World’s first ‘zero waste’ restaurant | BBC Global

Every year, one-third of food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted globally, according to the World Food Programme.

But a restaurant in London, UK, is trying to tackle the issue by aiming to produce no waste for landfill.

As part of its zero waste mission, Silo uses a nose to tail and root to tip approach to cooking out of respect for nature.

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[elsjemassyn]

You can learn a lot from this guy.
Were not perfect but were striving for perfection
Thats good enough

[acchaladka]

I travel a lot for work and would follow a series like this around various cities i have to go to...

[ccantrell]

I appreciate that he revealed that the system is not 100% zero waste and that it never will be

[darylmckay]

So a high end restaurant for rich people is connecting with the planet through expensive small portions of food?

[GailGurman]

So are the small portion of pumpkin and the small portion of sauce and the small portion of marmalade all proportional to the size of the pumpkin such that they all match up? Is there no extra skin or muscle fibers or whatever left over? What do they do with the extras from this and other dishes?

[blakemccabe]

0 waste is impossible. They still use water to wash things, that water down the drain is waste, but the boxes things come in. They really mean low waste, but that doesn;t have the same ring to it. However, I love the sentiment and think it's great. Ppl forget that there are many parts of foods we chuck that can be used and often it's just foods from places we aren;t familiar with. I learned a recipe for plantain peels recently, which was very cool and I'd never thought they could be edible

[ЦзинКэ-ых]

I'm all-pro zero waste, but sometimes you need to think wisely. I have giant doubts that pumpkin skin is great and healthy. Throw it in compost or try to make veggie broth with it. Trying to make something edible from that sounds like a waste of resources.

[makuikui]

Zero FOOD waste doesn't mean zero waste.

[tiotom]

f*ckn nice idea, and the plus as guest: no menue for more than a year, no everytime a surprise and something different. how cool is this (also as a cook in the restaurant)!

[guff]

They even recycle toilet waste into next day's soup

[francis_n]

As long as they don't incorporate leftovers from plates of last night's patrons into today dish in the name of zero waste then I'm all good 😅