About the Author

Tenno Teidearu

E-Mail: tenno.teidearu@erm.ee   ORCID logo

Tenno Teidearu is a researcher at the Estonian National Museum and a PhD student in Ethnology at the University of Tartu. His main research interests are sustainable consumption practices, especially domestic DIY reuse, repurposing and repair, material culture, consumer culture, and material religion. His recent research on reuse and repair focuses on the materiality of sustainable domestic consumption practices and their cultural and social foundations.

Contributions by Author: Tenno Teidearu

The Domestic Reuse and Repurposing of Packaging

The Materiality of Sustainable Practices

The climate crisis, along with waste as a global ecological problem, have encouraged policymakers at various levels to establish regulations, initiatives, and agreements. For example, the European Parliament aims to adapt and promote a circular economy, which, in contrast to the linear economy model, aims to minimize the use of new raw materials and the production of waste in industrial production through reuse, repurposing and recycling of existing materials, including commodities and packaging…