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Cafes serve coffee every morning, but where do all the used coffee grounds go?

Cafes normally pay to get their coffee waste dumped.

However, in London, a company called UpCircle, started by the Brightman siblings, is turning this waste into beauty products.

Every day, UpCircle makes a collection of about 100 kilogrammes of coffee grounds, by bike, in London.

This is transported to their factory and added to other products like olives and tea leaves.

This is excellent for the environment.

UpCircle's founder, Anna Brightman, would like for other companies to start thinking of zero waste as well.

Barbara Scott-Atkinson develops the beauty products for UpCircle.

She thinks used coffee grounds are ideal.

Other companies like florists and juice producers, which produce natural waste, have become interested in UpCircle's business.

They send their waste flowers and water from fruit to UpCircle.

Designers are also doing the same as UpCircle, looking for ways to recycle all-natural waste material.

Gemma Curtin managed the Waste Age exhibition at The Design Museum in London.

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