Shoe company makes trendy kicks out of used coffee grounds

Shoe company makes trendy kicks out of used coffee grounds

2025-10-27

Taiwan consumes around 2.85 billion cups of coffee every year, meaning there’s a large amount of used coffee grounds. These coffee grounds will produce large amounts of greenhouse gases if left to compost on their own. A shoe company has smelled a green business opportunity in these coffee grounds, turning them into colorful footwear that can be recycled again and again.

A cabinet of trendy shoes in various colors on display. Not your average kicks, these shoes are made of used coffee grounds.

Wilson Hsu
Shoe company CEO
This pair of boots—they’re waterproof rainboots—they’re made out of 15 to 20 cups of used coffee grounds. If a trillion cups of coffee are consumed a year, that produces around 40 billion kilograms of coffee grounds. These coffee grounds produce large amounts of methane and carbon dioxide. In fact these two gases are the two largest greenhouse gases.

High-performance and low-cost materials are usually products of the petrochemical industry. This shoe company instead strives to make their products out of recycled materials. In addition to used coffee grounds, the company also recycles PET bottles, as
well as by-products of the agriculture and semiconductor industries.

Wilson Hsu
Shoe company CEO
Once a customer pays a certain fee, we will be completely responsible for their product. We’ll provide them with new shoes, and once those get worn out, we’ll recycle them, turn them into a new pair that’s given back to the customer.

The company truly practices circular economy by reusing waste materials again and again, making it a model business under the Ministry of Environment’s Resource Circulation Promotion Act. The ministry is actively promoting sustainable local brands, taking the lead in waste reduction and encouraging green innovations, taking Taiwan closer toward its goal of net-zero emissions by 2050.

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台灣一年喝掉28.5億杯 "咖啡渣變鞋子"低成本.高性能

2025-10-27

台灣一年消耗超過28.5億杯咖啡，產生大量的咖啡渣，更產生大量溫室氣體，就有企業為了推動循環經濟與減碳轉型，創意走出新路，把每天被丟棄的咖啡渣變成鞋子。環境部現在推動資源循環推動法，就是希望從制度面著手，引導產業一步步落實循環經濟。

滿牆鞋子，顏色豐富充滿設計感，不說你絕對不知道，製作鞋子的原料，是咖啡渣。

[[製鞋設計公司執行長許佳鳴]]
“它這一雙靴子，防水的雨靴，大概是15到20杯的咖啡渣，一年喝掉1兆杯的咖啡，產生可能400億公斤的咖啡渣，這些咖啡渣會產生大量的甲烷跟二氧化碳，事實上這兩個氣體，就是我們最大的兩個溫室氣體”

商品追求的高性能、低成本材料，大多都靠石化工業來生產，民間企業希望能改變這件事，用廢棄物去取代石化材料，不止咖啡渣，還有寶特瓶，農產及半導體的廢棄物，在他手裡，都能回收循環再利用。

[[製鞋設計公司執行長許佳鳴]]
“繳一定的費用之後，我們可以完全負責，我們給他新鞋子，穿壞之後我們可以收回來，再變成下一雙新鞋子再還給他”

讓回收的材料不只用一次，而是能不斷循環、持續再生，環境部更有資源循環推動法，要打造綠色台灣品牌，更要加強源頭減量與制度創新，加速台灣邁向淨零與資源永續。

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