While it’s popular cousin the soybean may hog most of the spotlight, the multi-purposefulness of the coffee ground is nothing to scoff at. In addition to providing us with a refreshing beverage, and occasionally biofuel, a company in Taiwan has recently turned our caffeinated friend into a “super high-tech eco fabric.” The process, which was created by Singtex Industrial Co. and took three years to perfect, is boasted to produce two shirts from the amount of coffee grounds needed to make “one medium cup of coffee”. The fabric is also rumored to be “quick-drying, odor controlling,  and uv-protective.”
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