900 trillion tonnes of food is wasted yearly, and so I challenged myself to turn this abundance of “waste” into utility. In this project, the wasted food was reincarnated twice. Firstly, it was given a second life as a bioplastic or a bioleather after a thorough experimentation with recipes. Next, the results were made into jewellery. Safe to say that one man’s food waste is another man’s treasure.  

The cooking and drying process

The final bioplastic result

These earrings are made out of a bioplastic recipe using expired beetroot as one of the core ingredients, dried orange peels were then added to the mix. The final result was achieved after a lot of experimentation with bioplastic recipes using food waste and laser cutting techniques.