July 2013 - Arthur Kay (bio-bean Ltd)

Winner of a Shell LiveWIRE Grand Ideas Award in July 2013, bio-bean recycles coffee grounds into biodiesel and biomass pellets. The idea is unique in that it is the culmination of three concepts: waste collection, biomass pellet production, and biodiesel production. bio-bean will collect waste coffee grounds from coffee houses, roasters and instant coffee producers in London, and then deliver the waste to bio-bean’s processing plant where it will be converted to biofuel, which bio-bean will then sell.