What do you think oranges and cats have in common? Their 9 lives! Did you think an orange’s life come to an end once in our stomach and once its skin is thrown into the rubbish? If yes, you were wrong. Well, partially wrong! After our stomach has begun digesting the orange, don’t throw its skin: you can’t imagine how many ways there are to reuse it.
First of all, stop using house perfumes. You can prepare your own perfume by letting the orange skin dry after cutting it into small pieces. They can be the main ingredient to put in a small bowl of potpourri or in a very small veiled bag to put in your wardrobe. You’ll see, its fragrance is not too strong and will give your clothes a light citrusy smell!
Moreover, dried small pieces of orange skin are the perfect ingredient for your wintery fruity infusions. You can even add some fresh slices of apple and a sprinkle of cinnamon and here’s your homemade infusion, which would be a nice present too.
A final idea for recycling orange skin would be cutting it into a spiral, letting it dry for 4-5 days and hanging it on your Christmas tree with a short piece of twine. Original, colorful and easy! [wink]
Another way to recycle orange skin is wearing it. Have you ever thought of it? I’m sure you are thinking: “How would it be possible?”.
The answer to your question is given by two girls, Adriana Santonocito and Enrica Arena, who, after studying Fashion Design the former and International Cooperation for Development the latter, decided to join their skills to create a new kind of textile: orange fiber.
Coming both from Catania (Sicily), where oranges are produced in very large quantities and sometimes left on the ground to go bad, they found a way to avoid this waste. They succeeded in extracting cellulose from oranges and creating clothes from it. Weird, isn’t it? Though, thanks to biotechnologies and a good amount of willpower, these brilliant women not only gave birth to this idea, but also had it patented.
Orange fiber clothes join the need to reduce waste food and the healthy advantages we can have from nature, as we can get Vitamin C, A and E that are released by this natural fiber.
Prized from various authorities in this field, this is the first step to disentangle ourselves from oil dependency (for those who don’t know, synthetic fibers come from that).
So, would you wear eco-friendly, healthy and sustainable “Orange fiber” clothes?
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