But compost isn’t the only way in whichcoffee grounds can be recycled.

For the former, simply mix a handful or two of coffee grounds into the soil around your plants.

Coffee grounds can be used to keep away mosquitoes,fruit flies, and beetles.

Coffee grounds

you might even use coffee grounds on your pets as a natural flea repellent.

Rub the grounds onto your just-washed furry friend, then rinse them off.

However it works, it works.

Coffee grounds being used as fertilizer

Well, guess what?

you’re able to use coffee’s super-staining powers for good as well as for evil!

Use the reconstituted coffee as a paint-on wood stain.

Spider on coffee cup

Let it sit for an hour or more, then wash, rinse, repeat (if necessary).

Scrubbing hands with coffee grounds

Wood stain

Coffee face scrub