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Matching on Apple peel and cores · Kitchen waste

Properties we’ll match against: P05, P06, P02. Sorted by how many of these properties each recipe uses.

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Extracts pectin from peel and pulp, then gels into a firm, glass-like sheet. Naturally slightly coloured by the fruit.

Fruit peel blitzed with a binder into a sculptable putty. Each fruit gives a different tone and scent.

Fruit pulp dried slowly into a flexible edible or non-edible sheet. With pectin it turns glossy and firm; without, soft and supple.

The leftover pulp from apple juicing pressed and dried into a thick, warm sheet.

Ripe banana peel blitzed, strained, seasoned with glycerine and dried slowly.

The classic iron gall ink. Tannins meet iron salts and darken to a deep grey-black that oxidises further with time.

A brown-spectrum dye from bark, walnut husk, or acorns. Naturally self-mordanting thanks to its tannin load.

Recycled paper pulp pressed into moulds and dried into lightweight bricks or boards. A home insulation or craft base.

Waste paper pulped and set in a deckle to make fresh sheets. Absorbent, deckle-edged, suitable for printing and drawing.

Paper made from retted plant stems. Stronger and more textured than recycled paper.