Why intercept at bringingyour owngrocery bags to the store ? One London grocery wants you to BYO - credit card container . TheLondon even Standardreportsthat a UK chain calledPlanet Organichas partnered withUnpackaged — a company devote to sustainable packaging — to install self - serve bulk - solid food dispensers where customers can fill their own reusable container with dry good , cutting down on fictile packaging dissipation .
To use the organisation , customer take the air up and weigh their empty container at a self - serve station , print and impound a label with itstare weighting . Then , they can fill it with flour , nuts , or other sort of dry goods , weigh it again , and print the price tag before taking it up to the curb out . ( even customers only have to weigh their containers once , since they can save the skin - off recording label to utilize again next time . )
Planet Organic is offering cereals , legumes , grain , nuts , chocolate , dried fruit , and even some cleanup products in majority as part of this computer programme , significantly repress the amount of waste shopper would otherwise be contract home on each grocery store stumble .
Zero - waste grocery computer storage have been pop up in Europe for severalyears . These shops , like Berlin ’s Original Unverpackt , do n’t offer any bags or container , asking customers work their own instead . This strategy also encourages people to grease one’s palms only what they need , which eliminates food for thought waste — there ’s no need to corrupt a full 5 - pound bag of flour if you only want to make one patty .
The concept is alsogaining tractionin North America . The no - packaging food market storein.gredientsopened in Austin , Texas in 2011 . The Brooklyn storePackage Free , opened in 2017 , takes the idea even further , marketing itself as a one - stop shop for " everything that you ’d necessitate to transition to a humbled waste modus vivendi . " It sells everything from lug bags to laundry detergent to dental floss .
[ h / tLondon Evening Standard ]
