How Ford makes car parts from used McDonald’s coffee beans

How Ford makes car parts from used McDonald’s coffee beans

More than 62 million pounds of McDonald's coffee chaff go straight to landfills.

But the company partnered with Ford Motor Company to help minimize their waste to landfills.

The research team at Ford discovered that coffee chaff, the unused dried skin that comes off the bean during the roasting process, can be used to make car parts.

This is the process Ford uses to turn coffee-bean skins into sustainable headlights.

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Following is a transcript of the video.

Narrator: Every year, McDonald's produces more than 62 million pounds of coffee chaff. That's the unused dried skin that comes off of coffee beans during the roasting process. And that 62 million pounds used to go straight to landfills. But now, Ford is taking that chaff from McDonald's and turning it into car parts.

Almost 140 million tons of solid waste was sent to US landfills in 2017. And when that waste hits a landfill, it creates a pile of trash that is impossible to take back. And incinerating the waste creates carbon dioxide and other greenhouse-gas emissions that are harmful to the environment. But some materials don't have to end up in landfills, like coffee chaff.

McDonald's partnered with Ford's research team,