Coffeefrom

Coffeefrom is an Italian company that turns exhausted coffee grounds into thermoplastic materials and semi-finished compounds, developed with research and compounding partners. Grounds collected from industrial sources become a second raw material, processed into granules and sheets that designers and manufacturers can use in place of virgin plastic.

The project grew out of Il Giardinone, a social cooperative working in environmental services since 1996. Its circular-economy research started at Expo 2015 with Lavazza, Novamont and the Politecnico di Torino, first on mushroom cultivation and then, from 2019, on technical materials under the Coffeefrom name. The company operates as an innovative start-up with a social vocation, processing around 700 tonnes of coffee grounds a year and employing people from disadvantaged backgrounds.