[wonderful] Coffee loves mushrooms

In a rectangular cardboard box, five or six white mushrooms with "Phnom Penh" spread out gradually, adding a natural and lovely to the tense office area.

Coffee grounds, once regarded as rubbish, are now the darling of white-collar workers in Shanghai-recycled coffee grounds are processed into special bacterial sticks that can grow mushrooms on their desks. The bacterial stick combines the concepts of environmental protection and safe food, and has a nice and fashionable English name: MuMu CoCo.

This small bacterial stick was born in a Shanghai public welfare organization called Xingeng Workshop, bringing together well-known foreign-funded enterprises KPMG, Cummins, Flavor Catering Co., Ltd., as well as WWF. To complete its birth, processing, circulation and growth. Hangzhou Daily

MuMu CoCo is on sale at the Taobao store of Xingeng Workshop at 48 yuan per box. A box of MuMu CoCo can produce two crops of mushrooms, about one jin each. In other words, for 48 yuan, you can finally harvest 2 jin of organic mushrooms, 24 yuan per jin.

Is the price on the high side?

Search for bacteria on Taobao, whether it is Pleurotus eryngii, Flammulina velutipes or hericium Erinaceus, all kinds of bacteria are only 10 to 20 yuan.

I think what is more valuable than the real thing is its creativity and environmental protection concept.

A 150ml cup of freshly ground coffee requires 10g coffee powder, which means that after brewing, the 10g coffee powder becomes coffee grounds, and more than 90% of people will choose to discard it directly. In fact, coffee grounds have many uses, but for busy modern people, no one has the time and mind to study them slowly. How to come up with convenient and interesting forms of operation to attract people to participate in waste reuse activities is far more practical than shouting environmental protection slogans.

Growing mushrooms with coffee grounds is of course a convenient and interesting form. The bacterial stick box provided by Xingeng is simple and beautiful in shape and can be placed casually in the rest area of the office (more natural and vivid than fake flowers), home, school and other places. This stick is also quite easy to use, as long as it is watered every day, because it is packed in a box and will not get dirty. Put in the office, such hard-growing small plants will make people feel refreshed; at home, they can be planted with children as parent-child activities; in schools, such as kindergartens and primary schools, not only can stimulate children's curiosity, but also through hands-on practice to let the concept of environmental protection go deep into childlike innocence.

Again, garbage in the right place is a resource. To be kind to the things around you, the peace and treasure that comes naturally from the heart is also a kind of self-spiritual cultivation.

Of course, I prefer to reduce the cost of environmental protection, such as promoting mushroom cultivation and directly buying your favorite bacteria from coffee grounds collected at home or in the office.

At present, one of our main business is office coffee. Maybe the next step is to encourage our customers to collect coffee grounds, then give them to Xingeng and give them back with MuMu CoCo sticks.

We hope to get along with the world more healthily and actively.

MuMu CoCo physical object

(responsible Editor: vinden)