🌍 Zero-waste wonders: restaurants to food stores to fashion 🗑️
Plus whole orange cake recipe, a bouncy angsty playlist and your collective tips
This week's theme is... zero waste 🗑️
If you’re joining us on the good ship BRiMM this week – welcome! – you’ll have missed last week’s ’sletter on how to generally buy better. We bigged up the likes of longer-lasting clothes made from regenerative materials, and local produce from more planet-positive food systems. (Here it is, if you want a little peek).
This week, we’re taking it even further and spotlighting the brands, people and places that are working on a zero- (or, at least, low-) waste model.
Now, zero-waste living isn’t for the half-hearted. Some might say doing it yourself is a next-level commitment – though it's hopefully one we’ll all be able to make within our lifetimes (give us a shout if you’re managing it already so we can give you props). But there is a lower-lift way to support the movement from today – by choosing to check out the waste-free restaurants, stores and labels putting in the hard graft already.
Thankfully, there are many sweet options out there to choose between: from Michelin Green-starred restaurants (see below), to 100-per-cent recycled art (we’ll always love Dutch artist Christien Meindertsma’s chronicle of all the products made from a pig), to furniture (this Boano Prismontas collection is soothingly minimalist). There are even zero-waste scrunchies (a scrunchy!) and slappy fashion labels like CLDM (see below).
As a first step then, go on, support the zero heroes out there, by tasting their super quality food and browsing their beautiful creations. It’s a big ask – but one we reckon the BRiMM collective can get behind ;)
Tune in, team up and let's turn the tide.
Team BRiMM
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FROM THE COLLECTIVE
Charlotte spotted this Lottozero open call for any textile wizards out there
Rebecca discovered DJ Auntie Flo and the amazing music he makes from mushrooms 🍄
Sarah recommended OurBike.co.uk, a South London cargo bike share she rates We love sharing what our collective is digging. Send your finds to Becky
All the fun and thrills of fashion can exist within a zero-waste framework. One brand that backs up this claim is CDLM, Chris Peters’ craft-project-meets-label, born during lockdown when the New York designer had time to create entirely fresh pieces from his vast textiles and accessories archive.
In the little Japanese town of Kamikatsu, a 2020-opened zero-waste centre crafted from eclectic reclaimed items has both revived community spirit and become a destination in itself. Then, a couple of summers ago, tiny Tilos in Greece became the world’s only zero-waste island. How? Through education, steely local efforts and the latest tech. Polygreen, the company behind the shift, is now eyeing Abu Dhabi to become the first zero-waste city by 2030.
Neo-Indian Haoma in Bangkok is zero-waste, Thailand’s first urban farm, and has Michelin and Green Michelin Stars. Back in the UK, these six waste-free spots span from Scotland to Cornwall. Fallow, a London destination founded by two former chefs of Dinner by Heston Blumenthal, is also worth noting for its focus on minimising waste. But the real trailblazer in class is Silo, the Hackney Wick venue that succeeds in making zero-waste… sexy? Go to see what we mean.
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YOYO DIETING THAT'S GOOD FOR YOU
As well as visiting London and the UK’s increasing number of zero-waste top-up stores, an even easier way to pit your pounds against single-use anything is by signing up for thoughtful services such as the Modern Milkman, which delivers milk and groceries from independent suppliers in reusable packaging, or Yoyo, which drops plant-based foods, also in returnable packing – and even supplies some Michelin-star restaurants.
When life gives you oranges… you make a zero-waste orange cake, obvs. We don’t normally share recipes that are also on our ‘sletter’s theme, but this one from Mr Spicy Moustache is so good we had to let you in on it.
MUSIC FOR CLIMATE OPTIMISTS
Tash and Sophie of Sweaty Ceilings – an awesome book project to celebrate London’s landmark independent music venues – have shared this bouncy, angsty ball of tunes.
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