ABSTRACT
Re-worked was set up in 2005 by Adam Fairweather as a non-profit business investing in green and social enterprise. This approach originated from Fairweather’s research at the University of Brighton in 2003–4, where his lead project considered waste streams from within the coffee industry that could be recycled within a circular economic model. By 2004 Fairweather had developed a biodegradable polymer material made from waste coffee grounds. After trials running a coffee collection service in central London, Re-worked started a new collaboration and partnership with a coffee supply company called Redcup. Re-worked also developed a soil conditioner made from coffee grounds that could be sold back within its customers’ establishments. Google had its coffee collected and made into furniture for its own self-service café in its London headquarters, and Sanremo included a variation of the Çurface material as panels on its green espresso machine ‘Verde’.
