Green Eco Kitchen EkoKook for a Clean Environment
The kitchen is important, significant, if not the main thinga room in any home where the whole family gathers for breakfast and dinner, where heartfelt and serious conversations take place, and where friends’ laughter can be heard. But the main purpose of the kitchen is to prepare food. Unfortunately, the concept of the kitchen can still be described as “consume, waste, pollute,” which is also true for all modern life. But there are designers and engineers who care about ecology, and such an eco-kitchen is designed to improve the health of an individual, the microclimate of an apartment, the ecological situation of a city, country, and the entire planet.
Employees of the French design studio FaltaziLab has developed an original eco-friendly kitchen EkoKook, where nothing is wasted, thrown away, or polluted. The kitchen is designed as an "island", meaning you can approach the work surface from any side.
Every centimeter of it is carefully thought out, soA relatively small area can accommodate a lot of necessary and useful devices: a sink, a hob, an oven, a refrigerator, a dishwasher, a steamer, interesting hanging storage systems, a hanging garden where you can grow edible and ornamental plants, as well as the main highlight of an eco kitchen - powerful systems for cleaning and recycling water, filtering and sorting inorganic waste, as well as a compost compartment for organic waste, which is in abundance in any kitchen.
All parts of the kitchen system are made with love andrespect for the environment from natural or recycled materials. An eco kitchen can rationally and correctly store products, provide the opportunity to cook them with maximum preservation of nutrients, reduce energy and water consumption to the minimum possible, sort and recycle waste.
The waste processing system is designedrational and, at the same time, unusual. Three units of the system are designed to work with different types of waste. The first unit collects, sorts, compacts for storage and subsequent disposal solid, mainly inorganic waste. The compartment has various clever mechanisms built in that flatten tin cans and plastic containers, crush broken glass, press paper waste and form them into briquettes. The second unit, built under the sink, is designed to filter, purify, store and recirculate water. Used and treated water can be reused as “technical” water for washing dishes, watering plants, and also for cooking in a steamer. Thus, you can save up to 15 liters of water per day. The third unit is the most interesting! Organic waste is processed here ... by live earthworms! The compartment has a special, constantly rotating drum that helps the worms evenly process perishable waste. The complete recycling process takes three months, after which the organic matter is converted into plant fertilizer, accumulating in a drawer.
You can study all the details, diagrams and descriptions of the EkoKook kitchen on its official website.
