, you can collect it in the container. In your free time, you can pull down the Récoffee lamp from the ceiling and pour coffee ground evenly on the lamp. The heat that comes from the light will dry the coffee ground and give off coffee fragrance. The coffee ground will also be the lampshade, which fits the natural and relaxing atmosphere. When the coffee ground has already dried, you can reuse it individually or use it to make small gifts to your customers. You can also sort different flavours or thickness of coffee grounds in different Récoffee lamps, which can also be the coffee grounds display space.