Mushrooms Espresso
Filters
Promoters
start up innovativa | innovative start up
Project typology
nuovi prodotti da rifiuti alimentari | new products from food waste
Area of action
scarti e rifiuti alimentari | food waste
Impacts
economico | economic
Beneficiaries
attività locali | local activities
Reference scale
distretto produttivo | productive district
Description
Mashrooms Espresso is a project for promoting the recycling of coffee waste in agriculture; it started with a study presented at the showroom "The taste of a sustainable coffee". Out of that study, a pilot project in environmental educatio: "from coffee to proteins" is realized, with the participation of almost 200 students from the Ilio Micheloni Institute that cultuvated the Pleurotus Ostreatus using a coffee waste substratum. After this sperimentation, the Funghi Espresso adventure is started! Nowadays a productive site has been opened in Capannori (Lucca) and many restaurants are buying the produced mushrooms. A kit for self cultivation is also produced and training sessions are organized. The initiative received many recognitions in Italy and participated to Expo 2015.
Tags
coffee waste mushroom production industrial ecologyPromoters
It all started at the Zero Waste Research Center of Capannoru, where Rossano Ercolini promoted the first feasibility study. Nowadays, the team is constitued by an agronomist, an architect and an etrepreneur.
Effects
waste reduction , raw matter costs reduction, sustainable branding
