Sustainability — Planet

Coffee has a problem.
We're helping turn waste into potential.

Did you know?

A global challenge hiding in plain sight.

Coffee is one of the world's favourite drinks. But every cup leaves behind spent coffee grounds, and globally, that adds up to more than 10 billion kilograms a year. Most of it goes straight to landfill, where it decomposes without oxygen and releases methane, one of the most potent greenhouse gases.

Instead of treating coffee grounds as rubbish, innovators around the world are developing entirely new material systems, turning them into textiles, foams, composites and durable everyday products. Yesterday's waste is becoming tomorrow's raw material.

This is where LUNGO begins: connecting and showcasing brands that dare to turn that waste into something valuable, giving it a second life, and keeping it out of landfill.

28xMORE POTENT THAN CO₂

Methane is up to 28 times more harmful than CO₂ over a 100-year period. The world generates more than 10 billion kilograms of spent coffee grounds every year, and most of it ends up in landfill.

Coffee performance fibre

S.Café®

Developed in Taiwan, S.Café incorporates recycled coffee grounds into polyester yarns. The result is a lightweight, high-performance textile with natural odour control, moisture management and quick-drying properties.

Coffee leather alternative

M-Tex

This material combines coffee waste with bio-based binders to create a flexible material designed as an alternative to conventional leather.

Plant-based biocomposite

Flax Seed Composite

Ochis transforms flaxseed residues into durable biocomposite sheets with a distinctive natural appearance, designed as an alternative to petroleum-based plastics.

Coffee-based foam

C-Foam

A lightweight material developed by Bell Living Lab, using spent coffee grounds as part of a bio-based foam system that demonstrates how agricultural waste can replace virgin fossil-based foams in select applications.

Coffee composite polymer

Coffee Ground PU

Spent coffee grounds are blended into polyurethane-based materials, creating durable components with reduced virgin material content.

10B kg Coffee grounds produced globally per year
28× Methane vs CO₂ potency over 100 years
2.5M Cups of grounds per tonne of S.Café® fiber
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Why it matters

The circular story starts in the field and ends with you.

The most exciting shift in sustainable design isn't a new synthetic. It's the realisation that agricultural waste streams like coffee already contain the raw material for an entirely new generation of materials.

At LUNGO, we make that opportunity real. We connect people with the brands transforming coffee into fabrics, foams and everyday materials worth discovering and choosing.

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75,000+TONNES SPENT COFFEE GROUNDS GENERATED IN AUSTRALIA EVERY YEAR.
USD 500 billionGLOBAL ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY FROM MOVING TEXTILES TO A CIRCULAR MODEL.
23%SHARE OF THE GLOBAL FASHION MARKET CIRCULAR BUSINESS MODELS LIKE RESALE, RENTAL AND REPAIR COULD REPRESENT BY 2030

Every product tells a material story.
Let's build the future of the coffee-based design

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