UAE residents promote sustainability with art and food
STORY: These UAE residents are turning ‘trash’ into treasure
to encourage sustainable lifestyles through art and food
Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE
Ayesha Hadhir creates artwork from abandoned items found in shipwrecks
as well as litter she collects from the sea floor
to raise awareness about ocean sustainability
(Ayesha Hadhir, Artist)
"Over a period of a year or so, I went into the shipwreck, I went diving almost every weekend or so to collect these pieces that we just saw at the installation. Every time I would go, I would discover new things, and it's not just about what the shipwreck gives me, but what I also give to the shipwreck. There is this interaction, you know. What I did, as an experiment, first wanted to take things from it, things that I see is harming the place."
Location: Dubai, UAE
Chef Carlos Frunze De Garza is on a mission to reduce food waste at his restaurant
He turns leftovers into sauces, oils and even kombucha
(Carlos Frunze De Garza, Executive chef at 'Teible')
"I have seen a lot of chefs throw away things, but now it is becoming a trend (sustainability and avoiding food waste), which is not supposed to be a trend, it's supposed to be a lifestyle in the kitchen, where you don't throw things away, you just use it, just think of it differently, look at one ingredient or one vegetable, look at how you can use it from the seeds to the core and make everything out of it, you can make peels, you can make salad, the seeds you can give it back to the farmers, who can regrow the seeds, then the cores or the peels, we can make something out of it, we can make oils, we can make vinegars, we can make sauces. That is the point of it."
