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Perhaps an alternative is the "old way". bring your own bottle to be filled with milk / wine / oil. Buy meat from the butcher wrapped in paper. Buy bread fro
by lifeisstillgood 7y ago
Perhaps an alternative is the "old way".
bring your own bottle to be filled with milk / wine / oil.
Buy meat from the butcher wrapped in paper.
Buy bread from a baker wrapped in paper.
I remember that all happening as a child
But that was expensive time consuming and frequently unhygienic
- sefrost 7y agoBringing refillable containers is also being trialled in the UK and seems to be working well, but it’s very early days. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-49183051 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-49183051
- spullara 7y agoYour meat from the butcher isn't wrapped in paper?
- wtallis 7y agoMy local grocery store butcher tends to put meat in a plastic bag, then wrap that in paper.
- test1235 7y agoSame - else meat juices will slowly soak the paper and leak out. My fishmonger does the same.
- lifeisstillgood 7y agofinding a butcher (that is not in a large supermarket) is hard going in urban UK
- have_faith 7y agoI'm on the coast and finding a fish monger is like looking for the diamond in the rough.
- rorykoehler 7y agohttps://original-unverpackt.de/ https://original-unverpackt.de/
- kevingrahl 7y agoI like the idea very much. We have a shop in Hanover, Germany, where I live that sells a lot of groceries without any packaging at all. You just bring your own reusable containers to fill with whatever you need. They have a lot of inventory like pasta, oils, grains, beans, detergents.. They themself buy everything from factories in reusable containers so no waste anywhere.
- thinkcontext 7y agoI'm in a buying club with a bunch of my neighbors. We buy things in bulk, 50lb bags of rice, 5 gallons of oil, etc. We split things up and people bring their own reusable containers. Saves a ton of money and plastic waste, plus get to make neighbors into friends.