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The Guardian // World // Europe

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

Friday 13th June 2025, 9:00AM

Baldío in Mexico City is part of a new wave of restaurants embracing a regenerative ethos – with delicious resultsHunched 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.” Continue reading...

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