![]() And they’re not the only ones, Freegan Pony in Paris also serves delicious meals from food that was deemed too old to sell, but still good to eat. Ingredients range from scraps collected from fish shops to surplus food from supermarkets and surplus beers from Heineken (fun fact: Heineken is a Dutch company whose first brewery was in Amsterdam). InStock’s menu changes daily as chefs get creative with whatever ingredients the restaurant collects from vendors that day. The founders, who met while working at a large grocery store in Amsterdam, were disturbed by the amount of food that gets wasted and decided to open a restaurant to address the problem.Ī photo posted by INSTOCK on at 11:41pm PDT He featured gourmet meals made from all the bits and pieces of food normally tossed out.Ī restaurant in Amsterdam, InStock, is taking this idea a step further. Let’s just hope no one mistakes your art for trash (see: this boozy art exhibition in Italy that was accidentally thrown out).Ĭooking with food waste might just be the next hot culinary trend.įor three weeks last year, Dan Barber, the chef and co-owner of Blue Hill, turned his restaurant into a pop-up. ![]() These of course, are not the only ways art can be born out of trash. De Pajaro marks a spot near each of his works with one phrase in an effort to challenge society’s aesthetic norms, and when the garbage is cleared away in the morning, three words - “ Art is Trash” - are all that remain. He spray paints over bags of garbage, chucked boxes, and any other trash he stumbles upon on the street, turning them into characters that often appear “ hurt, humiliated and ignored by society.” In other words, they appear dejected, kind of like your trash when you don’t give it purpose. ![]() Instead of strolling by a collection of garbage, passersby can now enjoy Lor-K’s whimsical creations.Ī photo posted by Lor-K on at 8:11pm PDTįrancisco de Pajaro, a Spanish street artist, takes a different approach to trash as art. Once completed, she leaves her works exactly where she found the materials, on the streets of Paris. Lor-K gives fluffy pastry a whole new meaning crafting waffles, cakes, and other foods out of what most people consider garbage. ![]() She has been fashioning abandoned mattresses and cushions into larger-than-life food sculptures as part of her latest project called Eat Me. Turn it into artįrench street artist, Lor-K, turns discarded mattresses into museum-worthy objects. Here are 7 ways you can reuse waste. From food to clothing - and everything in between - leading companies, artists, and chefs set examples, paving the way to a more sustainable world and you can get inspired to do the same. So how can you take your garbage from waste to wonder? Your trash can be your own treasure. The more stuff you save from going in the trash, the less trash you’ll have to take out. One man’s trash doesn’t have to be another’s treasure. There are so many ways to reuse and recycle to reduce our trash trail. No one really wants to take out the trash because it’s heavy and it ends up in landfills that release toxic substances, emit greenhouse gases, and is often viewed as just plain ugly. There’s a reason people always fight over who’s supposed to take out the trash: it sucks.
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