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Nike uses coffee inspiration to make sneakers! What are the coffee grounds recycling companies?

Published: 2025-12-24 Author: World Gafei

Last Updated: 2025/12/24, Recently, Nike Air Force, a sports shoe brand owned by the world's well-known sports brand Nike, has designed a shoe with coffee elements. It is understood that the brown shoes of NIKE are inspired by coffee. Nike New year launched coffee-themed sneakers called CoffeeAF1. The new AF1 Coffee uses a coffee theme from color matching to details, and the upper uses light brown suede leather.

Recently, Nike Air Force, a sports shoe brand owned by Nike, a world-renowned sports brand, designed a shoe with a "coffee" element.

It is understood that Nike this pair of brown shoes inspired by coffee.

Nike's new coffee-themed sneaker is called "Coffee" AF1, and the new AF1 "Coffee" is coffee-themed from color to detail, with a light brown suede and denim upper, a dark brown Swoosh, a brown midsole with black particles like coffee grounds, and finally a cartoon cat sitting in a coffee cup on the insole.

According to multiple media reports, the Air Force 1 "Coffee" is centered on Nike's iconic Daybreak outline and released with coffee as the center.

Anta, another sports shoe brand, also used coffee grounds to produce "environmentally friendly" shoes and clothing.

On March 27, 2020, Anta recycled coffee grounds to produce "environmentally-friendly theme" shoes and clothing, Anta developed an environmentally-friendly coffee yarn series by recycling 100 tons of coffee grounds, recycling coffee grounds into polyester fiber drawing, and realizing waste recycling.

In November 2020, a Japanese brand launched coffee grounds cold-proof coat. The fiber of the coat is mixed with the residue equivalent to 40 cups of coffee, which not only realizes waste recycling, but also has the function of eliminating odor, because this "environmental protection" coat is universal in all seasons, male and female, plus it is made of coffee grounds, which is very popular in the market. In addition, in order to solve the "environmental problems caused by discarded clothing", clothing brands have launched new down jackets made of recycled down.

In December 2019, Ford Motor Company of the United States also tried to recycle McDonald's coffee grounds to make automobile parts. Because coffee husks can be converted into durable materials to strengthen certain vehicle parts, by heating coffee husks to high temperatures under low oxygen, mixing them with plastics and shouhuagning other additives, and then making them into particles, such as headlight shells or other parts, the use of coffee grounds extracted from coffee waste also makes Ford cars "greener."

In Britain, Bio-Bean also turns thousands of tons of coffee grounds into biofuel. Bio-bean extracts coffee oil from coffee grounds and combines it with animal and vegetable fuel oils to create blended fuel oil.

In addition, after years of research and development, the staff in Daejeon City, South Korea, have realized the rapid thermal decomposition technology of coffee oil extracted from coffee grounds, and Korean garment manufacturers have also used coffee carbon fiber processed from coffee grounds to make jeans fabrics.

At present, coffee grounds can also be used to grow crops, make children's toys and so on.

Coffee, as one of the world's three major beverages, can be said to be quite common in people's daily lives, and coffee grounds are the same, industry sources say: coffee grounds are expected to become a new generation of environmentally friendly renewable energy with better economic benefits in the future.

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