New strategies for the coffee by-products recovery as a new raw material for animal feed
The European iniciative LIFE ECOFFEED is intended to increase the value of spent coffee ground (SCG) and spent coffee capsules into high value secondary materials for dairy sheep and cattle feeding.
LIFE ECOFFEED will define and demonstrate the viability of a technology solution for the recovery of coffee by products as a new ingredient for animal feed.
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How LIFE ECOFFEED can contribute
The inclusion of spent coffee ground as ingredient for dairy animals feed in the project area will allow:
The substitution of curren raw material for feed production.
Diminishing the land occupation for feeding farm animals.
Reduction of methane emissions due to the beneficial effect of SCG in the rumial methanogenesis.
Lastes News
LIFE ECOFFEED features in CINEA´s magazine
Our project has been published by the European Executive Agency for Climate, Infrastructure and Environment. You can read a summary below but don’t miss the full article on their website. […]
Cows from Álava drink coffee
Azti research confirms that feeding coffee grounds reduces bovine methane emissions by 20%. Every household in Spain consumes 83.3 kilos of coffee a year. In Alava, the coffee tradition is chewed at street level, with [...]
Ecoffeed in the headlines of the Spanish TV channel “La Sexta”.
La Sexta Noticias interviewed David San Martín, coordinator of the Ecoffeed project, to find out more about this initiative that has managed to introduce coffee grounds into the cows and sheeps´ feed. They also interviewed [...]