Greenhouse: Joost’s Garden-Wrapped Waste Free Shipping Container Restaurant Comes to Sydney

A waste free restaurant? Impossible you say? Not when built by artist <a href="http://inhabitat.com/green-your-walls-with-schiavello-vertical-gardens/">Joost Bakker</a>, who designed the <a href="http://inhabitat.com/london-pop-up-restaurant-built-from-borrowed-materials/" target="_blank">pop-up restaurant</a> in reverse to ensure that there would be no trash, that everything is recycled or composted and the entire building can be dismantled, recycled or reused. An impressive feat to say the least, the green eatery features a completely local, organic and seasonal menu, some of which is grown right on the roof of the shipping container and strawbale building. <a href="http://greenhousebyjoost.com/" target="_blank">Greenhouse by Joost</a> opened only a few weeks ago at Cambells Cove and will be open until the end of March.

The eco restaurant was designed specifically to be a traveling show that could be packed up into shipping containers.

Everything fits inside the containers including building structure, stairs for the rooftop access, kitchen, bathroom, bar, furniture and staff change rooms.

Strawbales are used to insulate some of the walls and the interior is decorated in writing that explains the zero waste policies of the restaurant.

A rooftop garden will grow some of the restaurant's herbs and veggies, while cooking oil powers a generator.

Joost wasn't kidding when he meant zero waste either. Literally, nothing goes to waste.

All organic matter, including flatware, is composted for the rooftop garden.

Wine and beer likewise are delivered and served from kegs or barrels.

Strawberries are planted in containers covering the walls.

All organic matter, including flatware, is composted for the rooftop garden.

Food is sourced seasonally from local farmers, delivered in whole form and processed on site.

For example, a wheat farmer brings fresh grains to the restaurant each week, where they are then ground to the desired meal.

Water is collected on site and the toilets are super water efficient and feature a mini-sink that fills the tank for the next flush.

Cambells Cove in Sydney is the first stop of Greenhouse by Joost on its international tour. The restaurant will close at the end of March, pack up and head over to Milan for the International Furniture Fair before hitting other major European cities.