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Yes I'd love to have a place like this closer than Hetu. As others have said I'd use it for loose foods and for refills of toiletries and laundry / household cleaners.


There are also some other things like deodorant (in cardboard) and makeup without plastic that it would be great to be able to get locally.

I would absolutely love a place like this locally, bring your own tub/ jar type of places. I know the nearest shops like that around here are quite limited in what they stock, so you end up visiting a fair few for one weekly shop. It would be great to have under one roof household items and whole/dried foods without the unnecessary packaging.

"London's first zero waste store" food for thought... https://www.treehugger.com/green-home/visit-londons-first-zero-waste-store.html


I would like to see reasonably priced coconut milk/oil, kafir lime leaves in bulk, (shiitake) mushrooms dried. Perhaps Chinese tea gojiberries or another superfood.


Flux

Sure. There are two places:


Karavan Eco (opposite Mrs Robinsons) does Ecover cleaners in bottles or refills if you take a container. We get handsoap and washing up liquid from them.


Health Matters (almost opposite Coop) does laundry detergent though I can't remember the name of the brand.

I'd be really interested in a zero waste shop locally....

I've been trying to buy as much as I can plastic free - taking my own containers to the butchers etc... Sainsbury were OK about me re-using one of their deli plastic pots which I took with me, and wanted olives....

On Inside Out last night they mentioned a zero waste shop in Battersea - I think it was this one...


http://www.hetu.co.uk


I've also bought a few products form this great website - https://andkeep.com - plastic free cotton buds (which come in a cute paper box) and some Beeswax wraps, which are brilliant... I believe Karavan Eco also sell the wraps...


Do keep us updated if this shop happens!

AllyCat Wrote:

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> I've also bought a few products form this great

> website - https://andkeep.com - plastic free

> cotton buds (which come in a cute paper box) and

> some Beeswax wraps, which are brilliant...



Thank you for that, I wasn't aware of that website.


Does anybody know of a non-plastic substitute for freezer storage? I wash and re-use bags and containers as much as I can, but I'd prefer some other method.

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It is great that there is so many people in our area actually seeing the problem and willing to do something about it.

2 Girls Caf? at 24 Peckham Rye just announced that they will start a zero waste shop in their caf? in a few weeks time so we can all start buying locally organic produce with no packaging! Let's make the difference!


https://www.facebook.com/2girlscafe/?hc_ref=ARQ6eCVMQagaUyCA5Mum-hRwhzOQjhmQkWI8M66THvgQygF75GayCd6-vThjt6QHUhQ&fref=nf


Karavan sells bamboo lunch boxes with an elasticated band (which, to be fair, loses its tautness over time). Pret give you 50p off your hot drink if you use your own cup/mug, so that makes it 49p! I think, though, that a tax on single-use plastics or plastic-based products alongside a deposit scheme is needed to really change things.
Zero packaging would be inconvenient but zero plastic would be great. Or 100% biodegradable packaging. I hate how quickly my bins fill with unrecyclable landfill. Packaging that can be composted would be fine, would fully support it as I'm sure lots of people would.

Leave the packaging behind at the supermarket to dispose off.


Try buying products not wrapped in plastic, look for items in boxes, try not to use so many plastic bags when buying fruit and veg, or buy from the greengrocers who put everything in brown paper bags. Ask the butcher to wrap in paper rather in plastic bags.

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