#kitchen waste

[hope-for-the-planet]

Shanghai on path to becoming zero-waste city

Circular economy spans from residential communities to industrial sectors

Shanghai is moving from simple recycling towards operating a zero-waste circular economy. Household recycling is up to 45% due to mandatory sorting requirements and industrial recycling is nearing 98%. Recycled items include everything from aluminum to kitchen waste to industrial and medical waste.

[storageformyhome]

Best Compost Storage Tips for Maximum Efficiency

Discover effective compost storage solutions that enhance sustainability and enrich your soil. Learn how to choose the best compost bin.

Guess what, friends? Our quest for a sustainable lifestyle can start right in our kitchens! With proper compost bins, like the convenient kitchen bin or the modern electric composter, we turn waste into wealth. And by wealth, I mean nutrient-rich soil for our plants! 🌱 Let's talk about our sustainability journeys. How have composting and waste reduction changed your lifestyle? Share your stories in the comments!

[bumblebeeappletree]

Sasha Duerr uses just about anything to dye clothing: from kitchen waste (coffee grounds, avocado pits, and onion skins) to invasive "weeds" (wild fennel, oxalis) to the leaves, fruit, or petals of nearly any tree or plant (maple, pear, cherry, fig, acorn, fern, dahlia, poppy, lavender, etc).

Inspired by permaculture, Duerr believes in a slower approach to textile dying- she founded the "Permacouture" Institute to help advance Slow Textiles- both as a way to respect the environment, but also because she believes that plant-based color is more beautiful and truly alive.

"Natural dyes harmonize with each other in a way that only botanical colors can,” she writes in her book The Handbook of Natural Plant Dyes(*). “A natural dye, a red for example, will include hints of blue and yellow, whereas a chemically produced red dye contains only a single red pigment, making the color less complex... The unique qualities of naturally dyed textiles can often make the color vibrate or glow, which is truly magical."

The colors produced by plants may be magical, but the process to create them- believes Duerr- is really quite simple. To prove just how accessible the organic botanical color really is, she helped create the Fiber and Dye Walk at the California College of Arts and Crafts (where she teaches). In a simple walk through the campus, there are over 30 plants and trees that can be used as dyes, including, apple, aloe, bamboo, cherry, eucalyptus, fig, ivy, olive, juniper, lily, rosemary, and wisteria.

This isn’t new information, as Duerr points out, during World War Two our grandparents were using things like red cabbage as a dye, but quickly the knowledge is becoming lost. When Duerr began to educate herself in organic botanical color sources, she turned to farmers and indigenous communities in an attempt to catalog what was once more common knowledge.

Duerr doesn’t want to teach the world to create color from our surroundings- in a sense Slow Color- simply so we’ll all become better stewards of nature and our shared culture, it’s also for us as human beings. “Much of what has become problematic in our modern lives,” she believes, “is related to our having forgotten how to connect with simple rhythms of nature”.

In this video, Duerr takes us for a tour of all the dye plants in the garden of a home she happens to be housesitting; she brews up a few batches of natural color from the leaves of a fern and fig and loquat trees; she gives us a tour of her natural-dyed wardrobe (including pieces from her bioregional knitwear collection Adie + George, created and run with partner Casey Larkin); and finally, she dyes a secondhand silk shirt for that evening’s event using the loquat leaves from the tree outside the house.

* Her book’s complete title is The Handbook of Natural Plant Dyes: Personalize Your Craft with Organic Colors from Acorns, Blackberries, Coffee, and Other Everyday Ingredients.

Original story here: http://faircompanies.com/videos/view/...

Adie+George: http://adieandgeorge.tumblr.com/

Sasha's book: http://www.timberpress.com/books/hand...

Originally posted on YouTube on February 13th 2012

[why-cant-we-be-solarpunk]

I'm sick and tired of replacing those foil liners than go under the element of an electric stove whenever they get gross.

Turns out you can wash them! Not sure if I can keep doing this forever tho, so if anyone knows of a non-disposable alternative let me know

[wildrungarden]

3/16/21 ~ Okay, I lied. This Green Bell Pepper has one tiny flower bulb poking through 🌱🌼 The leaves look like this because this is one of the plants Martin popped a squat on 😔🐈

[hodgepodge-hobby-blog]

Anybody got recommendations on some good kitchen composters?

I'm looking to get one to help out my veggie garden.

[bumblebeeappletree]

Join us for an introduction to the world of natural dyes. During this online demonstration, An will focus on using materials commonly found around the home such as kitchen waste, everyday cooking ingredients, fabric remnants, plant materials, and old vessels. This program will include displays of materials and demonstrations of a basic natural dye process from fabric preparation to color extraction.

Presenter: An-Phuong Ly, Natural Dye and Textile Artist

This program was recorded on Saturday, January 23, 2021. Find upcoming programs and recordings of previous programs at www.USBG.gov/OnlinePrograms

[bumblebeeappletree]

HOW TO BUNDLE DYE AT HOME WITH FOOD WASTE | NATURAL DYE | BOTANICAL COLOUR

How do you dye fabric with food?

How do you bundle dye?

Which plants and vegetables make the best dye?

How do you dye fabric naturally?

Bundle dyeing is one of the most fun and satisfying ways of using plant matter to transfer colour to your fiber. The results are literally pure magic and the nature of this process makes it perfect for professional projects or fun family activities.

Natural dyes are often described as “living colours” and it’s true. They have a charm and personality very unlike synthetic dyes with the much higher energetic frequency of life … and love if you’re into that kinda thing!

They are really easy to work with and non-toxic which is a big draw for a lot of people. They will never have the same permanence as synthetic dyes, they often change or vary over time, they are always dancing and they dance especially harmoniously together.

Bundle dyeing with plants can really open up your creativity. It encourages play and experimentation whilst deepening your relationship to nature and it’s alchemy.

BillyNou is about the wonderful process of natural dyeing I do for my brand, life, motherhood and the trails and errors of making and crafting.

I’d like to inspire others to become more conscientious, to find a connection with nature and benefit from this immense and totally accessible energy.