Outside of the city of Semarang, in Central Java, Indonesia, there is a small but very distinctive restaurant called 'Biogas', located at the Jatiba Barangay Garbage Land, using plastic trash for meals, Meal people provide three meals.
The restaurant offers meals between 0.4 and 0.8 U.S. dollars, including fried catfish with rice, vegetable soup, poached egg with rice and other local traditional home-cooked food, etc. The restaurant does not accept cash, and diners According to the restaurant's pricing, 20 kilos of plastic garbage can be converted into about 0.6 US dollars (3.98 yuan), enough to eat a meal.
They run the biogas restaurant Salimou and the Suatme couple, before they opened the restaurant in January 2016 for about 40 years, according to a report by the U.S. Trolltech Press on the 16th. Thinking of starting such a 'junk food-for-change' restaurant is Agus Judetti, Garbage Barn former landfill manager, in May 2014, the Mayor of Semarang demanded to reduce the amount of plastic junk in Garibaldi's landfill , So that non-degradable plastic products are reused. Later, the landfill was destroyed due to fire caused more than 40,000 square meters of land was destroyed. 'Biogas canteen' was established for Surminam and Suatme couple, the restaurant guests They also bring them more plastic waste, so that their sales of waste than doubled from the original, up to 15 US dollars a day (99 yuan).
Surminam said: 'I am very happy to see that my guests like their meals here, and even the poor have the right to a healthy diet and I try my best to provide them such opportunities.'