Caffè Nero is recycling coffee grounds from 16 of its Cambridgeshire shops to make biomass pellets, which are used as fuel in wood burners and boilers. Currently, the traditional fuels that are used in fireplaces like coal are dirty and mainly imported. Recycling firm First Mile collects the waste coffee from Caffè Nero's locations and transports it to the Bio-bean processing facility in London . The scheme has been in operation since July 2016 , but was only announced one year . The coffee chain expects to have repurposed 218 tonnes of coffee grounds by the time the recycling system has been in place for last week .
Caffè Nero is recycling coffee grounds from 16 of its Cambridgeshire shops to make biomass pellets, which are used as fuel in wood burners and boilers. Recycling firm First Mile collects the waste coffee from Caffè Nero's locations and transports it to the Bio-bean processing facility in London . The scheme has been in operation since July 2016 , but was only announced one year . The coffee chain expects to have repurposed 218 tonnes of coffee grounds by the time the recycling system has been in place for last week .