Recycling philosophy - at the height of fashion in Finland. Food from waste, trash interiors, garbage dresses. The concept of waste-free consumption is so popular that from the outside it even looks like insanity. Parliamentarians wear recycled clothes, expensive restaurants prepare dishes from waste, the military experiment with urine. The correspondent of "City 812" visited a trendy restaurant and tried a delicacy from the remains of a rabbit and last year's cabbage. On non-waste trends - on personal experience.
Wandering scooters
I will start all the same not with a wasteless rabbit, but with wandering scooters. This is one of the most popular modes of transport in Helsinki, because it is waste-free. The electric scooter can be rented anywhere - on the street, in the public garden, at the cinema - and can also be left anywhere. Scooters are not fastened, are not protected by anyone, there is no special parking. They just stand everywhere. The lease scheme is as follows: I saw - I took - I paid for it via my mobile phone - I went - I left it.
Scooters are equipped with GPS beacons, which allows them not to get lost and protects against thieves. Before you start a trip, you need to register in the mobile application. The device is activated by scanning a QR code printed on a scooter from a smartphone. Two-wheeled vehicles are collected and charged at night by employees of the Voi company that provides the service. The cost of using a scooter for the season (from April to October) is 30 euros.
In some cities of Russia, including Kazan, Stavropol and Moscow, there are similar rental services, but not so advanced. In domestic services, scooters need to be taken at special parking lots and returned to parking.
Waste-free rabbit
"Restaurants closed loop" - a new trend. The main idea is to save natural resources and wastelessness.
“A closed loop means that we don’t throw anything away,” explains the owner of Ultima restaurant. - Customers literally see their future food growing.
The interior of the institution corresponds to the concept. Decor of broken dishes and scrap metal. In containers on the walls and windows in several floors grow herbs, herbs, lettuce. Potatoes are planted in the pipes, and insects like cockroaches move in the chandeliers.
“These are crickets,” the owner reassures. - We use them in our dishes. But we don’t eat these specifically, these are pets.
Crickets feed on plant debris (scraps?), Which reduces food waste. All greens and vegetables in the restaurant are grown by the method of hydroponics, which saves water consumption by 95%.
In the evening on a weekday, all the tables in the restaurant are occupied. Tablecloths and napkins on the tables are not - in order to care about nature. A dinner with wine costs about 100 euros per person. Finns come there to eat, tourists - to wonder.
I tried a rabbit liver emulsion, local mushrooms, fish taimen in last year's cabbage, tartare from a Finnish forest cow.
Portions, as it should be in expensive restaurants, are tiny. The rabbit is yellow, the cabbage is gray, the mushrooms are pink, the tartar is red. Everything was delicious, except for last year's cabbage and wiry cow.
Finns believe that such restaurants have a future. If food is produced where it is eaten, then many of the problems associated with climate change will be solved, they believe.
Experiments "inedible to edible" are spread throughout Finland. There is, for example, know-how on growing mushrooms in the coffee grounds.
Perhaps the most impressive project involved the attempt to use nutrients from urine and feces (MORTTI). He is tested in military barracks - together with the Finnish defense forces - the Finnish Environment Institute and the University of Applied Sciences of Tampere.
Nothing useless
In the pilot department of Bioruukki, the VTT State Research Center are experimenting with recycling waste into something useful. For example, they try to extract phosphorus from chicken manure, from mobile phones - gas fuel, from ash - metal, and so on. The goal is to debug new technologies and put them on the market.
In Bioruukki, they learned how to restore fabric from recycled materials and have already sewed a dress from a waste for a member of the Finnish parliament. A parliamentarian put it on a reception on the occasion of Independence Day.
Only 1% of waste in Finland is buried at landfills, 58% is burned to produce energy, 41% is reused.
The Bioruukki delegation was in St. Petersburg several times. Finns say they notice a great interest from Russian investors.
Source: http://gorod-812.ru/mozhno-li-vkusno-poest-iz-othodov/
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