Food waste (from the University) is only about 0.2% of our feedstock to our digesters on an annual basis.” “We blend it with several other waste streams. “From there, we directly feed it into a blending tank … and then we store it for three to five days,” Lagle said. Wade Lagle, the operations supervisor at the sanitary district, explained what the district does with the slurry. When the tank hits 80% capacity, the slurry is picked up and transported to the Urbana & Champaign Sanitary District. The result is a semi-liquid mixture called slurry, which is then pumped out to a several thousand-gallon holding tank outside the dining halls. Since 2019, the University dining halls and the Urbana & Champaign Sanitary District have been repurposing food waste into energy and fertilizer using a system called Grind2Energy.Īfter food is put in the green bins at the dining halls, it is taken into the kitchens, mixed with water and put into a grinder. In the University dining halls, food waste is only at 2%. It will cost about $50 to collect all these supplies but you’ll be able to frame around 10 different pieces.According to the United States Department of Agriculture, up to 40% of all food in the U.S. Here are some general costs of everything in this project: Glass or plexiglass $20, mat board $7, mat board cutter $15, paper tape $4, hardware to hang your artwork $5. Attach a piece of hanging hardware with superglue on the back and then mount an extra piece of tape onto it for support. Once it is done let it dry for at least an hour before handling and wait several hours before hanging. I usually eyeball the thickness of tape that I want and then try to match the last three sides to the first. Then repeat with the opposite edge and then finish with the last two edges. Pull the tape tightly over the edge and around the back smoothing it nice and tight. Place the tape gently starting in the middle and working toward the edges. Once you get it wet you have about 30-45 seconds to get it placed right before it starts to dry. Get the paper tape and wet the back of it.
Then stack the plexiglass, mat and artwork, and cardboard on the back. If you are using plexiglass remove the film on it. Now you are ready to put it all together. Tape the artwork on the back of the mat board so it is secure in place. Measure where you want the opening and follow the instructions on the package of the mat board cutter. It cuts the matboard with a beveled edge and is really easy to use. If you are planning on framing more that a few pieces its definitely easier to invest in a matboard cutter for $15. It is usually around $8 to have a piece of matboard cut to your specific size of art. Glass stores sell glass very inexpensively or if you have a lot to frame go to Home Depot and have them cut down a $20 sheet of plexiglass to the sizes you want. Then I made all the dimensions based on the size of the plexiglass. Materials Needed: Glass or plexiglass, mat board cut to the size of the plexiglass (from an art store), mat board cutter, a piece of cardboard cut to the size of the plexiglass, ruler, paper tape (from an art store), exacto knife, hardware to hang your artwork, superglueįirst, I started with some leftover plexiglass we had from this project. This project is perfect when you just want a simple thin frame. I even experimented and painted the tape black and it worked great, you can change the color very easily. The bonuses are it is really cheap and you can make the thickness of each frame different. If you want to remove the artwork you have to remove the tape and take it apart. First, you can’t frame extra large pieces because the tape isn’t strong enough to hold a large piece of glass or plexiglass. There are two main limitations to this kind of framing. With these tools you pay a tiny more up front but you’ll be able to frame a lot of artwork.
Framing gets expensive when you buy the frames then have the custom mat cut. I’ve seen it a few other times here in France since but I think its ingenius. I was shocked to see that the “frame” was actually kraft paper tape. She laughed and told me to pick it up off the wall and look at the back. I was at a friend’s home a few months ago and I asked her where she got her pretty thin wood frames.
HOW TO MAKE PHOTO FRAME WITH WASTE MATERIAL SERIES
Find my other posts in this series here: Potato Print Art Work, Modern Art DIY, Painted Words as Art.
This is a series of posts I’m doing on affordable art.
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