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Ecoffeed on Agrofera programme
The LIFE Ecoffeed project has been one of the protagonists of Agrosfera, the current affairs programme about the countryside on Spanish national TV. Agrosfera aims to bring the latest news from the countryside and the [...]
Ecoffeed presents its results at the World Rural Forum Conference to more than 100 stakeholders
More than 100 people participated in the workshop organised by Life Ecoffeed to present its results. The project, which ends this March, has demonstrated the feasibility of using coffee by-products to produce ingredients for cattle [...]
3rd Advisory board meeting
Today, Thursday, March 21st, the 3rd meeting of the Advisory Board was held to present the final results of the project, as well as the implementation strategy of the full-scale solution. A very interesting round [...]
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 [...]
Coffee, more than just a drink
Technology has burst into the coffee sector. Digitalisation is a fact that, among other things, improves productivity and efficiency, is enabling the development of new products and services and is favouring customer relations. A second [...]
A ‘cafelito’ in cows’ diet
The largest cattle farm in the Basque Country has 1,000 head of cattle in Oleta (Álava) that produce five million litres of milk a year. For half a month, 150 of these cows had their [...]
30 % more resistant concrete can be produced with coffee grounds
Every year, 10 billion kilograms of coffee waste is produced worldwide, most of which ends up in landfills. However, this could change after a surprising discovery by a group of Australian researchers. The scientists have [...]
Milk production does not vary with feed containing coffee grounds
Today, Friday 06 January, the nutritional efficiency tests of the experimental diets based on coffee grounds in BEHIALDE's dairy farm come to an end. We will continue to collect milk production data for another month [...]
Cows from Fraisoro to taste coffee for the first time
The experimental feed with 10 % coffee grounds is being fed to cows and the production parameters as well as methane production are being measured to compare with the results of another batch of 12 [...]
Spanish TV covers Ecoffeed
The TV program "Tu tiempo con Roberto Brasero" of Antena 3 has broadcasted a report on the initiative of reusing spent coffee grounds as an ingredient in animal nutrition in which he interviews AZTI researchers [...]
The ECOFFEED consortium meets at AZTI
Today, Tuesday June 28th, the Life ECOFFEED project consortium met for the first time in person to receive the external monitoring monitor of NEEMO for the second time. The meeting went normally and the technical [...]
ECOFFEED at the International Conference on Sustainable Solid Waste Management
Yesterday, Wednesday 15 June, AZTI researchers presented the partial results of the Life ECOFFEED project at the 9th International Conference on Sustainable Solid Waste Management held in CORFU (Greece). Specifically, the presentation focused on strategies [...]
2nd Advisory board meeting
On Wednesday 08 June, the 2nd meeting of the Advisory Board was held to present the technical progress of the project to date. A very interesting round table was held to discuss key aspects of [...]
Neiker starts with nutritional efficiency testing
On Wednesday 23 February began the nutritional efficiency tests of the experimental diets based on coffee grounds (dry and hydrolysed) with milk-producing sheep. Over the next few days, NEIKER will manage the supply and control [...]
RIERA NADEU and AZTI conclude with the hydrolysis process
On Wednesday 16 February, scaling-up tests began on the hydrolysis process to improve the digestibility of the coffee grounds ingredient at the RIERA NADEU facilities in Granollers (Barcelona). AZTI researchers conducted the hydrolysis of the [...]
Ecoffeed is a member of the Food Waste Collaboration Network
The Life ECOFFEED project was presented at the webinar "Cooperation and Collaboration Network on Food Losses and Waste" organised by the FoodRus project. AZTI researchers discussed the main barriers and best practices identified so far [...]
Ecoffeed progresses successfully
On 4 February, the members of the Life ECOFFEED consortium met to analyse the technical and economic progress of the project to date. The meeting was led by AZTI as project coordinator with the collaboration [...]
Ecoffeed accelerating the future of sustainability
EKOGRAS and AZTI participate in the 4th International Meeting on Circular Economy "Circular Economy. Accelerating the future of Sustainability" organised by the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa. Afterwards, within the framework of this event, we visited [...]
Productive meeting with Naturklima
Last Tuesday, November 30, we met with Mikel Orive from Naturklima and had the opportunity to present him the objectives and expected results of the Life ECOFFEED project and the progress made to date. Naturklima [...]
Semi-industrial scale demonstration test is successful
The semi-industrial scale demonstration test of the technological solution developed in the previous actions of the project begins. The collection of approximately 21 tons of coffee grounds from the HORECA sector and their dehydration to [...]
An informative video about Ecoffeed is out
In order to make the project accessible to the general public and to explain the project in a clear and entertaining way, we have produced an informative video presenting the rationale of the project, the [...]
3 suggestions identified for capsule collection improvement
We continue to work on optimizing the collection of coffee capsules from vending machines through reverse logistics. A real route for the replacement of new Euskovazza capsules has been monitored. Thus, the protocol planned for [...]
Alberto Cipelli visits AZTI to learn about the Life ECOFFEED project and analyse potential synergies
Alberto Cipelli, CEO of the Espressa company dedicated to the importation of Lavazza products in Spain, has visited the AZTI facilities in Derio to know more about the Life ECOFFEED project and analyse potential synergies. [...]