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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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