Dec 05

Ford Is Making Car Parts From the Skin of McDonald’s Coffee Beans

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In a new partnership with McDonald’s, Ford is using coffee chaff–the dried coffee bean skin that comes off during roasting–to build car parts. The United States produces around 1 million pounds of coffee chaff per week, according to Debbie Mielewski, Ford’s senior technical leader of the sustainability and emerging materials research team. Some of that…

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