Java, joe, brew, go juice, cuppa – there are many names for the dark elixir that brings life to the morning hours and caps off a festive evening with friends. Coffee is an integral part of the daily routine for people in much of the world, and its consumption comes with a host of hotly debated benefits and risks for the human body. Recently, researchers in South Korea discovered another feature to add to the list of benefits – but this time, it’s for the health of the planet. Used coffee grounds – an innocuous if somewhat annoying side effect of coffee drinking – can be recycled into carbon capture material, thus helping to rid the atmosphere of harmful greenhouse gases. And the best thing about used coffee grounds, of course, is that the world is already producing tons and tons of it.
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