Show brazils surplus coffee used for new plastics brazil will endeavor to dispose of some of its huge surplus coffee production by converting coffee into plastics in a new plant which is nearing completion within a month the plant will be turning out a molding power from which it will be possible to make a wide range of plastic objects including telephones cigarette holders cups automobile parts and rulers the plant will have a capacity of bags of coffee a year and may be expanded to consume bags annually this would considerably sider ably reduce the destruction of coffee beans in brazil which has exceeded bags in a single year because of the low price of this surplus coffee the new plastics will be among the cheapest to produce another factor contributing to its low price is the fact that the coffee beans not only contain the necessary filler but also the resin which is needed to make the plastics |