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.

Context

Coffee consumption:

  • Coffee World consumption involves hugh quantities of spent coffee spent grain and coffee capsules which is necessary to manage.
  • 1 kg of coffee consumption leads to a generation of about 2 kg wet spent coffee grounds.
  • 1 coffee capsule leads to 18 g wet spent coffee ground and 3 g of plastics and aluminium.
  • The disposal of organic waste in landfill involves 0.26 CO2 eq./kg of organic waste.

EU livestock diets:

  • The EU produces million tonnes of raw milk from dairy cattle and sheeps.
  • It is necessary to minimize the environmental impact of livestock activity.
  • Million hectares of land in Europe is used to graze livestock or produce feed. More than half of the arable land is dedicated to feeding farm animals.

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.

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