AirXCoffee (making plastic goods from coffee bio-composite)
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Category:
Substitute
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Founder:
Thanh Le
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Stage:
Production
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Time:
2015
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Funded project/grant:
Shark Tank VN
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Phase:
Scale
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Co-founder:
Brief Innovation
To create the coffee-based material, AirXCoffee dries spent coffee grounds at low humidity and crushes them into small particles. The recycled materials are also pre-crushed before being mixed with the grounds and melted together at a high temperature. The product is then left to harden and broken into small bullet shaped pieces. The first mask prototype uses a formula of recycled materials, polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic and coffee grounds.