So-called "rag-pickers" in Paris in the 1880s never wasted any bread scraps - they ate any clean bread they were given or sold it on to tradespeople, and used dirty bread to feed animals or as breadcrumbs that were sold back to restaurants.
The idea for brewing beer from bread scraps actually goes all the way back to ancient Mesopotamia, where beer was made from old bread.
Originally it was a humble peasant treat on bread-baking day, made from a scrap of bread dough and baked on the stone floor of a village's wood-fired oven.
Stuart was inspired more recently by the Brussels Beer Project in Belgium, which released a beer in 2015 that was brewed using scrap bread.
Suttles created a series of roses using scrap bread from the lunch room grafted onto dowels with acrylic paint; one of the flowers is a massive 20-footer that he hopes could be displayed in outdoor spaces to remind people of the potential beauty and value in who and what they discard.
Earlier this year sales tax was increased and bread subsidies were scrapped as part of a plan to cut the country's debt.
Worms eat fruit and vegetable scraps; bread and other grains; tea leaves; coffee grounds; and egg shells.
Not because of the daily massacres, the Scud missiles or the Mig helicopters; nor because of Syria's transformation into a hell on earth, where people die every day as they wait in line for a scrap of bread, where Assad's aircraft bombard the bread ovens so that the people will starve.
The prisoners fight over scraps of bread, and only one, a frail, saintly figure played by Emmanuelle Riva of Alain Resnais's "Hiroshima, Mon Amour," seems capable of feeling shame and compassion, and inevitably kills herself.
The children were fed a scrap of bread, and then set about begging.
All she wanted was a better quality of life for the 14,000 people of her home town, a place of cattle-raising in thorny chaparral amid dense tropical forest; to pull the place out of its neglect, in which most people "have to tear their souls apart every day to get a scrap of bread for their children".
