Each week we highlight restaurants demonstrating truth and love with amazing, inspiring and selfless acts that make the world just that little bit better.

1. Rabbit (UK): London-based restaurant Rabbit has a zero-waste policy that ensures all produce and by-produce is given a second use. They also deliver coffee grinds to their Sussex vegetable farmer to use as compost.

2. Brushland Eating House (USA, pictured): This Catskills Mountains restaurant celebrates seasonal produce, which is sourced from local farmers and markets or harvested from one of their twelve on-site garden beds. All food waste goes into their backyard compost, which is then turned into soil for the following year’s garden beds.

3. Atlas Dining (Australia): South Yarra local Atlas Dining provides its meat and fish suppliers with reusable containers, preventing fifteen cardboard boxes and a large cardboard box full of soft plastics from going into landfill each week.

4. Semproniana (Spain): Semproniana reduces food waste by offering small, medium and large meal sizes, and hosting a twice-yearly dinner featuring foods that have been removed from the food chain or are about to expire.

5. Bocca di Lupa (Australia): This restaurant’s building is constructed from reused shipping containers, and all water used on-site – both within the restaurant and for the irrigation of the landscaped gardens surrounding the building – is harvested rainwater collected on-site.

6. Stacked Sandwich Shop (USA): Gabriel Pascuzzi’s Portland, Oregan sandwich shop uses an electronic vehicle for running errands and delivering catering orders. As a Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) certified building, all of the restaurant’s machines are high efficiency and low impact, and all lighting is LED.