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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Imogen Lepere

‘It really is possible to be zero waste’: the restaurant with no bin

The three men are sitting on stools outside their restaurant
Left to right: Lucio Usobiaga, Douglas McMaster and Pablo Usobiaga of Baldío. Photograph: Bénédicte Desrus

Hunched over the pass in the open restaurant kitchen, a team of chefs are dusting ceviche with a powder made from lime skins that would, in most cases, have been thrown away. The Mexico City restaurant where they work looks like most restaurant kitchens but it lacks one key element: there is no bin.

Baldío was co-founded by brothers Lucio and Pablo Usobiaga and chef Doug McMaster, best known for his groundbreaking zero-waste spot Silo London. “In my eyes, bins are coffins for things that have been badly designed,” says McMaster. “If there was a trophy for negligence, it would be bin-shaped.”

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