As food insecurities and a lack of resources sprout up nationwide, the restaurant industry is taking steps to combat waste. Suis Generis, a Bywater neighborhood restaurant, has reduced waste by ...

"Could you not have a bin in the kitchen," was the catalyst question that sent young chef Doug McMaster on his quest to create the world’s first zero waste restaurant. It might sound like a lofty ...

Chef Douglas McMaster founded Silo and pioneered the zero-waste dining movement, milling his own flour from whole grains to minimize excess by-products and eliminate packaging waste. Walking into Silo ...

Chef Doug McMaster at Silo Restaurant in London. Launched in 2014, Silo billed itself as the world's first zero-waste restaurant. Since then, a number of restaurants at every price point, from cafes, ...

“When you make sourdough, you never know how much you’re going to need,” McMaster tells Observer, speaking from his London restaurant in August. “Bread is the number one wasted food product in the ...

With his zero-waste restaurant, The Plot, Davin Waite is on a mission to make root-to-stem dishes the future of dining. Every year, Americans throw away a staggering 92 billion pounds of edible food.