A little knowledge of environmental protection and diet: growing mushrooms with coffee grounds

In a week, you can not only harvest three crops of "organic, green and natural" edible fungi, but also "do environmental protection at will". A few days ago, more than 1000 households in Tangqiao Street received a special gift from Xingeng Workshop, a public welfare organization, a bacterial stick made of coffee grounds. The reporter learned from the Pudong New area that after the pilot project in Tangqiao, this creative environmental protection volunteer action is expected to be further promoted.

"for every 350 ml cup of freshly ground coffee, 20 grams of coffee grounds are discarded. If a person drinks a medium cup of coffee a week, a thousand people will make about a meal of coffee grounds a year! Throwing, filling or burning coffee grounds with other rubbish not only increases the cost of garbage disposal, but also aggravates Greenhouse Effect of the Earth. The staff of Xingeng Workshop said that coffee grounds are also very rich in nutrients and can be called natural organic fertilizer. To this end, Xingeng Workshop spent a year exploring the recycling of coffee grounds, hoping to reduce the amount of municipal waste.

At the Tangqiao Social Organization Service Center, staff are telling residents how to grow mushrooms at home. The surface of the "household mushroom bag" is wrapped in Kraft paper, and the white hyphae can be seen faintly inside. "these powders are the medium for mushrooms. As long as a moderate spray of water every day, mushrooms will be produced in a week or so, each pack can be harvested 2-3 times, about one jin of Pleurotus ostreatus can be harvested. "introduction to Zhu Pingzhao, CEO of Xingeng Workshop.

Coffee chain enterprises provide free raw materials, communities support recycling, Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences mushroom research institute experts carefully experiment, the future is expected to choose hericium Erinaceus, flower mushroom and other market high-priced mushroom species for cultivation. "Coffee Mushroom" is not only a green project, but also a creative entrepreneurial project. As a non-governmental public welfare organization committed to poverty alleviation, this activity not only "turns waste into treasure", but also provides re-employment opportunities for some people with disabilities and low-income people in society. During the Spring Festival, the green cycle car of Xingeng Workshop also distributed mushroom bags in various neighborhoods on Tangqiao Street and taught residents about environmental protection and diet.