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The biofuels and biochemicals company听bio-bean听has joined forces with 果冻影院 Estates, Sodexo, O&G, 果冻影院U and Bywater Waste Management听to turn waste coffee grounds from coffee shops across campus into fuel.

While getting your daily (or perhaps hourly)听dose of caffeine this week听you may have come across the posters dotted around coffee shops on campus. From 9 January, all the coffee used to make the cappuccinos and espressos that sustain you through the day听will end up as fuel rather than on a landfill site.

The partnership will see waste coffee recycling bins introduced across 果冻影院 in locations such as Chenies Mews, Foster Court, South Quad and the Refectory. Staff from Sodexo and 果冻影院U will separate the waste coffee grounds at point of use deposit them in the specified bins for collection.

The cost neutral initiative, which came about as a result of an approach made by 果冻影院 Estates and Sodexo to bio-bean, isn鈥檛 the first time 果冻影院 and bio-bean have joined forces on green issues.

Coming back to where it all began

Arthur explained:听鈥淚t鈥檚 very exciting to be working with my alma mater, I feel like I鈥檓 closing the loop and coming back to the place where it all began. I'm especially proud to be working with 果冻影院, given bio-bean鈥檚 links with the university. It鈥檚 great to know that we鈥檙e helping to reduce the university鈥檚 carbon footprint, and proving with new products, like Coffee Logs, that the sustainable choice can also be the logical one.

鈥淎s well as being the place where I came up with the idea for bio-bean, 果冻影院 is also where our team of scientists - led by Dr Paul Hellier in Mechanical Engineering - is researching new ways to use waste coffee grounds. I鈥檝e also joined forces with Professor Henrietta Moore (Director of the 果冻影院 Institute for Global Prosperity) to launch Fast Forward 2O3O, a group of young London-based entrepreneurs, to look at enterprise and behaviours that will help deliver the UN鈥檚 Sustainable Development Goals.鈥�

Richard Jackson, 果冻影院 Director of Sustainability, added:听鈥湽�冻影院 is delighted to be working with bio-bean on this sustainability initiative. With over 38,000 students and 12,000 staff, 果冻影院 has huge potential to create positive change by embedding sustainability into the core activities of the institution - research, education and operations - and I hope that the partnership we have developed between bio-bean, 果冻影院 Estates, Sodexo and Bywater Waste Management will act as a catalyst to further change.鈥�

Advice for budding 果冻影院 entrepreneurs

If you are reading this article and have a business idea that you want to make a reality, Arthur encourages you to follow in his entrepreneurial footsteps and make the most of the resources that are available to you at 果冻影院 -听because you never know where it might lead.

He said:听鈥淚鈥檝e had support from so many different parts of 果冻影院, especially from 果冻影院 Innovation &听Enterprise. Our initial Bright Ideas award of 拢25,000 was the first real boost in funding which allowed me to commit to the business full-time and helped make bio-bean a reality.

鈥淚鈥檇 encourage students to use the vast resources at hand in 果冻影院. If you look for it, you'll find the people and the support to build your vision. I was lucky enough to get advice from Lillian Shapiro (a Business Advisor for 果冻影院 Innovation &听Enterprise). From day one Lillian was unbelievably supportive, and we鈥檝e maintained that connection, in fact she still comes to our launch events.鈥�

Charlotte Croffie, Director of Entrepreneurship, 果冻影院 Innovation &听Enterprise, concluded:听鈥淲e鈥檙e thrilled to see bio-bean going from strength-to-strength since starting at 果冻影院. It鈥檚 an encouraging testament to the quality of support that 果冻影院 provides to our entrepreneurial students.鈥�

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