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Florist Jake Kuit turns repurposed flowers into fashion to stem the tide of industry-wide wastage – ABC News
Australian florist Jake Kuit is reusing flowers for elaborate, creative fashion photoshoots to give blooms a “second life” and to highlight what he says is gross…
For Jake Kuit, it all started when he saw an enormous arrangement of tropical flowers he had carefully worked on for a party in London taken down the next day and sent to landfill.
Key points:
- Jake Kuit has been recycling flowers for fleeting art and fashion pieces
- All the flowers in his shoots have been saved from landfill
- He said flower and single-use plastic wastage is rife in the flora industry
He was told it was cheaper to send them to the tip than recut or repropagate them.
Kuit said the flowers…
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