Some products more expensive here, especially imports or highly processed foods. Others, happily, less expensive - like wine and olives.
Olive trees are valued and protected. You need permission to cut one down or even to uproot and move it. And there is an ancient tradition still practised here of smudging - burning leaves to ward off the evil eye or negative energy and encircling people three times with the smoke. Reminiscent of Native North American smudging ceremonies and probably as old.
Had never considered olive trees from the point of view of their creation of waste products. Not quite in the same league as plastic packaging but a nuisance all the same. Pomace, leftover skins, stems and - especially - seeds must be disposed of. Seeds in parts aren’t useful as fertiliser, or anything much else.
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| Courtesy pit-to-table.com |
However a bicommunal program has begun in the buffer zone between North and South Cyprus using crushed olive pits combined with bio-resin derived from cashew shells to make Pit-board, a bio-composite formed into solid panels suitable for construction and furniture making.
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