Sustainable Food Paper
Overview
Food Paper demonstrates a method in reproducing paper which uses the waste food ingredients. It is a simple production method, but the result material turned beautiful and strong. Food Paper could potentially be applied to modern industry use, such as packaging, crafts and other surprising uses.
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Food Paper aims to promote the concept of reusing materials that we see as waste everyday, this includes food waste, packaging, clothing and all other materials. By reusing, we extend the life cycle of a material, which helps reducing the amount of waste.
Inspired by the documentary “We Feed the World (2005)”. Overconsumption of food in this capitalized world we live in has lead to the unbelievable amount of food waste. In the EU, tones of bread as edible food were thrown away every year; meanwhile in India, where the maize for bread are imported from, people are suffering from malnutrition and starvations.
Apparently the mono cultural food productions employed nowadays do not provide the solution to feed everyone. On the contrary, the use of pesticide and other chemicals in the mono agriculture is poisoning our environment, destroying the natural cycle of sustainability.
I wish to demonstrate that the waste can be easily transformed into something useable and valuable. The idea is to reproduce paper using food waste. Things we can source from daily life such as tealeaves, carrot peels, grapefruit peels, radish peels, and cauliflower leaves were applied in the production of Food Paper. Apart from the food waste, I also added a little amount of used paper in order to increase the tension of the food paper.
