Waste Archives — The Common Table

Revolution Not Evolution

19. August 2026
14 minute read

German supermarket giant Rewe's all-new timber construction supermarkets come complete with rooftop farms. Klaus Wiens, their head of construction, explains why reconfiguring the future of supermarkets, is the only way forward.

A Taste for Microplastics

17. November 2025
10 minute read

Microplastic pollution expert Dr Sherri Mason talks to The Common Table about the pervasive presence of tiny plastic particles within the planet’s ecosystems and why we are being encouraged to keep adding more, not less, of them to our food and soils.

Urban Fungi Farm

24. July 2024
10 minute read

Food startup expert Eldad Arnon is the co-founder of the gourmet urban mushroom farm Tupu in Berlin. TCT talked to him about the realities of sustainable urban food production and his vision for changing how we produce food.

Waste Not

7. November 2023
8 minute read

Understanding and addressing food waste is a collective process that goes beyond the kitchen. Writer and editor LinYee Yuan looks at some fine dining pioneers working to turn a distasteful subject into a revelatory and inspiring source to awaken both tastebuds and the imagination.

Diet Degrowth

30. September 2023
11 minute read

Sean Roy Parker is part of a movement seeking new connections between food, consumption and digestion. Here he proposes a new "diet degrowth" discourse.

Sustainability by Stealth

24. November 2022
17 minute read

As specialists in food retail and hospitality, architects Holland Harvey's value-led practice is all about teamwork, collaboration and conscious choice. It's an approach that's not just applicable to architecture.

Neurogastronomic Polyphony

31. August 2022
9 minute read

Investigative artist Grace Gloria Denis uses the sound and taste of a meal as both a medium and a pedagogical tool to propose a digestible approach to critical inquiry.