All across Britain, shops that minimize the environmental impact of humanity's consumer habits are popping up for good.
One of the zero-waste shops that opened a year ago is located in Crickhowell in mid-Wales. The shop offers a variety of products including pasta greens, seeds, dried fruit. All of their products are served from hoppers which effectively avoid the use of plastic packaging.
Consumers do not mind using and reusing battered up squeezy bottles to refill with dishwashing liquid and laundry products. The shop also offers fair trade coffee and chocolate and a wide array of environmentally friendly items including plastic-free dental floss, bamboo toothbrushes and toothbrush holders, and vegan leather snack pouches.
The shop called Natural Weigh is participating in the revolution against plastic pollution. Over 100, possibly almost 200, shops have already spread across the United Kingdom during the past two years. Some of these environmental hotspots include Brighton, Bath, North East London, Bristol, and other areas.
UK's zero wasters are all in touch via social media platforms and reference their own bible, Janssen's book entitled Zero Waste Home.
In March 2018, Chloe and Robin Masefield launch Natural Weigh, Wale's first zero-waste shop. The pair was inspired by the shop they saw in Totnes called Earth.Food.Love, which in turn was Britain's first zero-waste shop.
When a local pub closed up, it was due for redevelopment as a big supermarket. The locals then raised 500,000 pounds to buy the old pub which is now sub-divided into an antique shop, a café, and of course, the zero-waste shop run by Chloe and Robin.
Crickhowell is known for its high street, with its high-quality butcher and two organic greengrocers.
The Masefields the narrates that they had to set aside 40,000 pounds to set the store up. The couple is seeing a positive rate in return of investment as the shop has a steady stream of shoppers that are also concerned about how much waste that humanity has these days.
Although most consumers are regulars in the shop some are still new to the whole zero-waste practice but are willing to try the different products such as those for cleaning, for cooking, and others.
Buyers are satisfied so far with the dishwashing and laundry detergent and are eager to refill their bottles.
Another advantage that this kind of shop has is the lower prices that they offer because plastic packaging has already been eliminated.
