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Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 9, 2019, at 11:27 AM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > BUSINESSFord to make car parts out of McDonald's coffee bean skins > > Published: Monday, December 9, 2019 > [image: Ian Olson and Debbie Mielewski admire headlamp housing. Photo > credit: Ford Motor Co.] > > Ian Olson, senior director of global sustainability at McDonald's, and > Debbie Mielewski, a sustainability research official at Ford Motor Co., > admire a headlamp housing created using coffee chaff. Ford Motor Co. > > Ford Motor Co. is teaming up with McDonald's Corp. to convert a byproduct > of roasted coffee beans into car parts. > > Coffee chaff, which is the dried skin of coffee beans, falls off during the > roasting process. Ford will start using some of the millions of pounds of > it that McDonald's produces each year to create car parts such as headlight > housing, the automaker said. > > The process involves heating coffee chaff and mixing it with plastic and > other additives to make pellets. Ford will mold those pellets into > lightweight parts to use in car interiors and under the hood. > > Ford currently uses a talc material to make the plastic composite. Talc is > an unrenewable mineral, making coffee chaff a more sustainable option. > > Swapping talc with coffee chaff will result in 20% more lightweight car > parts and use up to 25% less energy during the molding process, according > to Ford. > > "This is an example of jump starting the closed-loop economy, where > different industries work together and exchange materials that otherwise > would be side or waste products," said Debbie Mielewski, Ford's technical > leader of sustainability materials, in a news release. > > Ian Olson, McDonald's director of sustainability, said the fast-food > company will supply 76,000 pounds of coffee chaff for the first phase of > the project. > > "It's just the tip of the iceberg. The potential is unlimited," Olson said > in a commercial > <https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=226&v=pEwWgnJl6m4&feature=emb_logo> > styled after Jerry Seinfeld's "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" > television show. > > The coffee chaff project is part of Ford's goal to use recycled and > renewable plastics in its vehicles. The company has found a number of ways > to use agricultural byproducts in its supply chain since it started using > soybean-based foam in seats in 2007. It also uses tomato skins for wiring > brackets and bamboo in plastic composite parts. > > By 2025, McDonald's aims to use only recycled, renewable and other > responsibly sourced materials in its packaging. > > "Totally different industries, coming together to find a more sustainable > solution," Olson said in the commercial. "We've got to do more of this > stuff." > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
