Recycled Coffee Grounds Woven Into S.Cafe Fashion Line

Most of us already know that some viable recycling options for using spent grounds include incorporating them into our gardens and applying them as an exfoliating facial or body scrub, but it seems hard to imagine that they can be woven into a lightweight fabric...one that's not stuck in COFFEE COLORED purgatory!

Somehow though, SINGTEX has figured out the magical secret of how to convert normal coffee grounds into their S.Cafe yarn, which is then used to create a wide range of knitted, woven and softshell fabrics in a surprising array of nice, easy on the eyes colors.

Naturally, they're collecting waste grounds from Starbucks and they claim that the grounds from just one cup of java are sufficient enough to create adequate fiber to weave a few t-shirts.

I'm dying to know how they figured it out -- coffee grounds into clothing seems as preposterous as, um, well....plastic bottles into clothing.  Okay, so maybe it's not so wacky after all.

It's a bit of a proprietary secret, though, and with good reason -- if this gets out, new green clothing upstarts would likely storm all of the global Starbucks locations and create insane riots for freebie grinds!!

Apparently, the process is much like that required to transform bamboo into a viscose-like material, and its interesting to note that the coffee yarn ends up being soft, light, flexible and breathable.

SINGTEX's S.Cafe line is impregnated with coconut-derived 'activated' carbon, which renders their fabric UV-resistant and helps the wearer to stay cool, odor free and dry thanks to its innate water wicking properties. 

Interesting stuff, wouldn't you agree? Has anyone here ever worn a piece in their S.Cafe line, and if so, would you please give us feedback?