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Stop throwing away used coffee grounds.
Even if you don't have a garden, or house plants, there are other uses for them.
http://thehomesteadinghippy.com/seven-uses-for-coffee-grounds-in-the-garden/ (http://thehomesteadinghippy.com/seven-uses-for-coffee-grounds-in-the-garden/)
I keep my dried coffee grounds and regularly dose my window sill plants. It doesn't take much, and it is a excellent soil amendment. To dry, just spread on a cookie sheet or pie tin and let them set in a warm place with air flow.
If your coffee grounds get moldy before they dry, they still work as soil amendments. You can avoid this by using a food dehydrator to speed the drying process. Store the dried grounds in a jar with lid, it doesn't need to be airtight.
It is also an insect repellent for more than one type of pest.
If you don't have a use, give them to a friend who does... Coffee is too expensive to waste.
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One thing not mentioned was that used coffee grounds make excellent mushroom starting and growing medium.
You might assume that all the good stuff is pulled out during brewing, but you'd be wrong. In fact, that byproduct is apparently chock full of antioxidants, so it may actually be healthy to eat coffee grounds.
Researchers publishing in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry analyzed used coffee grounds and discovered that they are full of antioxidants (“dietary phenolic compounds") which help to protect cardiovascular health. In fact, depending on which method the researchers used to extract the phenols, the grounds sometimes contained even higher levels of phenols than the brewed coffee!
I have eaten brewed coffee grounds and they are not bad...waste not!