<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><ns2:project xmlns:ns1="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api" xmlns:ns2="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/project" xmlns:ns3="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/fund" xmlns:ns4="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/person" xmlns:ns5="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/project/outcome" xmlns:ns6="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/organisation" ns1:created="2026-07-08T08:44:08Z" ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/projects/603E1866-D3DE-4C21-9F0D-9024958BBA3C" ns1:id="603E1866-D3DE-4C21-9F0D-9024958BBA3C"><ns1:links><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/persons/B16BE1DE-1515-4676-813F-97FDBBE6B620" ns1:rel="PM_PER"/><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/organisations/60AEBF9C-2FEA-4BAC-98A3-491A42E4294F" ns1:rel="LEAD_ORG"/><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/organisations/DAE1EA70-4DA5-406B-9146-1716FCC37EF6" ns1:rel="PARTICIPANT_ORG"/><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/organisations/6A67246B-003B-41A5-8A18-46F42C6C8FDC" ns1:rel="PARTICIPANT_ORG"/><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/organisations/8068093E-2560-49EC-B10A-2D5B241743B9" ns1:rel="PARTICIPANT_ORG"/><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/organisations/60AEBF9C-2FEA-4BAC-98A3-491A42E4294F" ns1:rel="PARTICIPANT_ORG"/><ns1:link ns1:end="2013-10-31T00:00:00Z" ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/funds/1E4EE94E-F853-4474-A7EA-288788E27704" ns1:rel="FUND" ns1:start="2013-06-30T23:00:00Z"/></ns1:links><ns2:identifiers><ns2:identifier ns2:type="RCUK">131392</ns2:identifier></ns2:identifiers><ns2:title>Coffee Board: Designing an energy-light closed loop system for waste coffee and plastics</ns2:title><ns2:status>Closed</ns2:status><ns2:grantCategory>Feasibility Studies</ns2:grantCategory><ns2:leadFunder>Innovate UK</ns2:leadFunder><ns2:abstractText>Re-worked is a not-for-profit company that sets out to reduce the amount of post-consumer coffee and plastic waste that gets sent to landfill and offer a closed loop coffee recycling service to business. The funding will be used to redesign and commercialise a product called &amp;Ccedil;urface that is a composite of waste coffee grounds and plastics. There is high demand from businesses to use &amp;Ccedil;urface as a construction material, however the processing costs are currently too high. Initial research suggests that a new processing design and technique could reduce the energy intensity, amount of materials and manual labour required in manufacture, making &amp;Ccedil;urface more commercially viable for its target customers. The feasibility study will conduct further investigations into this new processing technique, create prototypes and trial a closed loop coffee recycling service collecting coffee waste and then fitting the newly designed &amp;Ccedil;urface in a London-based coffee shop.</ns2:abstractText></ns2:project>