Researchers at Oregon State University said they’ve created a way to turn a common food byproduct into useful food packaging. OSU’s findings were just published in the Journal of Food Science, showing used coffee grounds can be converted into a flexible material that could eventually replace plastic wrap. Assistant Professor Jooyeoun Jung leads the team and says the work aligns with previous efforts using waste from apples and grapes.
“Eco-friendly packaging, we had biodegradable packaging, edible packaging, using all that waste.”
Jung said they remove everything that makes coffee… coffee, so all that remains is the usable cellulose…