'Time football wakes up and smells the coffee' - Forest Green to wear kit made out of coffee grounds
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Updated 24/02/2021 at 12:54 GMT
The carbon neutral League Two club, recognised by FIFA as the world’s “greenest”, will trial the new material in Saturday’s game with Colchester. Combined with recycled plastic, chairman Dale Vince says it will continue their “adventure in alternative materials”, with this fabric “lighter, breathable and more durable” than a current kit which is made of a bamboo mix.
Forest Green will wear shirts made partly from coffee
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Forest Green Rovers will wear a new kit this weekend which uses the waste of coffee grounds as the base for a new material.
The League Two side, recognised by FIFA as the world’s “greenest” football club, became carbon neutral in 2017 and have previously worn material which is made from bamboo.
This fabric is said to be “lighter, breathable and more durable” than that version, and is made by mixing coffee grounds with recycled plastic.
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The shirt is made from coffee and recycled plastic
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It will be trialled when the Gloucestershire team face Colchester on Saturday.
The innovation is the latest from a club owned by Dale Vince, a champion of green energy who also created and runs Ecotricity.
"Our adventure in alternative materials continues," said Vince, who is also Forest Green’s chairman.
"When we pioneered bamboo with PlayerLayer two years ago it was considered a pretty revolutionary idea, and the thought of using coffee grounds is no less radical or surprising.
"It's time the world of football wakes up and smells the coffee about the future of the planet. If nothing else, this prototype kit will bring new flavour to that old cliché of grinding out a result."
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