Yo my peeps I’ve got a special, non-nail related blog post
for you today. If you didn’t know I am in an Environmental class and for our
final project we needed to come up with something that would impact the Earth.
I was thinking about what I could do while sipping on a cup of coffee when I
realized… wow... I drink a crap ton of coffee. I’m sure a lot of you guys drink coffee
on a daily basis as well. So I did some (bee bee boop bee bee boop) research and
found out coffee grounds can be recycled.
Let me spit out some facts for you. According to
carryyourcup.org, Americans consume 400 million cups of coffee per day which is
146 billion cups of coffee per year. The U.S. is the leading consumer of coffee
in the WORLD. Just think about the amount of coffee grounds that would be and
that’s only for the United States. We also throw away 25 billion Styrofoam coffee
cups each year and 2.5 million plastic cups every hour. This website
has a lot of info and it even has a pledge you can take to carry your own cup,
so go there if you want. Anyway, back to coffee. “Growers produce more than 16 billion pounds of coffee around the world each year.” You can use coffee
grounds for many things like fuel or, on a smaller scale, fertilizer; coffee doesn't
belong in dumps people.
For my project specifically I collected coffee grounds from
my house and some from my father’s workplace and used that to fertilize mine
and my family’s gardens (and I also went to my local forest nature reserve and sprinkled coffee dust
like a fairy). The coffee helps add nutrients like nitrogen and potassium and,
when mixed with other compost materials, can really help a plant grow. I tested
this on some plants and it proved to be true. You can ask me about that if you’d
like to know more in depth.
I decided that if I
saved even a week’s worth of coffee grounds at home that I could help the
Earth. If everyone did that we could make a big change. There are many other
things you can do with used coffee grounds besides this as well (which you ca
view here) so that way even if you don’t have a garden there may be other options. I
just thought I’d let you know that the Earth is important and anything we can
do, even something as small as this, can make a difference. In short, recycle
your coffee, recycle in general, because Earth Day is every day. I’ll have more
nail stuff soon (I took a break as I am in a creative stump). BYYEEE
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