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Food waste is a serious issue. For the hospitality industry, there’s mounting tension for bars and restaurants to positively change their food waste footprint. But for industries that are built on delivering premium food and drink experiences using the freshest produce, there’s an inherent paradox that has prevented the industry from inciting lasting change. Until now.

Whiley is challenging bars, restaurants and producers to rethink what they know about waste. His acclaimed London bar, Scout, pioneered the use of hyperlocal and foraged produce, and when launching his most recent venue, Re, in South Eveleigh in Sydney, he’s taking it a step further by creating the world’s first zero-waste bar, literally built on waste. Using his laboratory onsite at Re, Whiley converts by-products from local cafes, restaurants and producers that others would consider imperfect, unfit for service date or straight-up scrap into delicious cocktails and bar snacks.

The film captures the heart and soul of what personally drives Whiley as he tirelessly educates and develops his unique supply chain of waste products and by-products from the daily running of local Sydney businesses. Collaborating with Roni Khan (OzHarvest / Refettorio ), Josh Niland (Saint Peter / Fish Butchery), Dan Ye (Artificer), Shelley Simpson (Mud Ceramics), James Harvey (Yullis Brews), Matteo Pochintesta ( Mapo Gelato), Donato Toce (Gelato Messina) and more.

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In response to the ongoing and devastating attacks on Ukraine, Accept & Proceed is holding an archive sale of Light Calendar screen-prints to raise funds for Kyiv Independent; a news site that continues to bring the world trusted and critical information about the facts on the ground, under the most challenging circumstances. Independent journalism in Ukraine needs our support with this difficult and unpredictable task.

From shedding light on Russian cyberattacks, to bombings and ground invasions, it is hard to predict what the days ahead will bring and what independent journalists will need to do in response. There are reports that Russian government have been blocking independent news outlets and preventing Russians from hearing news of the invasion of Ukraine. Independent journalism is needed more than ever.

The Light Calendar series are a decade long project where we plotted the daylight seen in London throughout the year. We are selling this archive of collectable screen prints in recognition that a darker world - one without access to independent journalism and unheard voices in crisis - is no place we should be in Today. Accept & Proceed will donate 100% of the proceeds from this sale to the Kyiv Independent.

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