A zero-waste restaurant serves only expired food. Affordable prices, excellent menu: a restaurant in Malmo (video)

Spill's owner says: "I'd like to close within the next five years; it would mean the anti-waste recipe has worked." The Swedish town aims to become a sustainability capital.

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ANTI-WASTE RESTAURANT

In the anti-waste restaurant in Malmo, in Sweden, only expired food is served. Eric Anderssen, the owner, prepares meals for his customers with unsold ingredients, close to their expiry date, which risk being thrown away, but not for this reason inedibleThe restaurant is doing well, but Anderssen says: “I hope to close within five years, which would mean we have a functioning anti-waste system.”

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ANTI-WASTE RESTAURANT SWEDEN

When working in the kitchen, Anderssen always checks that the ingredients chosen are actually still fresh. safe to eat, although close to their due date deadline and he comments: "You feed the cow, you slaughter it, you prepare it for distribution; and then you don't sell it, you have to throw it away. That's incomprehensible to me: it's simply wrong."

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Meanwhile, customers are satisfied and return to his restaurant several times, because they are won over first of all by the goodness of the meals and by the environmental policy choice, also convinced by the fact that in fact a lot of food is wasted every day, when it could be used better. The whole town of Malmo is committed to becoming the most sustainable in the world.

(Cover image and video credits(www.repubblica.it)

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