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(Archive) ReBrew

a second life for your Daily cup of Coffee

This project was part of DDW 2025

I’m Camilla, designer and barista. I give coffee waste a second life as home compostable coffee leather and inspiration to reuse your coffee at home, from garden fertilizer to air fresheners. ReBrew shows how our daily cup can become something new.

Daily Ritual

ReBrew begins with a simple question: what happens to the waste of our daily cup of coffee? While furniture often finds a new owner, other forms of waste are discarded without a second thought. ReBrew transforms coffee grounds into a fully home compostable material, offering not only wallets but a vision of how design can embrace what we already have.

Second Life

Made from coffee grounds, wool, and algae, ReBrew creates a biodegradable material free of plastics and greenwashing promises. Once finished with it, simply return it to the soil, where it naturally decomposes within one year. From wallets to air fresheners, fire starters, or even gardening uses, every bean proves there is potential beyond your daily cup of coffee.

New Beginnings

ReBrew is more than material innovation; it is an invitation to imagine waste differently. By showing how something as ordinary as coffee can return as something beautiful and useful, ReBrew reminds us that this is only the beginning, a starting point for a world where design grows from what we leave behind.