Taste The Waste Café is a collaboration between No Waste Army, known for their fight against food waste, and Recycling Company The Location. Together they create a warm meeting place where circularity does not feel abstract, but rather tangible, cozy and accessible. No pedantic sustainability, but a place where you especially want to linger.
From the moment visitors step inside, everything is about reuse and experience. The coffee from Moyee Coffee for example, is served in self-selected second-hand mugs. At long tables, conversations develop about creativity, consumption and how small choices can make a big difference. Throughout the café, materials and products are given a second life - from furniture and tableware to clothing and food.
One of the most striking parts of the café revolves around a huge amount of saved celeriac. Farmer Reinier Stoutjesdijk of JS Agro enlisted the help of No Waste Army to save as much as 400,000 pounds of this vegetable from going to waste. At the café, visitors can taste the celeriac directly in freshly baked vegetable cake or take it with them in a second-hand bag from the thrift store.
“By tasting, making and experiencing, circularity not only becomes visible, but also something you want to be a part of right away.”
Fashion and repair also play an important role within the concept. At the clothing rack of This Is Free Fashion visitors can pick out second-hand garments, while at the repair bar small repairs are performed live. In this way, Taste The Waste Café shows that sustainability is not about perfection, but rather about being smarter about what is already there.
The circular café also marks the festive kickoff of the Week Without Waste 2026, which will subsequently take place throughout the Netherlands. According to initiator Elisah Pals the event is all about experience and discovery. Not with complicated rules, but by simply tasting how fun a waste-free life can actually be.
Taste The Waste Café thus proves that sustainability anno 2026 is not only necessary, but above all social, creative and surprisingly cozy.