Forest Green Rovers wears new shirt made of coffee waste

English football club Forest Green Rovers, which is recognised by FIFA as the world’s greenest football club, is trying a new jersey shirt made of recycled coffee bean waste. The club previously wore a bamboo shirt for two years. However, the club’s kit partner, PlayerLayer, found that coffee bean waste might be a more sustainable solution.

Forest Green Rovers is owned by British green energy industrialist Dale Vince who also owns Ecotricity, an electricity company. Dale Vince has been working with PlayerLayer to create more sustainable solutions, and this time, they combined coffee bean waste and recyclable plastic bottles.

Vince told BBC Sport that everything in their kit is either organic or recycled. He added that the shirt made of these materials are lighter and more breathable than their previous bamboo-based shirts.

Vince also made sure that the sustainable lifestyle in the club does not stop at the shirt, but also in the match-day meals for players, which are made vegan. Their home pitch, Innocent New Lawn, is also organic and irrigated using recycled water. The club is also fully powered by renewable electricity.