Every café in Frisco throws out good soil every morning.

We want to move it to your garden instead of the landfill. Free to collect, free to join.

A pilot program getting started in Frisco, Texas. We are signing up our first partner cafés now, so pickup spots below are examples of how a listing will look rather than live locations.

A narrow café under tungsten pendant lights, a hand-painted COFFEE sign hung above the counter, customers at work along both walls.

The short version

A single café bins an estimated 15 to 20 lb of spent grounds a day. In a landfill that mass breaks down without oxygen and releases methane. In soil it does the opposite: it feeds nitrogen back, holds water, and improves structure.

ReGrounds is the handoff in between. Cafés set aside what they already have. Residents collect it on a posted schedule. Nobody pays anybody.

An enamel mug filled with roasted beans, sitting in a deep bed of thousands more, shot from directly above.

For the café
One less thing in the bin
Spent grounds are heavy and wet, which makes them expensive to haul. Setting them aside cuts weight from the waste contract and gives staff a straight answer when a customer asks what you do with them.
For the resident
Free nitrogen, already ground
Grounds go straight into compost, around acid-loving beds, or into a deodorizer pouch. No processing, no cost, and a bucket lasts most gardens a month.
For Frisco
Measured, not claimed
Once collections begin, every pickup gets logged by weight, so the diversion figures on this site will be running totals rather than estimates.

What does a bucket actually save?

Drag the slider to any volume and the equivalents update. These are illustrative conversions, not a certified carbon accounting.

Grounds upcycled

120 lb

Against a 500 lb first-year goal for the pilot

0 lb500 lb

Estimated CO₂ avoided60.0 lb

66.0 miof driving not taken
1.2trees absorbing for a year
3,180phone charges powered

Conversions use standard EPA carbon-equivalency figures: 0.5 lb CO₂ per lb of grounds diverted from landfill.

Pickup spots

We’re signing up our first partner cafés now, so there are no live locations yet. Here’s how a listing will look once they’re on board — supply levels and collection times, updated by the café.

The listing below is a sample to show the format. It is not a real café, and the location is made up.

Example Coffee Co.

Example listing

A neighborhood in FriscoMon, Wed, Fri · 8:00–11:00 AM

Est. remaining18 lb

Plenty available

What to do with a bucket of it

Four uses that need nothing you don’t already own.

Dark potting mix spilled across a zinc bench beside a green scoop, a small glazed pot, and a pair of snips.

Fertilizer

The highest-volume use, and the one the pilot is built around.

Mix grounds into soil or compost, keeping them under 20% of the total volume.
Balance with a dry brown material such as fallen leaves or torn cardboard.
Turn the pile weekly so it stays aerobic.
Apply around roses, blueberries, and azaleas, which prefer the lower pH.

The gathered top of a hessian coffee sack, stencilled in dark ink with the words COFFEE and NICARAGUA.

Deodorizer

Costs nothing and uses a container you already have.

Spread the grounds on a tray and let them dry for a full day.
Fill an old sock or any breathable pouch.
Leave it in the fridge, a gym bag, or a shoe.
Swap it out every couple of weeks.

A bar of amber soap resting on a paler one, with a bristle brush, pumice stone and woven basket on soft white cloth.

Body scrub

Use grounds that have been dried, not straight from the basket.

Combine one cup of grounds with half a cup of coconut oil.
Add a spoon of brown sugar if you want more texture.
Massage gently onto damp skin.
Rinse thoroughly and pat dry.

A soy candle poured into a glass jar, its brass lid propped against a stack of books beside an armchair.

Bug-repellent candle

A weekend project. Melt the wax gently and never over direct heat.

Melt soy wax in a double boiler.
Stir in three tablespoons of thoroughly dried grounds.
Pour into a tin with a centred wick and let it set.
Burn outdoors, where the smoke keeps mosquitoes off.

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Register a café

Takes about a minute. We are enrolling the first group now and will follow up to agree a pickup window and drop off your window decal.

Window decal and a digital badge for your listings
Lower haulage weight on your waste contract
A listing on the pickup dashboard
Promotion through the ReGrounds community channels