Central Saint Martins graduate designer Daisy Newdick has created an alternative to coffee using the roots of the dandelion plant.
Called Make Weeds Great Again, Newdick's project aims to highlight the overlooked qualities of the common dandelion plant, which is often seen as an "unsightly weed that spoils the nation's lawns".
After discovering that, in the UK alone, people consume around 95 million cups of coffee per day, the designer was driven to find a local alternative source to the beverage in Britain.
As a result, Newdick created an alternative to coffee ? that doesn't require beans to be shipped from overseas ? by roasting, grinding, and brewing the roots of dandelions.

"In the West, and especially in cities, we take for granted the immense distances and complex supply-chains foodstuffs travel before they reach us," the designer told Dezeen. "Often, the social and environmental costs of mass-produced dietary staples are enveloped by convenience," she continued.
"This is particularly true of coffee ? a drink so embedded within western culture that the exploitation of workers, contamination of water supplies, and widespread deforestation accompanying the cultivation of it, are overlooked."
"With increasing demand driving environmentally degrading practices, together with the impacts of the climate emergency, the future of this highly esteemed commodity is uncertain," added Newdick.

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