Ford & McDonald’s Are Making Car Parts From Coffee!
did you know Drinking up to four cups of coffee daily can reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes, according to the universities of Navarre in Spain and Catania in Italy.
Ford & McDonald’s are doing something cool with coffee.Did you know coffee chaff can be used to make car parts" We didn’t either but we thought it was pretty cool!
I’m pretty sure I’m the only guy in The Pacific Northwest that does not like coffee. I know, here in the land of Starbucks, that makes me very odd, but there’s not enough cream and sugar in the world to make that stuff not taste like ground up aspirin. Not that I’m opposed to coffee, and, after this goofy, yet fascinating news from Ford and McDonald’s, I’m even less opposed. Turns out, you can do some interesting stuff with the leftovers from your average cup of Joe.
Ford & McDonald’s Team Up
The leftovers in question is this stuff called chaff. Coffee chaff, the dried skin of the bean itself, naturally comes off during the roasting process. According to McDonald?s (the burger people), it adds up to millions of pounds of the stuff every year. So what do you do when you have tons of this chaff and you need to get rid of it" Turns out, you can use it to make certain car parts.
Headlamp housings, for example.
Photo: Ford Motor Company.
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