Wanna Recycle Your Coffee Grounds Into Printer Toner?

by Monika Bartyzel, Posted Feb 4th 2009 @ 4:01PM

I don't know about you, but I'm always wondering what to do with my coffee grounds -- and I don't even drink the stuff on a daily basis! So, how about using it to print out your important papers?

This is only an entry into the Greener Gadgets Competition right now, as Inhabitat explains, but the above RITI Coffee printer could be the wave of the future -- a very green future. You pour your grounds into a special cartridge (or tea!), get your paper ready, and move the cartridge back and forth. That somehow prints the words out on the paper. No electricity is needed since you do the work yourself, and no toxic or pricey toner to store.

I'm not quite sure exactly how it works, but I thought the idea. And man, imagine how tasty your paperwork will smell if you work with one of those suckers?

Filed Under: Drink Recipes, New Products
Tags: coffee, coffee grind printer, coffee grounds, CoffeeGrindPrinter, CoffeeGrounds, greener gadgets, GreenerGadgets, printer

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2-04-2009 @4:51PM christopher said... That's pretty neat. I'd have to guess its making ink by re-brewing the coffee or tea. If it doesn't use electricity I can't imagine how it receives your document or makes impressions on the paper (maybe its like them typo-majigs my parents used to use?).

I've been trying to grow oyster mushrooms on my grounds. I haven't had the resounding success the internet claims but I can see it working.
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2-05-2009 @10:34AM Dianne said... I always throw my used coffee grounds (and egg shells) into the garden. My grandmother always did it, and she grew the most beautiful flowers in the bed right outside her kitchen door. I'm a big fan of gardening the way my grandparents did -- as poor folk, they grew food because they had to. So their methods are more than good enough for me!
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