Use those old coffee grounds. Don't just trash them.

Deodorize Your Fridge/Freezer

Something in the fridge gone bad? Once you throw out the offending item, fill a bowl with dried coffee grounds and place in your refrigerator. In a few days, the spoiled smell will be gone, replaced with a pleasant coffee aroma. This also works in your freezer when you need to remove those food odors that are making your ice cubes taste funny.

And Your Car!

Coffee is so fragrant that you can use old coffee grounds wherever you have an odor problem. Try it out in the car, especially if you have kids, pets, or are the designated carpool driver. First, dry out the grounds on a baking sheet. Then fill an old dress sock or nylon stocking with the grounds and tie it off the end. Instant air freshener!

Clean Pots and Pans

While we wouldn't recommend dumping old coffee grounds down your drain, you can use them to clean pots and pans. Just sprinkle some grounds on the caked-on, baked-on mess and scrub thoroughly. It works great on cast iron, too.

Clean Your Hands

The next time you're cutting onions, garlic, or cooking fish, rub some coffee grounds between your hands. They're help to eliminate the strong smell. Coffee also makes for a great exfoliant—just follow up with soap to kill germs.

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Weather /climate change and your coffee

Weather unpredictability/climate change is a leading factor in future coffee prices. Making the small coffee grower looking to expand their land used to cultivate coffee. Felling of rain forests will accelerate current trends in a changing climate. adding even more unpredictability to coffee supplies and future prices. With the current world price at 90 cents a pound is making profitability in many countries nearly impossible With production cost at about $1.50 per pound. The shortest answer is to grow more coffee witch takes more land, ,fewer trees, more c02, additional climate effects . Climate change and general weather unpredictability are one of the driving forces in the roller coaster ride coffee prices are having and will likely continue to have in the foreseeable future. Perhaps second only to the never ending political unrest in many coffee growing regions.

Used coffee grounds can help stop global warming.

With the environment in the news lately. Here is one you didn't see coming. Used coffee grounds are very good at storing Methane. Methane is a global warming gas many times more potent that carbon dioxide.With Methane having one advantage over Carbon Dioxide. That is Methane can be used as a fuel. The process to make this work is relative simple with the moist used coffee grounds being heated with potassium hydroxide. So who cares you may be asking yourself. While It's not likely your local power company will be digging around in your trash ben for your used coffee grounds in order to capture and store their Methane emissions. Some smaller producers of Methane emissions may have some interest. Many oil wells also produce small amounts of natural gas. The volume of gas is so small that it's uneconomical to lay the needed pipe in order to place this gas into the natural gas lines that heat your home. So this g...

Meat and climate change. One side of the story.

What do you think? This is one side of the story. Meat production is a major contributor to climate change. It is estimated that livestock production accounts for 70 per cent of all agricultural land use and occupies 30 per cent of the land surface of the planet. Because of their sheer numbers, livestock produce a considerable volume of greenhouse gases (such as methane and nitrous oxide) that contribute to climate change. In fact, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has estimated that livestock production is responsible for 18% of greenhouse gases. The growing of livestock and other animals for food is also an extremely inefficient process. For example, it takes approximately five to seven kilograms of grain to produce one kilogram of beef. Each of those kilograms of grain takes considerable energy and water to produce, process, and transport. As meat consumption has grown around the world, so has its climate impact.

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