Funghi Espresso is an Italian startup that grows mushrooms using coffee grounds collected from local bars in Florence. They produce fresh mushrooms and mushroom cultivation kits for home use in a sustainable way that reuses a byproduct. Funghi Espresso encourages urban farming and a circular economy by locating production near cities to reuse coffee ground waste and provide locally grown, nutritious food.
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Funghi Espresso is an innovative startup, which produces
fresh mushrooms in a sustainable and natural way, using the
coffee grounds from the bars in Florence as a substrate for
the cultivation.
In addition to the production of fresh mushrooms, Funghi
Espresso is specialized in the production of substrate ready
for mushroom cultivation (kit for home production).
3. Funghi Espresso is a project in collaboration with Centro di
Ricerca Rifiuti Zero of Capannori (LU) municipality.
Start in 2014, when Rossano Ercolini (President of Zero Waste
Italy association and Goldman Environmental Prize 2013) opens
the case study ”reuse of coffee grounds in agriculture",
presented in the showroom “The taste of a sustainable coffee”.
6. The model is inspired by the Funghi Espresso is Blue
Economy theory (developed by the economist Gunter Pauli),
where the waste of a production cycle is reused in other
production cycles, in an “waterfall” effect. The production
systems therefore are not seen in a distinct and separate from
each other, but in an integrated way, where the waste from a
production cycle may be recovered or recycled in another
production cycle to generate new energy, new wealth and new
work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flMvwi6jR8o
7. Funghi Espresso, encourages reuse and introducing the concept of "Urban Farming",
where agricultural production is located near the city, in order to reuse the waste that it
produces (coffee grounds ) and give the city the same food with high nutritional value,
such as mushrooms.
Funghi Espresso is a system where there are no waste but resources.
9. 7 gr of coffee for one espresso
15 gr of coffe for one american coffee
15 gr of coffee grounds from one espresso coffee
30 gr of coffee grounds from one American coffee
10. FOR MAKE ONE ESPRESSO WE USE JUST THE 0,2% OF COFFEE NUTRIENTS,
THE REST (99,8%) IS THROWN AWAY IN A COFFEE GROUNDS.
15. Every day we collect 70kg
of coffee grounds, in one
month about 1,2 ton
16. Locale fruttificazione funghi
We use coffee ground as growing media, combining it with
the “seed” of the mushroom. All in a completely natural
way, without the use of chemical products. We grow our
mushrooms vertically, suspended on supports, reducing
land use: compared to traditional crops, we use half the
space to grow the same amount of mushrooms. The
bottom of coffee does not need to be pasteurized, with a
considerable saving of energy. And after use return to the
soil as a compost.
27. FATTORI NUTRIZIONALI
serving size 100gr
Energia 77 Kcal / 325 Kj
Proteine 8,17 gr
Fibre 4,5 gr
Grassi 0,18 gr
Acqua 76,1 gr
I funghi della specie Pleurotus
contengono la molecola Lovastatina che
aiuta a ridurre il colesterolo e abbassare
la pressione arteriosa.
28. HUMUS DI LOMBRICO
Dagli scarti di
lavorazione, si realizza
ottimo humus di
lombrico da riutilizzare
in agricoltura e nel
giardinaggio.
29. “Per fare un fungo... ci vuole
un caffè!”
Workshop di due ore
VIDEO YOUTUBE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLDLh8utYB4
30. Training di formazione di due giorni per scoprire i segreti della
coltivazione dei funghi sul fondo di caffè.
31. FUNGHI ESPRESSO PRIZE
IUF (Incubatore Universitario Fiorentino) come miglior progetto di qualità all’interno
di Impresa Campus UNIFI;
LA REGIONE TOSCANA migliore buona pratica in Toscana, nell’ambito del
concorso di idee, “Call for ideas Toscana” in relazione al tema Expo 2015;
DAL MIPAAF (Ministero delle Politiche Agricole Alimentari e Forestali), tra le 25
startup agricole più innovative in Italia.
Centro di Ricerca Rifiuti Zero del comune di Capannori, Tour delle buone pratiche
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