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Gourmet mushrooms from coffee grounds

Peets’s Coffee and Tea and BTTR have teamed up in a unique venture. Peet’s provides coffee grounds (that otherwise would be dumped in landfills) and BTTR uses them to grow different varieties of mushrooms. They use about a ton of…

Recycling tires to make new tires

Recycling 30 million old tires to create new ones Magnum D’Or Resources is buying a landfill containing more than 30 million tires and using their special technology, will create new rubber and tires from them. CleanTechnica has more

Bruce Foods using methane waste to power itself

Bruce Foods, a manufacturer of Tex-Mex food and hot sauces is converting a plant to run on recovered methane. The Wilson plant, one of four owned by the Tex-Mex specialist, produces canned yams, potatoes and gravies, which results in huge…