(ANSA) - Milan, October 7 - A beer made from recycled bread
was presented at the pavilion of Milan newspaper Corriere della
Sera at Expo on Wednesday.
Babylone is a product of the recently established Belgian
Beer Project (BBP), which has recycled over six tonnes of bread
in six months.
"Babylone is in its own way a unique Brussels invention
that meets a present-day universal social challenge, that of
waste," said Sebastien Morvan and Olivier Da Brauwere of BBP.
Bread accounts for around 12% of all food waste according
to statistics.
BBP has enabled "the transformation of a social problem
into a resource, bringing various actors together", Morvan and
Da Brauwere continued.
One year of research and development was needed to come up
with a recipe that best combined the bread and the malted
barley.
The brewery is located in the Dansaert/Canale
neighbourhood of Brussels, where BBP director Marion Lemesne
said it is acting as an "economic locomotive" for the area.