KafEco КафЕко

KafEco is a student company established at the end of 2020 by four high school students in Ruse, Bulgaria. Their idea was to develop an alternative eco-friendly heating substance from waste material, namely by producing a briquette from coffee grounds and sawdust (a residual product obtained from processing clean wood). The coffee grounds are collected from places where coffee is consumed: from households and small neighbourhood restaurants to large fast-food chains. The sawdust is collected from local carpenters in Ruse. KafEco has already reached its prototype phase, with testing results showing that its briquettes are more calorific than wood (radiate more heat) and burn almost twice as fast, releasing less harmful emissions into the air compared to other solid fuels (mainly wood and coal). The sale of the briquettes is expected to start in a year after all the testing and certification are finished successfully. The main aim of KafEco is to make consumers change their mindsets and lifestyles to more sustainable and environmental-friendly ones by starting consuming eco materials for heating.