{"id":129048,"date":"2023-07-10T07:33:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T05:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=129048"},"modified":"2023-07-05T10:47:21","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T08:47:21","slug":"floral-foam-made-from-cut-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/floral-foam-made-from-cut-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Floral foam made from cut flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>Conventional flower inserts are primarily made of phenol-formaldehyde foam. Thai designer Irene Purasachit uses discarded cut flowers to create an eco-friendly floral sponge, diverting paper and textiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"648\" src=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2023\/07\/image-15.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-129050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2023\/07\/image-15.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2023\/07\/image-15-300x190.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2023\/07\/image-15-150x95.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2023\/07\/image-15-768x486.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2023\/07\/image-15-400x253.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption><strong>\u00a9<\/strong> Irene Purasachit<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">40% of all cut flowers are not sold<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Over time, we have gotten used to being able to buy a huge selection of fruit and vegetables in supermarkets, regardless of the season. Even in the winter months there are always bulging buckets with all kinds of flowers in addition to the perfectly formed red strawberries. Whether it\u2019s roses, tulips or carnations, we can buy them all year round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cut flowers fare the same as dead-straight cucumbers and flawless&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.haute-innovation.com\/magazin\/nachhaltigkeit\/nachhaltige-batterie-aus-apfelresten\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">apples<\/a>. On the way to the trade, 40 percent of the flowers are thrown away from the originally imported goods. An enormous amount that has so far found its way into the composting plants unused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Irene Purasachit uses the easily identifiable organic waste to produce paper, textiles and an environmentally friendly foam. She now offers this to florists and consumers as a sustainable and, above all, plastic-free alternative, free of chemicals and made from 100% plant fibers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She succeeded in this development during her master\u2019s degree at Aalto University in Helsinki. Irene Purasachit is currently receiving a grant from\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/designfarmberlin.com\/farmers\" target=\"_blank\">DesignFarm Berlin<\/a>\u00a0to turn the development into a marketable product.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/irenepurasachit.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.irenepurasachit.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conventional flower inserts are primarily made of phenol-formaldehyde foam. Thai designer Irene Purasachit uses discarded cut flowers to create an eco-friendly floral sponge, diverting paper and textiles. 40% of all cut flowers are not sold Over time, we have gotten used to being able to buy a huge selection of fruit and vegetables in supermarkets, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","nova_meta_subtitle":"Environmentally friendly alternative to phenol formaldehyde foams","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[12610,22397,17585,14859,21075],"supplier":[13349,21230],"class_list":["post-129048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-biofoam","tag-floral","tag-organicwaste","tag-plantbased","tag-plasticfree","supplier-haute-innovation","supplier-irene-purasachit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129048"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=129048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}