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The Circ​ular Life of Coffee Grounds and Plastic Bottles

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UNSDG Goals

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How Used Coffee Ground Products Achieve SDG Goals

The UNSDG goals focus on environmental sustainability, which directly connects to the central value of circular economy. Continue to adhere to the promotion of product green design and development, green manufacturing, and green supply chain. Facing the effect of global warming, the world must actively take relevant countermeasures to prevent further harming the earth. The SDGs stresses the ideas of sustainable cities and communities, affordable and clean energy, etc. Coffee ground recycling is a way of reusing waste to produce functional items. Instead of using petrochemicals, fossil fuels, etc., society turns to resources that achieve sustainability and functions, coffee grounds are a popular choice. Coffee grounds are often directly put to waste, despite their many functions. Reusing them not only reduces the waste, but also provides a sustainable purpose, giving coffee grounds a “second life”, meeting the values of UNSDG. 

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How Recycled Plastic Bottle Products Achieve SDG Goals

Plastic bottle-made products achieve several SDG goals. For example, plastic bottles achieved SDG goal number 8, decent work and economic growth, and plastic bottles can be reused instead of thrown away. This form of reusing reduces waste and contributes to economic growth as more people are aware of environmental protection, which further leads to purchasing environmentally friendly products. The circular economy helps economic growth through the decoupling of expenditure on raw materials. Also, the use of plastic bottle products achieves the SDG goal of the industry, innovation, and infrastructure, new products and production ways in recent years provide the world with new innovations and technology. Daily, we see waste on water that harms the environment and also the sea animals, using a circular economy on plastic bottles can decrease the number of plastic bottles that pollute water, which achieves SDG goal number 14 life below water, protecting the underwater environment.