Team:UIUC Illinois/Project/Future

Environmental Remediation

Waste Matters
Knowing that caffeine could be degraded, we wondered what became of the coffee plants that were used and abused for the world's most socially acceptable drug. Coffee production is no light matter. Large amounts of water go into coffee processing, and subsequently a large amount of waste is developed. "Commercial coffee is obtained from coffee cherries, 6% of which generate the coffee powder whereas the remaining 94% constitute the by- products such as husk, pulp water etc." [3]