{"id":29481,"date":"2023-05-05T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thegreenlist.nl\/?p=29481"},"modified":"2025-11-26T21:08:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T20:08:05","slug":"diy-on-mothers-day-zero-waste-flowers-for-mum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thegreenlist.nl\/en\/diy-op-moederdag-zero-waste-bloemen-voor-mam\/","title":{"rendered":"DIY on Mother's Day: zero waste flowers for mum"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For everyone with (young) children, Mother's Day is a special day, but companies also make good use of it to sell their fun, useful, special and beautiful products to all those sweet mothers who deserve to be in the limelight. Can there be any other way? Absolutely! Our DIY expert Melanie has an idea: make a bunch of flowers out of leftover fabrics. These zero waste flowers are a great gift for mum and the planet.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Ultimate Mother's Day gift: zero waste flowers with no environmental damage<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The most common gift given on Mother's Day is flowers. And I don't blame anyone in that. Flowers make you happy, add colour to your living room and put a smile on everyone's face. It is almost impossible to imagine the huge environmental damage behind that lovely fragrance. Flowers may seem like a sustainable product from nature, but they are anything but. Many flowers come from abroad and arrive here by plane or truck. And the flowers that come from here often grow in a heated greenhouse, which in turn involves a lot of CO2 emissions and often pesticides. Want to know more about this? Earlier we wrote a article on the impact of flowers and how to choose it more sustainably<\/a>.<\/a> And so I set to work on a better little flower, namely a bunch made from an old pair of jeans that can also last for years. How zero waste do you want it to be?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A craft project perfect for Mother's Day: making a bunch of flowers out of old jeans.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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DIY: craft a zero waste bunch of flowers<\/h2>\n
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On Mother's Day, go for a sustainable and meaningful gift: make your own zero waste flowers from leftovers. These will last a lifetime and are a lot less polluting than real flowers. And say it yourself: this is just so much more original too, isn't it? This will score points!<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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