ABOUT US
Our issue are spent coffee grounds. This is what remains as a by-product in the process of making your cup of coffee. Mostly they end up in the trash together with municipal waste and among that contribute to greenhouse gas emissions. As the amount of coffee grounds is not a negligible, we think it is unnecessary to handle them this way. Because only in the Czech Republic we drink up to hundred thousands cups of coffee every day...
We return the spent coffee grounds back into the soil and thus give them another chance.
#COFFEE IS NOT THE END
#COFFEE IS THE BEGINNING
We are a team of coffee enthusiasts from Prague, who care about the environment. We decided to find a local use of spent coffee grounds and to teach people how to use this valuable raw material.
OUR MISSION
To cafes and organizations we provide spent coffee grounds collection service
and we connect them with community gardens, where the grounds serve another purpose.
Moreover, the grounds remain in the locality where it was produced. In this way, we support local products and people. We strive for waste-free cities.
By picking up the spent coffee grounds on an electric cargo bike we think about the environment and we save natural resources.
We show other coffee lovers, how easy it is to reuse their own coffee grounds in the comfort of their own home.
Because the biggest changes happen when we start by ourselves
and in our community - in office, in favorite cafe or at home.
#LOCAL
#EASY
#SUSTAINABLE
#WITH RESPECT TO NATURE
#WITHIN THE COMMUNITY
OUR STRATEGIC PARTNERS
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Jana Sramkova
founder
Jana is the founder of reKáva. Thanks to her, a small team became a strong, beneficial start-up with a clear vision. She herself drinks enough cups of coffee a day that she could easily be a reKáva's customer. She likes to grow mushrooms at home in the Growkit, which she uses on maximum.
Michaela Cermakova
project coordinator
Michaela is a microbiologist with a love for coffee and a soul for nature. Therefore, it makes sense for her to look for ways to support and protect it. Thanks to the recycling of coffee grounds. She takes care about the reKáva from inside and also helps the coffee grounds to transform into an oyster mushrooms.
Viktorie Daskova
marketing specialist
Viktorie is a passionate lover of coffee. As she likes to say, she is responsible for roughly half of the two billion cups drunk in the world every day. Thanks to that, she decided to at least partially sweep away her nature-demanding hobby, and joined the reKávy team.
Michal Turek
marketing creative
Michal takes care of reKáva's marketing activities and ways to make it visible to the public. Himself he is a frequent guest in cafes, which is why reKáva makes sense to him. What's more, he is also a passionate grower! And who can say they grow mushrooms at home, right?!
Adam Buben
collection service coordinator
At reKáva, Adam takes care of the smooth running of the collection service we provide to cafes and organisations. He is responsible for quality control and takes care of Smart Bins. reKáva makes sense to him, because he starts every day with at least one cup of coffee.
Anna Bohacova
community garden coordinator
Anna coordinates communication with community gardens to which we import coffee grounds from cafes. She makes sure that the gardens are happy to cooperate with us and that the grounds end up where they will be useful. What she likes about reKáva is that it gives new meaning to waste that would otherwise end up unused in the trash.
Michal Turek
marketing creative
Michal takes care of reKáva's marketing activities and ways to make it visible to the public. Himself he is a frequent guest in cafes, which is why reKáva makes sense to him. What's more, he is also a passionate grower! And who can say they grow mushrooms at home, right?!
OUR WAY
2019
The emergence of the idea that a company focused on the collection and reuse of spent coffee grounds could operate in the Czech Republic.
2020
May
With the reKáva project, we participated in SIA20 (Social Impact Award 2020) and remained among the 10 finalists. From the competition we took away valuable cooperation with PwC.
October
Founder Jana Šrámková registered reKáva in the commercial register.
September
We took part in a year course of circular tendering, during which we drew on the know-how of working with spent coffee grounds.
November
Together with PwC, we started developing chips for reKáva's Smart Bins.
2021
April June
We entered the acceleration program from Google, during which we established cooperation with Plastenco company
September
In cooperation with Plastenco, we started developing design packaging for the Growkit product.
July August
The founder Jana went to the Netherlands to visit the company Rotterzwam, where she spent a month drawing on the knowledge of growing mushrooms and composting coffee grounds.
2022
February
We moved reKáva from cafes to the comfort of a beautiful office at Old Town Square in the Prague Creative Center building.
We also signed up for the NakopniPrahu competition, which we kicked until the official announcement in June.
April
reKáva has become a member of the circular hotspot.
June
We won second place in the NakopniPrah competition
March
We entered the PointOne start-up incubator at ČZU.
May
We have managed to develop a packaging for the chip, which is placed in the lid of our Smart Bins in cafes.
At the same time, we tested it for the first time as part of the Greenhackathon event.