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You know BI, the least you can do is link this business in the description. The country is at war, and they could use meaningful promotion, not just giving you material to monetize. * They added a link after this comment started something resembling a dumpster fire meets flame war.
For anyone wondering, Ochis is the name of the brand. They are pricey, but there is a reason for that. Durability, the time used to make them, etc. These guys deserve some support.
Nah. They just literally sell garbage through marketing. It's just harmless coffee grinds set in epoxy resin. They need to make frames really beefy, so they just don't fall apart. I bet they would hold less stress than 50 hrivnya glasses from the Ukrainian Izum factory. And for 12 000 hrivnya that's kinda absurd.
@@mryodak I'm surprised they don't just use dirt for filler. It's mostly silica, alumina, and calcium carbonate. Perfectly good filler. And you wouldn't need to use resistance electric ovens to dehydrate it, or a logistics infrastructure to collect it. Just reach down. Powdered concrete from rubble would be a close second. Even sawdust would probably be more scalable. But they might not be using epoxy. They might be using boiled linseed oil with a catalyst to accelerate hardening.
bit pricy? £250 for a pair... thats a quarter of my monthly rent. i was hoping to see around £50 tops,, i know its for a cause,, but this is too much for a recycled product, there is donation charities for those causes. sorry i dont want to be mean but there is a line you have to draw when the product is overpriced, is it worth making it? now if they made cheap cups made from that, and sold them at lets say £1 each mass produced, doesnt have to be superior quality but it would be more better than plastic no? oh but then you have paper cups which do the same thing. so again is it worth producing at such a scale?
Actually, im using the starbucks used coffee grounds that i requested from the barista to be used on my research in producing concrete and replacing the gravel and sand with these coffee grpunds
There is no "coffee grounds waste problem" to be resolved, they are one of the best composting materials. I think the glasses are a great idea, in particular if you like coffee smell ☕️
I think it's less about the coffee grounds being waste (you're right, they're great compost), and more about preventing future waste. If these biodegradable glasses were not available, plastic frames would probably be used.
... its more about using this useful biodegradable product that when lost or disposed of wont turn to plastic waste... its a world wide 'waste' product that could replace plastic 'waste'
@@hannahrobertson31 The video treats coffee grounds as a toxic waste, in the description they even say that "coffee grounds end up in landfills" 😅 The alternative to plastic has always existed, simple wood. Like i said in the comment, i like the idea but the video is dumb.
Wow, this is amazing. Who knew that the US military is currently in Haiti and this week alone they managed to kill over 40 protesters? Of course a few hence it is not being shown in the mainstream media propaganda machines. However, feel good stories such as these are shown and can be praised because it's their way of disseminating propaganda against any country that is against the US hegemony. Gullible people.
my dad is a gardener, and he treats coffee grounds as a treat for the compost worms. he's certainly convinced that it's one of the best things to compost. I think coffee grounds probably contain a good amount of nutrients other than nitrogen (like phosphorous and potassium) that are otherwise lacking in purely plant-based compost, since coffee grounds are made from fruit, and producing fruit is what plants tend to particularly need phosphorous and potassium for. coffee grounds also have the upaide that they're an extremely clean substance to compost to produce compost usable for growing food, ssince the coffee grounds themselves are very food-safe and most likely particularly free of pesticides compares to other parts of many plants (since the coffee beans come from the inside of coffee cherries, so there's little chance of pesticides coating the beans).
Coffee grounds could be used for core material for manufacturing small furniture or appliances. For example, speaker boxes, light switches, switch boards... or anything that is being manufactured with particle boards.
That's true, Used coffee grounds have more potential then just ending up in a waste dump where it ends up polluting the atmosphere but unfortunately not a lot of companys are using coffee grouns..
My first thought was packing material. Polystyrene is the hardest plastic to recycle. You probably turn this stuff into compost or burn it at a powe plant.
@@xier3x biodegradable coffee grounds on the way to dumping field really do not fall into pollutants category. The only advantage of using coffee grounds for manufacturing is availablity of natural material in its relatively pure uncontaminated form.
thanks to everyone for the comments🙏 a lot of effort, nerves and soul were invested in this work. I am glad that I was able to participate in this interview.
I'm not buying the claim that what they're using is some plant oil mixture that magically works like epoxy resin. as a violin maker, I'm quite familiar with natural resins and oils usable for making varnishes and the like, and I'm not aware of anything like that, other than perhaps urushi sap that could possibly harden with moist coffee grounds, but I believe that would take weeks, not less than four days. urushi hardens with moisture, all other natural resin and oil options either polymerize with oxygen or dry by evaporation, or would need to be melted and mixed hot. what they're showing is relatively quick hardening of a cold mix with no air exposure or heating - only two-component resins like epoxy harden like that, and the sturdiness of the result certainly suggests a synthetic resin, too. coffee grounds are excellent for composting, they actually work great for adding nutrients to otherwise leaf- and wood-based garden, park, or plant farm compost, and worms love them. coffee grounds saturated with epoxy on the other hand are effectively particularly toxic microplastic. the subtractive CNC-cut process these people are using produces a lot of waste (much more waste than glasses frames), and whatever that alleged "plant oil mixture" is will certainly make the waste more environmentally problematic than the coffee grounds were to begin with, even if it was just magically epoxy-like natural oil and resin. in short, the environmentalist branding here is truly absurd, it's absolute hipster BS.
Yep people are so gullible, local coffee bean producers are exploited and underpaid and the beans are then flown around the world in carbon producing aircraft so that pretentious hipsters can enjoy their overpriced soy lattes, but hey someone is using a dubious process to bond the grounds into a material to make equally overpriced allegedly green biodegradable hipster glasses so that makes it all good again 👍
It always brings me to tears to see the strength and resolve of the Ukrainian people through the fog of pain they live in. What a beautiful people. Slava Ukraini!
I tip my hat to the innovative and tough spirit of these guys. They could keep making these things while their city is being bombarded by drones. What a cool product. It would be even better if they added a sheen to the frames too.
Way to go, such a good idea to make something beautiful and useful from something as simple as used coffee. The film is also great, about faith, resilience, and creativity.
I use my coffee grounds as nitrogen fertiliser. Just dry them, break them up in a rough powder and spread it on the lawn, in the greenhouse or even potted plants. It takes a few days for the grounds to be absorbed, and all my plants seem to love coffee just as much as I do. 😉
Grounds begin to mold in a few days, it is very risky to use them. Plants DO love coffee, so make them a cup and eat the grounds as they are healthy for digestion.
Ukraine certainly knows how to create or manufacture such useful things. Who would’ve thought to use coffee grounds for sunglasses? I call that resourcefulness.
Wow, this is amazing. Who knew that the US military is currently in Haiti and this week alone they managed to kill over 40 protesters? Of course a few hence it is not being shown in the mainstream media propaganda machines. However, feel good stories such as these are shown and can be praised because it's their way of disseminating propaganda against any country that is against the US hegemony. Gullible people.
They are not the first to make glasses by recycling other materials. But that they create jobs is a good thing in the middle of a war. However They say that they use "secret natural oils" not to mention that they use polymeric resins such as epoxy... The best material for products like these, where you must stick and give it resistance and durability. No oil under pressure will give you these properties... But to say that something is biodegradable and that it has resins is somewhat hypocritical, so better to say "secret oils"... There is a man who makes glasses with recycled denim fabric, But he openly says that he uses epoxy resin as glue. For me it is still an original and recycling product. That epoxy has its environmental drawbacks, yes... But at least it's putting out tons of jeans that do more damage. The Deceptive marketing to appear better to the ignorant "eco-heads" made me lose respect for them... Although there product looks attractive.
@@afrousel4731 Which has other uses than making ugly glasses frames which eventually fall apart. Nevermind the amount of processing and energy that’s used to make those glasses, which is likely considerably higher than the energy and resources used to make glasses out of more conventional materials. Environmentally speaking this is a ridiculously ineffective half-measure that only looks like a good idea to those that don’t know better
I've always hated throwing away my used up coffee grounds and felt like a waste to me and tried to use them somehow like fertilizer I'm glad someone out there found a use for them
You can always use them as fertilizer. You don’t even need plants, you could just dump them in your local dirt\composting bin. They are great for compost!
@@lazycraz6740 That's the thing though. Turns out there are some issues with using it on your own plants. Apparently it makes the soil more acidic which some plants enjoy and others, not so much and you also can't exactly just dump your grounds in it because it keeps water from reaching the plants roots and they die of dehydration. But yea I just dump them locally so they don't go to complete waste.
I think this is a cool idea. I don't necessarily see this waste as being more dire than many other types of waste, as coffee is great compost material. Any reduction in any waste is good, though. I think those glasses are pretty interesting and have good symbolic energy. My one issue is I don't honestly see how they can justify selling these for $300 per pair. Yes, they're hand-polished and whatnot with labor involved, but they don't honestly seem worth that exorbitant amount. I think asking something like maybe $150 per pair is a hell of a lot fairer and would likely draw more buyers in. As it is now, 300 per pair is just insane to me. You're preventing so many from being able to help support your business through purchase by having things at such an increased price. I've looked at tons of items from businesses shown on this channel and they all have seemed fair given the hand-made component of the items and work, but this is the first one that I flat-out feel is just entirely too much. I'm sorry, I know that probably sounds really bad, especially considering the war. It just doesn't feel like a fair price whatsoever to me, personally. Also, way to go BI in not having the decency to even leave the name and business address or website link in the description. Selfish and anannoying. Sometimes, it just feels like you're using these people/business as a content factory so you have more videos to churn out, versus actually helping them get more reach, publicly.
Ochis is the brand. I am appalled that the creators of this video failed to provide a link to this company. Yes they are just showing the facts and not a shameless plug, but living in the United States I see this I want a pair I want to tell my friends so they can buy as well
@Lane AWD The glasses you bought it likely cost less than $20 to make and distribute. The reason they cost $500 is that they are sold by the eyeglass monopoly Luxottica.
Really great to see how smart entrepreneurs can reuse daily waste streams for the production of new products. Who would have thought you could make new sunglasses from coffee grounds. Amazing! 🕶🙌🏼
That's incredible, sometimes peaple forget how lucky we are, these videos remind me that It doesn't matter how hard Times are, Someone in the world lives worse than me...hope than Ukraine gets up stronger than before.
Who’s living worse than you? The military-aged male who’s making overpriced coffee glasses while his countries at war? Yeah, looks super hard to hang around a shop in relative safety collecting garbage and charging strangers money for it.
I lived next to a coofe possessing plant and I can say the smell made me stop drinking coffee for over 4 years after i moved from that cursed place. And I obly lived there foe a year and it totally messed my morning routine up. I was thinking like you when I moved there. I love coffee so the smell won't bother me and how wrong i was
Wow, this is amazing. Who knew that the US military is currently in Haiti and this week alone they managed to kill over 40 protesters? Of course a few hence it is not being shown in the mainstream media propaganda machines. However, feel good stories such as these are shown and can be praised because it's their way of disseminating propaganda against any country that is against the US hegemony. Gullible people.
They have electricity problems, even Clowndensky told ukrains out of the country to not come back due to elelectric problem, how do they manage to make these with low energy?
The point is not that you can find a way to deal with coffee waste but that you can use a biodegradable replacement for something that would have been otherwise made of plastic.
this is amazing. I hope a huge company like Ray-Ban would do a collaboration with them. It would bring recognition but also they would retain ownership of their idea and hard work.
wow wat a gr8 idea 💡 i wunder why big billion dollar company rayban doesn't parter with tiny startup. they will maek infinity munie. you are so smrt. yuo are smart more than fancy rich rayban ceo. good for you.
Luxottica (the company that owns Ray-Ban and literally about 90% of other eye-glass manufactures) would swallow them whole!!! They have been accused of having an actual monopoly on eye-wear.
Coffee grains and "oils"... 👀 Oil is a nice fake synonym for *Epoxy resin*... Oh! Because coffee and "oil" sounds more "eco" and "natural"... Putting Epoxy or resin, takes away all the attractive and credibility to eco friendly and "Biodegradable" stuff... 🤷♂️
@@Bruh-wb3qw Biodegradable resins are as good as you think... First we have to understand 2 things that is to be biodegradable and then that is to be toxic. Something could be biodegradable and toxic at the same time... In this case. If we compare a non-biodegradable plastic that takes 100 to 1000 years to decompose, with a biodegradable one that only takes 10 or 20 years. It is clear that biodegradable sounds better. But in nature nothing takes so many years to decompose... 20 years? You leave a fruit and it doesn't take a week! Still better to last 20 to last 1000 years. Although this does not mean that it will affect negatively for those 20 years... Then there is the toxicity! It can last 10 or 20 years, but still, this releases harmful compounds only makes it into something that breaks down quickly, but not much better for the environment.... This is the case of resins like Epoxy. They may be "biodegradable" (10/20 Years), but are well known to have carcinogens. Eventually they cause problems... But since it only takes 20 years, they make them look perfect in front of the 1000 years of other polymers...
The oil they are talking about is probably a "drying oil" like boiled linseed oil which polymerizes on contact with oxygen. It's what linoleum is made from.
@@raulcid2369 Yeah I figured, still not too bad of a bad lifecycle for a product like glasses. Something is better than nothing yk? Edit: Honestly wood would do a better job in most cases on products like this, its probably just not as cheap as the harmful alternatives.
If coffee grounds glasses with flowers in the frames happens to blow up, I'll have to steer clear of ones that have lavender. I'd rather not be suffocated by my glasses frames. Otherwise, great concept and execution! I hope it does blow up, can be taken globally, and maybe made affordable!
Our dear neighbors it’s always so glad to see everyone is cheerful, wonderful and not afraid to fight back the russians (ziua națională a României! 1 of december) Happy birthday Romania🎉😊 (also hello from romania)
Making eyeGLASSES from coffee grounds might just be the most incredible thing ever. Making glass from coffee is simply extraordinary! This deserves a nobel prize! Oh, you mean the frames... Ah, okay Words matter.
Wonder if the secret ingredient is based on linseed oil. Although the decision to CNC each individual frame is just weird imo. Subtractive manufacturing creates lots of removed material. After mixing with the hardener oil and the pressing, how much discarded material can be reused back into the mix? I reckon an actual die with fine grit sandpaper and shellac could keep waste to a minimum
Wow, this is amazing. Who knew that the US military is currently in Haiti and this week alone they managed to kill over 40 protesters? Of course a few hence it is not being shown in the mainstream media propaganda machines. However, feel good stories such as these are shown and can be praised because it's their way of disseminating propaganda against any country that is against the US hegemony. Gullible people.
@@joeyw7325 Perhaps you're right; sadly, we're inandunted with propaganda on a daily basis, whereas is not even beneficial to the very gullible people who believe it. Well, perhaps for feeling good, of course. A boost of serotonin can flush inflation in a flash ⚡.😂
It’s really awesome that they are giving the grounded coffee and used jeans a new life! But I do wonder that all these brands that made specs out of coffee powder and jeans are selling them at a premium price in the name of reuse and recycle, is it truly in the name of saving the environment or profiteering behind the name of saving environment? You need to pay a premium for specs, diaper, bee waxed clothes and etc. to save the environment. Is it forgotten that 80% of the middle and low income earners in the world may not afford it or it’s out of reach for most? What is the actual impact or contribution to saving our environment? What is the message here that it’s truly sending?
Making customizable biodegradable glasses with coffee grounds is a lot more recyclable and creative way to make something that I wouldn’t have thought of! so gotta give them kudos on that! May not solve the planet but it sure ain’t hindering it! P.s You know cyanide is natural!
This is less of a waste reducing with coffee grounds as it reduces plastic needed. This would be great for shades. Also for other decorative plastic items
Yes, manufacturing eyeglasses made of coffee and resin that has undergone several processes is more environment friendly than turning the waste into compost, good job!
Boiled linseed oil is what is used to make linoleum that can take people walking all over it for 80 years. They are talking about some kind of "drying oil", probably boiled linseed oil, which is literally the boiled oil of the seed of the flax plant.
Wow, this is amazing. Who knew that the US military is currently in Haiti and this week alone they managed to kill over 40 protesters? Of course a few hence it is not being shown in the mainstream media propaganda machines. However, feel good stories such as these are shown and can be praised because it's their way of disseminating propaganda against any country that is against the US hegemony. Gullible people.
And then sell it for $500+ each. I support the idea of recycling materials, but the pricing for these "made from recycled materials" items are just obnoxious it makes no sense. You got the raw material for free because it is basically just trash. So no I don't care what they try to say to justify the pricing. If using recycled material produce a more expensive product, that business plan will be "dead on arrival". Coffee grounds are never a problem to begin with. So what if the ground coffee end up in landfills? You do know that coffee grounds are organic materials that will degrade naturally right? You can even use it as fertilizers to grow more plants. My family have been using them in the garden for years. Seriously people, don't buy the fake ideas of "organic" or "recycled" material bullshit. It is all marketing gimmick. They basically use the environmental fear and concern in people as tools for marketing. Let me give you an example of how fake it is. Way back before 2009, most clothes still uses normal material. Around 2010 onwards many companies uses "organic" cotton for their clothing materials. You know what I found out? Most of these "organic" cotton clothes don't last even 2 years. I have clothes that I bought from before 2010 that I can still use even today. I also have clothes that I bought in the last 2 years that I can't use anymore because it has degraded so badly that either I reuse it for cleaning cloth, or throw it away. So basically now, you have to throw away your clothes after using it for 1-2 years and buy new ones. You are just filling the landfill even more and here is the evil business plan, "forced to buy more" and the evil cycle repeats. Back then if you are not using or your clothes don't fit anymore you can easily donate it to others because the clothes are practically still in a usable conditions. If these people seriously want to think about the environment, they would produce products that last, so it can be used for years, donated, and recycled as materials to make new products that will also last. And consumers need to reduce consumptions of everything. Here is a proper flow to not only care for the environment, it will also reduce the cost of living and inflations. Reduce consumption of everything/demands > which will reduce the need for mass production > which will reduce the amount of waste and needed material and the price of products > which will give time back to the environment to regrow, reproduce, and stabilize.
You are the only one here that is sane the rest are just gobbling up all the recycling save the world and support ukros propaganda.. Thank you for your post!
This seems like a small, hand made production, so high prices are understandable. Just like with many alternative materials, the more people adopt them the lower the prices will become. It’s hard to compete with mega corporations, because you will never match their output. It also doesn’t help that we are in the age of “consolidation”, where large companies simply buy out their smaller competitors rather than compete, and when there’s no competition there’s no innovation.
To be fair, the "it keeps them out of landfill" is a very low bar to clear. Even just collecting a cities coffee grounds and using them as fertilizer on veggie growing operations in the suburbs would not only achieve that same objective, but also help build soil which is a massive climate achievement. Far better than this energy intensive process, for certain.
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Thanks so much!
You know BI, the least you can do is link this business in the description. The country is at war, and they could use meaningful promotion, not just giving you material to monetize.
* They added a link after this comment started something resembling a dumpster fire meets flame war.
What would you call this entire video if not meaningful promotion lmfao
@@itsv1p3r Content for BI - the brand is not straight forward to find if you don't speak Ukrainian or Russian. A link would not kill them.
Exactly, it's like trying to find a needle in a haystack(with an x-ray machine)
Try to search «ochis» ("ochi" - "eyes" in ukrainian), good luck!
Warmest greetings from Ukraine!
Business insider are bad. They always do the same thing. They get views from showing this business but they won’t show a link to the business.
For anyone wondering, Ochis is the name of the brand. They are pricey, but there is a reason for that. Durability, the time used to make them, etc. These guys deserve some support.
Nah. They just literally sell garbage through marketing. It's just harmless coffee grinds set in epoxy resin. They need to make frames really beefy, so they just don't fall apart. I bet they would hold less stress than 50 hrivnya glasses from the Ukrainian Izum factory. And for 12 000 hrivnya that's kinda absurd.
@@mryodak Exactly. Companies jump on this eco friendly band wagon and make millions selling crap that is unsustainable to produce.
@@mryodak I'm surprised they don't just use dirt for filler. It's mostly silica, alumina, and calcium carbonate. Perfectly good filler. And you wouldn't need to use resistance electric ovens to dehydrate it, or a logistics infrastructure to collect it. Just reach down. Powdered concrete from rubble would be a close second. Even sawdust would probably be more scalable. But they might not be using epoxy. They might be using boiled linseed oil with a catalyst to accelerate hardening.
bit pricy? £250 for a pair... thats a quarter of my monthly rent. i was hoping to see around £50 tops,, i know its for a cause,, but this is too much for a recycled product, there is donation charities for those causes. sorry i dont want to be mean but there is a line you have to draw when the product is overpriced, is it worth making it? now if they made cheap cups made from that, and sold them at lets say £1 each mass produced, doesnt have to be superior quality but it would be more better than plastic no? oh but then you have paper cups which do the same thing. so again is it worth producing at such a scale?
@@mryodak hear hear
Thank you for kind words and beautiful video about our local businesses! It is really valuable for my country.
Вас зовут, как моего отца, странно в комментариях такое увидеть. А видео классное.
I worked for Starbucks and The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf and we would save all the grounds in bags for people to pick up for free to use as fertilizer.
I remember seeing a Table made of Coffee grounds at a Starbucks in Vietnam.
I noticed this. We should take this approach with more things. We would have so very little waste.
There are also shoes made out of coffee
Same. I was wondering why they need them.
Actually, im using the starbucks used coffee grounds that i requested from the barista to be used on my research in producing concrete and replacing the gravel and sand with these coffee grpunds
There is no "coffee grounds waste problem" to be resolved, they are one of the best composting materials. I think the glasses are a great idea, in particular if you like coffee smell ☕️
I think it's less about the coffee grounds being waste (you're right, they're great compost), and more about preventing future waste. If these biodegradable glasses were not available, plastic frames would probably be used.
... its more about using this useful biodegradable product that when lost or disposed of wont turn to plastic waste... its a world wide 'waste' product that could replace plastic 'waste'
@@hannahrobertson31 The video treats coffee grounds as a toxic waste, in the description they even say that "coffee grounds end up in landfills" 😅 The alternative to plastic has always existed, simple wood. Like i said in the comment, i like the idea but the video is dumb.
Wow, this is amazing. Who knew that the US military is currently in Haiti and this week alone they managed to kill over 40 protesters? Of course a few hence it is not being shown in the mainstream media propaganda machines. However, feel good stories such as these are shown and can be praised because it's their way of disseminating propaganda against any country that is against the US hegemony. Gullible people.
my dad is a gardener, and he treats coffee grounds as a treat for the compost worms. he's certainly convinced that it's one of the best things to compost. I think coffee grounds probably contain a good amount of nutrients other than nitrogen (like phosphorous and potassium) that are otherwise lacking in purely plant-based compost, since coffee grounds are made from fruit, and producing fruit is what plants tend to particularly need phosphorous and potassium for. coffee grounds also have the upaide that they're an extremely clean substance to compost to produce compost usable for growing food, ssince the coffee grounds themselves are very food-safe and most likely particularly free of pesticides compares to other parts of many plants (since the coffee beans come from the inside of coffee cherries, so there's little chance of pesticides coating the beans).
Coffee grounds could be used for core material for manufacturing small furniture or appliances. For example, speaker boxes, light switches, switch boards... or anything that is being manufactured with particle boards.
That's true, Used coffee grounds have more potential then just ending up in a waste dump where it ends up polluting the atmosphere but unfortunately not a lot of companys are using coffee grouns..
I feel like it can be used for making biodegradable plates or insulation for use of sneakers soles
My first thought was packing material. Polystyrene is the hardest plastic to recycle. You probably turn this stuff into compost or burn it at a powe plant.
Bugs would have a field day on that furniture. Even if there is a coating, that will eventually go away
@@xier3x biodegradable coffee grounds on the way to dumping field really do not fall into pollutants category. The only advantage of using coffee grounds for manufacturing is availablity of natural material in its relatively pure uncontaminated form.
I'm from Ukraine. And I want to thank you for this video and for calling things as they are!
Go brave Ukrainians, push the invaders out of your country!
@@strangeghostyboy3568 How is it going to be Nazi? Go ask Putin, he knows it 'cause he is making Russia the Nazi by invading other country like Nazi.
thanks to everyone for the comments🙏 a lot of effort, nerves and soul were invested in this work. I am glad that I was able to participate in this interview.
Da faq?
are you the stunningly beautiful girl?
@@Dennan maybe)
Amazing--Ukrainians have been showing the world their inventiveness and positive values in so many ways.
I'm not buying the claim that what they're using is some plant oil mixture that magically works like epoxy resin. as a violin maker, I'm quite familiar with natural resins and oils usable for making varnishes and the like, and I'm not aware of anything like that, other than perhaps urushi sap that could possibly harden with moist coffee grounds, but I believe that would take weeks, not less than four days. urushi hardens with moisture, all other natural resin and oil options either polymerize with oxygen or dry by evaporation, or would need to be melted and mixed hot. what they're showing is relatively quick hardening of a cold mix with no air exposure or heating - only two-component resins like epoxy harden like that, and the sturdiness of the result certainly suggests a synthetic resin, too.
coffee grounds are excellent for composting, they actually work great for adding nutrients to otherwise leaf- and wood-based garden, park, or plant farm compost, and worms love them. coffee grounds saturated with epoxy on the other hand are effectively particularly toxic microplastic. the subtractive CNC-cut process these people are using produces a lot of waste (much more waste than glasses frames), and whatever that alleged "plant oil mixture" is will certainly make the waste more environmentally problematic than the coffee grounds were to begin with, even if it was just magically epoxy-like natural oil and resin.
in short, the environmentalist branding here is truly absurd, it's absolute hipster BS.
Green washing
Bio based epoxies are in fact a thing. So that's probably what they are doing, and they wouldn't be lying.
Yep people are so gullible, local coffee bean producers are exploited and underpaid and the beans are then flown around the world in carbon producing aircraft so that pretentious hipsters can enjoy their overpriced soy lattes, but hey someone is using a dubious process to bond the grounds into a material to make equally overpriced allegedly green biodegradable hipster glasses so that makes it all good again 👍
I was thinking the same thing. I’m also a crafter, and as soon as they said that it was a “trade secret” I shook my head and thought “epoxy”
@@rafflesmaos those aren't made "100% from herbal oils" tho. It is a lie.
It always brings me to tears to see the strength and resolve of the Ukrainian people through the fog of pain they live in. What a beautiful people. Slava Ukraini!
Thank you for support 🇺🇦 ❤️
😅😅😅 you brain dead little sheep
Ukraine was and is the most corrupt country in Europe and probably in the top five in the world
@@lidiia_s always and forever, my friend. Stay safe. ❤️
@@Ohmie literal tears? You actually cry real literal tears? How brave of you 🥲
@@mitch_sorenstein
Lmao. I love it
Bloody brilliant...
Amazing Ukrainians...
🇿🇦🕊🇺🇦❤️🕶
I tip my hat to the innovative and tough spirit of these guys. They could keep making these things while their city is being bombarded by drones. What a cool product. It would be even better if they added a sheen to the frames too.
Way to go, such a good idea to make something beautiful and useful from something as simple as used coffee. The film is also great, about faith, resilience, and creativity.
I use my coffee grounds as nitrogen fertiliser. Just dry them, break them up in a rough powder and spread it on the lawn, in the greenhouse or even potted plants. It takes a few days for the grounds to be absorbed, and all my plants seem to love coffee just as much as I do. 😉
My parents have a little garden and they go to starbucks and ask for some. They dump their coffee grounds in a plastic bag and we pick them up later.
I add then to growing mixture for shrooms
Grounds begin to mold in a few days, it is very risky to use them. Plants DO love coffee, so make them a cup and eat the grounds as they are healthy for digestion.
Ukraine certainly knows how to create or manufacture such useful things. Who would’ve thought to use coffee grounds for sunglasses? I call that resourcefulness.
Wow, this is amazing. Who knew that the US military is currently in Haiti and this week alone they managed to kill over 40 protesters? Of course a few hence it is not being shown in the mainstream media propaganda machines. However, feel good stories such as these are shown and can be praised because it's their way of disseminating propaganda against any country that is against the US hegemony. Gullible people.
They are not the first to make glasses by recycling other materials. But that they create jobs is a good thing in the middle of a war.
However They say that they use "secret natural oils" not to mention that they use polymeric resins such as epoxy... The best material for products like these, where you must stick and give it resistance and durability. No oil under pressure will give you these properties... But to say that something is biodegradable and that it has resins is somewhat hypocritical, so better to say "secret oils"...
There is a man who makes glasses with recycled denim fabric, But he openly says that he uses epoxy resin as glue. For me it is still an original and recycling product. That epoxy has its environmental drawbacks, yes... But at least it's putting out tons of jeans that do more damage.
The Deceptive marketing to appear better to the ignorant "eco-heads" made me lose respect for them... Although there product looks attractive.
I thought the polish were dumb, why would you waste coffee like this
@@chiquita683 They're using used coffee grounds you fool
@@afrousel4731
Which has other uses than making ugly glasses frames which eventually fall apart. Nevermind the amount of processing and energy that’s used to make those glasses, which is likely considerably higher than the energy and resources used to make glasses out of more conventional materials.
Environmentally speaking this is a ridiculously ineffective half-measure that only looks like a good idea to those that don’t know better
Nice idea. Creative people. Glory to Ukraine!
they're literally no different than every other eastern european country what are you smoking
I've always hated throwing away my used up coffee grounds and felt like a waste to me and tried to use them somehow like fertilizer
I'm glad someone out there found a use for them
You can always use them as fertilizer. You don’t even need plants, you could just dump them in your local dirt\composting bin. They are great for compost!
@@lazycraz6740 That's the thing though. Turns out there are some issues with using it on your own plants.
Apparently it makes the soil more acidic which some plants enjoy and others, not so much and you also can't exactly just dump your grounds in it because it keeps water from reaching the plants roots and they die of dehydration.
But yea I just dump them locally so they don't go to complete waste.
Great idea and great execution. I'm so glad you all are able to continue your work despite the turmoil.
Amazing people, existence despite war. I appreciate as a Ukrainian American how resourceful!
Great job Ukraine 🇺🇦 ✌️
I am very impressed with these frames. The sunglasses look really good. Great styles. I want a pair.
I think this is a cool idea. I don't necessarily see this waste as being more dire than many other types of waste, as coffee is great compost material. Any reduction in any waste is good, though. I think those glasses are pretty interesting and have good symbolic energy.
My one issue is I don't honestly see how they can justify selling these for $300 per pair. Yes, they're hand-polished and whatnot with labor involved, but they don't honestly seem worth that exorbitant amount. I think asking something like maybe $150 per pair is a hell of a lot fairer and would likely draw more buyers in. As it is now, 300 per pair is just insane to me. You're preventing so many from being able to help support your business through purchase by having things at such an increased price. I've looked at tons of items from businesses shown on this channel and they all have seemed fair given the hand-made component of the items and work, but this is the first one that I flat-out feel is just entirely too much. I'm sorry, I know that probably sounds really bad, especially considering the war. It just doesn't feel like a fair price whatsoever to me, personally.
Also, way to go BI in not having the decency to even leave the name and business address or website link in the description. Selfish and anannoying. Sometimes, it just feels like you're using these people/business as a content factory so you have more videos to churn out, versus actually helping them get more reach, publicly.
They use CNC to make glass frame. Thats too dubious imo
its about not using plastic dum dum
Scale of production, and time to produce a frame factors into to majority of cost.
Exactly, I went to the website ready to buy but the price 🫣
Those glasses remind me of the kind the US military gave me. We called them “BC glasses”. BC as in birth control 😂
Love this! The Ukrainians are awesome people! I hope more companies would recycle/reuse/repurpose coffee grounds and other waste materials.
Killing 200,000 Jewish people for the Nazi's is awesome?
Never mind that 90% of the worlds military bio labs are in that shit country
You mean Russians? Slava Russia 🇷🇺
@@prevaloir5362 ви настільки нікчемні, що навіть гасло вкрали😂 ваше ж гасло ніби «расия впєрде»
Ukrainians are Unbreakable. And a real modern nation. They deserve all possible help the world can give in this sad period of history.
Damn, I wish I could actually afford the glasses. They look awesome. Very innovative.
Glory to Ukraine.
❤ Ukrainian from India …. My mom have acres of coffee plantation.
Ukraine, miss you 🏡
Stay 💪🏻 strong
Brilliant!. Kudos to this team!. Hope they get sponsored to go global. They deserve it!. 👍
Ochis is the brand. I am appalled that the creators of this video failed to provide a link to this company. Yes they are just showing the facts and not a shameless plug, but living in the United States I see this I want a pair I want to tell my friends so they can buy as well
Thank you!! I like these and I'd buy a pair if it helps this community!!
Well you know the brand? They are $300 a pair, stop lying that you are going to pay that much for sunglasses.
I even tried to post the link, but my comment got deleted.
@Lane AWD The glasses you bought it likely cost less than $20 to make and distribute. The reason they cost $500 is that they are sold by the eyeglass monopoly Luxottica.
@Lane AWD 🤡
The amount of coffee ground this household makes we could be a whole factory supplier
Це так невимовно круто! Кава! Це ж можна все що хочеш робити і дуже екологічно. Просто фантастика!
Really great to see how smart entrepreneurs can reuse daily waste streams for the production of new products. Who would have thought you could make new sunglasses from coffee grounds. Amazing! 🕶🙌🏼
That's incredible, sometimes peaple forget how lucky we are, these videos remind me that It doesn't matter how hard Times are, Someone in the world lives worse than me...hope than Ukraine gets up stronger than before.
Who’s living worse than you? The military-aged male who’s making overpriced coffee glasses while his countries at war?
Yeah, looks super hard to hang around a shop in relative safety collecting garbage and charging strangers money for it.
Absolutely beautiful, the craftsmanship and the people!
Nah just doing what they do best
Begging for westerners $$
@@yaniplanet6448 wtf are you talking about????
@@yaniplanet6448 cry about it+L+ratio
@@yaniplanet6448❤️🇺🇲🖕
@@yaniplanet6448 so true fr
What a great story. I wish this company every success. It must smell amazing in their workshop!
I lived next to a coofe possessing plant and I can say the smell made me stop drinking coffee for over 4 years after i moved from that cursed place. And I obly lived there foe a year and it totally messed my morning routine up. I was thinking like you when I moved there. I love coffee so the smell won't bother me and how wrong i was
Wow 😮 it’s so unique way to make sunglasses 🕶️
Glad to see Ukraine made it 🤘🏻🇺🇦
Wow, this is amazing. Who knew that the US military is currently in Haiti and this week alone they managed to kill over 40 protesters? Of course a few hence it is not being shown in the mainstream media propaganda machines. However, feel good stories such as these are shown and can be praised because it's their way of disseminating propaganda against any country that is against the US hegemony. Gullible people.
Such a great and innovative idea! Hope OCHIS sells lots of them!
I love how they don’t show anyone wearing the glasses
You're supposed to just use them as "decorations"
I'm not a huge fan of how clunky the frames are but the cases and the ideas for making other things using this method seems great.
Are we changing the definition of sustainable now as well?
It's getting expensive in the UK, but I will plan to buy a pair soon. Sustainable and stylish, what excellent work!
Lmao
How to get people to waste their money on garbage in one easy step: Duuuh, chairiddee.
They have electricity problems, even Clowndensky told ukrains out of the country to not come back due to elelectric problem, how do they manage to make these with low energy?
😂😂😂 go crazy little sheep now be a good little citizen and buy two pairs
@@yaniplanet6448 🤡🤡
Coffee bean waste is amazingly compostable and makes great soil I didn't think the grounds ever had a problem finding a way to not end up land waste.
The point is not that you can find a way to deal with coffee waste but that you can use a biodegradable replacement for something that would have been otherwise made of plastic.
That is true but I can bet more than 90% are not being composted.
@@orbitaaltube these frames probably still use epoxy.
@@pewpewTN It said that it was a mix of oils in the video.
@@orbitaaltube gasoline, plastics & Vaseline are also derived from "natural oils".
this is amazing. I hope a huge company like Ray-Ban would do a collaboration with them. It would bring recognition but also they would retain ownership of their idea and hard work.
Unfortunately Ray-ban or some other large manufacturer will probably just steal their idea.
Why would thy need to do a collaboration with rayban just to get recognition they are two different companies with two different customer audiences
wow wat a gr8 idea 💡 i wunder why big billion dollar company rayban doesn't parter with tiny startup. they will maek infinity munie. you are so smrt. yuo are smart more than fancy rich rayban ceo. good for you.
Yes, Ukrainians are like us not like other Eastern Europe or Russia at all.
Luxottica (the company that owns Ray-Ban and literally about 90% of other eye-glass manufactures) would swallow them whole!!! They have been accused of having an actual monopoly on eye-wear.
So proud of Ukrainians doing such wonderful and brave things amidst the war! Слава Україні! 🇺🇦
or marketing plain
Slava Rosiyi 🇷🇺
So glad to see Ukraine doing Eyeglasses made with coffee! Sunglasses count? 🇺🇦💙💛
❤️🇺🇦
Slava Russia
Slava Russia
I am grateful to be able to have the privilege to go to coffee shops in my town without the thought or fear of war. Be kind to each other
Wow 🥺😳😳 coffee ☕ glass & frame with coffee ☕ mug 💐🧠👍
A wonderful story of perseverance and entrepreneurship!
Awesome...love the coffee glasses...reduce reuse...creative,,,unique..
Now my eyes will blink as fast as my heart beat at 138 BPM!
😆😂🤍
Just checked the web site. The collection is really stylish and the pattern in the frames looks great.
Coffee grains and "oils"... 👀 Oil is a nice fake synonym for *Epoxy resin*... Oh! Because coffee and "oil" sounds more "eco" and "natural"... Putting Epoxy or resin, takes away all the attractive and credibility to eco friendly and "Biodegradable" stuff... 🤷♂️
I was thinking the same thing 😂 still a cool gimmick. Biodegradable resins could work too.
@@Bruh-wb3qw Biodegradable resins are as good as you think...
First we have to understand 2 things that is to be biodegradable and then that is to be toxic.
Something could be biodegradable and toxic at the same time... In this case. If we compare a non-biodegradable plastic that takes 100 to 1000 years to decompose, with a biodegradable one that only takes 10 or 20 years.
It is clear that biodegradable sounds better. But in nature nothing takes so many years to decompose... 20 years? You leave a fruit and it doesn't take a week! Still better to last 20 to last 1000 years. Although this does not mean that it will affect negatively for those 20 years...
Then there is the toxicity! It can last 10 or 20 years, but still, this releases harmful compounds only makes it into something that breaks down quickly, but not much better for the environment.... This is the case of resins like Epoxy. They may be "biodegradable" (10/20 Years), but are well known to have carcinogens. Eventually they cause problems... But since it only takes 20 years, they make them look perfect in front of the 1000 years of other polymers...
The oil they are talking about is probably a "drying oil" like boiled linseed oil which polymerizes on contact with oxygen. It's what linoleum is made from.
@@gregorymalchuk272 That's cool to know. I've heard good things about linoleum, only that they stopped using it when it became tacky.
@@raulcid2369 Yeah I figured, still not too bad of a bad lifecycle for a product like glasses. Something is better than nothing yk? Edit: Honestly wood would do a better job in most cases on products like this, its probably just not as cheap as the harmful alternatives.
Cool way to use coffee grounds
If coffee grounds glasses with flowers in the frames happens to blow up, I'll have to steer clear of ones that have lavender. I'd rather not be suffocated by my glasses frames. Otherwise, great concept and execution! I hope it does blow up, can be taken globally, and maybe made affordable!
This is amazing. So much plastic. So this is a great idea
Красавцы украинцы! От души желаю победы, мира и процветания!
🇺🇿👍🇺🇦
So good... May Ukraine win and flourish
If only I had money... I fell in love with the designs. If I ask Santa nice enough, perhaps I could get a pair for Christmas.
You can’t let THEM change how you live your lives! That is the essence of FREEDOM. To do what you feel, when you want and with whom you want!
Slava Ukraini!!!
Very proud of my people making cool shit, even in tough times!!!
those probably aren't even your people and you're just virtue signaling, you sound extremely american
@@redline1916 Звичайно, прочитавши дві звичайні фрази можна визначити що я не Українка... Крінж.
Good luck in your "only Americans are online world"!
@@sof8670 Good luck losing because you guys can only lie about shit and even US military veterans are calling you out lol
An oasis in the polluting world. Hats off. The world must get rid of wars created by politicians and Unite to live in peace. From Tamilnadu India.
It's not really a waste problem. Still, it is a really nice upcycling product.
Our dear neighbors it’s always so glad to see everyone is cheerful, wonderful and not afraid to fight back the russians (ziua națională a României! 1 of december)
Happy birthday Romania🎉😊 (also hello from romania)
Making eyeGLASSES from coffee grounds might just be the most incredible thing ever.
Making glass from coffee is simply extraordinary!
This deserves a nobel prize!
Oh, you mean the frames... Ah, okay
Words matter.
Slava Russia
Kherson ?? Questions?
Great for people already addicted to coffee - it's a *constant* reminder to drink even more coffee 😀
Wonder if the secret ingredient is based on linseed oil. Although the decision to CNC each individual frame is just weird imo. Subtractive manufacturing creates lots of removed material. After mixing with the hardener oil and the pressing, how much discarded material can be reused back into the mix?
I reckon an actual die with fine grit sandpaper and shellac could keep waste to a minimum
Good nice.
Now lets try making brick using this
Simply genius! Long live the beautiful independent Ukraine!
Wow, this is amazing. Who knew that the US military is currently in Haiti and this week alone they managed to kill over 40 protesters? Of course a few hence it is not being shown in the mainstream media propaganda machines. However, feel good stories such as these are shown and can be praised because it's their way of disseminating propaganda against any country that is against the US hegemony. Gullible people.
@@MrEvansjethro Relax man. Take a toke. This isn't the right place for all that mess
@@joeyw7325 Perhaps you're right; sadly, we're inandunted with propaganda on a daily basis, whereas is not even beneficial to the very gullible people who believe it. Well, perhaps for feeling good, of course. A boost of serotonin can flush inflation in a flash ⚡.😂
😅😅😅😅 Ukraine was and never be independent
Yanks will pull an afghan move and the Russians will take back what was theirs in the beginning
@@yaniplanet6448 It is understood that the Ukrainian government officials are purchasing properties in Switzerland. Ukraine is gone for good.
This is a really cool way to recycle grounds! I'm definitely sharing this with my friends.
That's a very uplifting and meaningful job you have going there congratulations on finding something purposeful to do in times of uncertainty**
Wow!!!! Exceptional business......highly impressed!!!!
It’s really awesome that they are giving the grounded coffee and used jeans a new life!
But I do wonder that all these brands that made specs out of coffee powder and jeans are selling them at a premium price in the name of reuse and recycle, is it truly in the name of saving the environment or profiteering behind the name of saving environment?
You need to pay a premium for specs, diaper, bee waxed clothes and etc. to save the environment. Is it forgotten that 80% of the middle and low income earners in the world may not afford it or it’s out of reach for most? What is the actual impact or contribution to saving our environment?
What is the message here that it’s truly sending?
О це так креатив! молодці кияни!!!
Be brave like Ukraine. Never stop. Keep pushing every day
Making customizable biodegradable glasses with coffee grounds is a lot more recyclable and creative way to make something that I wouldn’t have thought of! so gotta give them kudos on that!
May not solve the planet but it sure ain’t hindering it!
P.s You know cyanide is natural!
This is less of a waste reducing with coffee grounds as it reduces plastic needed. This would be great for shades. Also for other decorative plastic items
Yes, manufacturing eyeglasses made of coffee and resin that has undergone several processes is more environment friendly than turning the waste into compost, good job!
Coffee grounds seem like a cool and a novel resource for glass frames like this. And possibly many more goods in the future too.
They use epoxy as a binder. There are no vegetable oils in the world to provide required mechanical strength
same thought here.
Boiled linseed oil is what is used to make linoleum that can take people walking all over it for 80 years. They are talking about some kind of "drying oil", probably boiled linseed oil, which is literally the boiled oil of the seed of the flax plant.
@@gregorymalchuk272 PVC is the binding polymer to walk for 80 years on and oil just makes it flexible 😉
Wow it's a very cool story guys, definitely going to buy a pair in the future! And I'm totally coffee fan too so it's win-win^^
Real creative here look forward to seeing more
great idea of using discarded coffee ground...it could even be used to make a small accessory box or a chess set!
I pray to God that the people of Ukraine soon get liberated
This is amazing! I love coffee and I bet these frames smell so good. ☕🤓💜
Wow, this is amazing. Who knew that the US military is currently in Haiti and this week alone they managed to kill over 40 protesters? Of course a few hence it is not being shown in the mainstream media propaganda machines. However, feel good stories such as these are shown and can be praised because it's their way of disseminating propaganda against any country that is against the US hegemony. Gullible people.
Thanks to Business Insider team for this video
million-dollar investment asap
Велика подяка проекту за висвітлення проблематики бізнесу під час війни в Україні.
And then sell it for $500+ each. I support the idea of recycling materials, but the pricing for these "made from recycled materials" items are just obnoxious it makes no sense. You got the raw material for free because it is basically just trash. So no I don't care what they try to say to justify the pricing. If using recycled material produce a more expensive product, that business plan will be "dead on arrival". Coffee grounds are never a problem to begin with. So what if the ground coffee end up in landfills? You do know that coffee grounds are organic materials that will degrade naturally right? You can even use it as fertilizers to grow more plants. My family have been using them in the garden for years.
Seriously people, don't buy the fake ideas of "organic" or "recycled" material bullshit. It is all marketing gimmick. They basically use the environmental fear and concern in people as tools for marketing. Let me give you an example of how fake it is. Way back before 2009, most clothes still uses normal material. Around 2010 onwards many companies uses "organic" cotton for their clothing materials. You know what I found out? Most of these "organic" cotton clothes don't last even 2 years. I have clothes that I bought from before 2010 that I can still use even today. I also have clothes that I bought in the last 2 years that I can't use anymore because it has degraded so badly that either I reuse it for cleaning cloth, or throw it away. So basically now, you have to throw away your clothes after using it for 1-2 years and buy new ones. You are just filling the landfill even more and here is the evil business plan, "forced to buy more" and the evil cycle repeats. Back then if you are not using or your clothes don't fit anymore you can easily donate it to others because the clothes are practically still in a usable conditions.
If these people seriously want to think about the environment, they would produce products that last, so it can be used for years, donated, and recycled as materials to make new products that will also last. And consumers need to reduce consumptions of everything. Here is a proper flow to not only care for the environment, it will also reduce the cost of living and inflations.
Reduce consumption of everything/demands > which will reduce the need for mass production > which will reduce the amount of waste and needed material and the price of products > which will give time back to the environment to regrow, reproduce, and stabilize.
You are the only one here that is sane the rest are just gobbling up all the recycling save the world and support ukros propaganda..
Thank you for your post!
This seems like a small, hand made production, so high prices are understandable. Just like with many alternative materials, the more people adopt them the lower the prices will become. It’s hard to compete with mega corporations, because you will never match their output. It also doesn’t help that we are in the age of “consolidation”, where large companies simply buy out their smaller competitors rather than compete, and when there’s no competition there’s no innovation.
Best use of used coffee ever!!!
Can you make house material out of this?
@@PerryDaPlatapus we've been making biodegradable houses for thousands of years! What are you talking about? Do you live in a plastic house?
@@PerryDaPlatapus Yes wood is also biodegradable
Why couldn't you treat coffee grounds the same way you do wood?@@PerryDaPlatapus
@@PerryDaPlatapus A company called woodpecker has developed lego-like designs for building homes with coffee byproducts basically home kits.
Probably not. Something like hempcrete is a better option.
bless those folks hanging tuff and making something very unique.
Слава Україні 🇺🇦 ❤️ 🇮🇳 love from India
Slava Pakistani
That's a neat idea, and it's awesome to see the nation continuing to live free. Glory to Ukraine!
Prayers for Ukraine
Slava Russia 🇷🇺
Slava Russia
How about eyeglasses made from recycled Azov Battalion badges?
Way to go guys ❤️
To be fair, the "it keeps them out of landfill" is a very low bar to clear.
Even just collecting a cities coffee grounds and using them as fertilizer on veggie growing operations in the suburbs would not only achieve that same objective, but also help build soil which is a massive climate achievement.
Far better than this energy intensive process, for certain.