Dharath is at the forefront of Zero Waste drinks through Wasteland, known as Thailand’s first sustainable bar with the environment in mind, creating cocktails with surplus ingredients or craft sodas that communicate circularity. His passion for environmental concerns in the food industry was sparked when he was studying for a master’s in Food Studies at New York University, and augmented when he was the environmental manager at Bo.lan restaurant. At Wasteland, he helps handle strategy, communications, conceptualization, and even R&D. He also consults with environmental agencies such as LO-CARB, an environmental consultancy, and Mycelium Gastronomy Network, a global gastronomy innovation network for which he helped co-create a university gastronomy sustainability curriculum. He is proud that the tiny bar he co-founded has evolved, even now without a physical entity, serving to explore multidisciplinary concepts, educating suppliers and consumers about the impact of waste on the planet as well as the food system. He is currently working towards a PhD in Social Innovation and Sustainability, and he hopes his dissertation about Food Literacy will help guide the hospitality industry in the future. He is inspired by Björk and Pablo Neruda.