Coffee Pulp Regrown Forest

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Researchers dumped tons of coffee waste into a forest. This is what it looks like now.

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Researchers from ETH-Zurich and the University of Hawaii spread 30 dump trucks worth of coffee pulp over a degraded area of degraded land in Costa Rica .

In just two years , the area treated with coffee pulp had an 80% canopy cover, compared to just 20% of the control area.

Researchers believe that coffee treatments can be a cost-effective way to reforest degraded land.

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