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Local environmental centers collaborate for Zero Waste Week
Three Gainesville organizations are joining forces to teach the community how to reduce waste The storefront of Life Unplastic offers information about the second annual Zero Waste Week.
No leftovers in Brittany Boyer’s home get thrown away.
Onion skins, turmeric, avocado pits and flowers are the dye for her art, stained onto cotton canvases from The Repurpose Project. The scraps are discarded in the compost setup in her backyard, which is fenced in by reused chicken wire and wood pieces.
Her sustainable lifestyle began on the seven acre farm in Illinois where she was raised. Since she lived an hour from major grocery stores, she learned how to live in amity with the land, eating what it produced and maximizing the resources.