Aladdin Charni

From trash to haute cuisine--the ingredients of these servings of white bean and lentil salad with oranges and mint had been headed to the dumpster at a wholesale market before they were slavaged by the staff of Paris' Freegan Pony restaurant.

At this Paris restaurant, ‘freegans’ fight waste by cooking up food diverted from the dumpster

Environment

Researchers figure that roughly a third of all the food we produce is never eaten. In Paris, a new restaurant is taking a small slice out of all that waste by salvaging discarded food from a local market, cooking it up into fine cuisine, and serving it on a “pay-what-you-can” basis to a clientele that includes some of the city’s neediest residents.