Shoppers can bring containers from home to fill up or purchase containers to reuse.

Waste360 Staff, Staff

September 18, 2018

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Grocery Store Free of Plastic Packaging Opens in U.K.

A grocery store that is completely free of plastic packaging recently opened in Ramsbottom, England.

The shop, Fulfilled, was opened by 26-year-old entrepreneur Abbie Sellers and offers nuts, fresh fruit and vegetables, specialty snacks like wasabi peas and household cleaning products.

Customers can bring containers from home to fill up or purchase containers in-store to reuse. Similar concepts have launched in areas like Spain, France and Austria. 

Metro UK has more details:

Abbie Sellers had been trying to reduce her own plastic use for a while.

After a degree in conservation biology, the subject of waste reduction was naturally enough on her mind.

But with supermarkets still insisting on packaging nearly every individual grape, it’s hard for consumers to take the initiative to cut it out.

Abbie decided to open her very own produce shop without any plastic waste where you could buy food in the amount you actually need.

Read the full article here.

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