Here are five ways you may not have known to put food waste to use.
Food peelings, seeds, spoilt foodstuff, and other food waste can be repurposed for more health and financial benefits.
Let us explore five of them.
1. Avocado peel and seed for dye
Turn a white t-shirt, scarf, and other white fabric pink with avocado peelings and seeds.
Avocado has an acid called tannin which turns fabric pink or peach. Tannin helps the dye stick to fabric fibres.
Put the cloth in a basin of water and add the peels and seeds. Let them sit for a while until the fabric turns pink.
2. Soda and roses
You can save wilting roses by pouring soda into the vase they are standing in. The sugar in the soda replenishes the roses. Use sprite as it looks like water.
3. Chalk from eggs and flour
You can get homemade chalk by blending egg shells, flour, water, and food colouring. If you have an empty lip balm tube, fill it with the mixture and use it as needed.
4. Bread with mold
Don’t throw away moldy bread so fast if you have a scuff on your wall. Scuff is grazing or scrape marks on walls. The gluten in bread absorbs scuff like a champ leaving your walls spotless.
5. Candles out of bacon grease
Pour leftover bacon grease into a small glass tin. Add cloves, cinnamon, and a wick, and let them harden in the tin. Cinnamon and cloves will mask the smell of grease. Light the wick and get your candlelit dinner started.