My partner insists we buy groceries from a refillable zero waste shop. It's a total rip off, so I buy cheap stuff from Lidl and bin the packets.
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Maybe the zero waste shop is so expensive because they also buy everything from Lidl and bin the packaging? And that's why partner can't tell the difference?
those shops tend to only sell stuff that's sold by the kilo and comes in near to no packaging
like rice, corn flakes, dry beans, noodles …
meanwhile there's stuff like cheese, baked goods, cheap electronics, beverages… that comes in 10x the plastic per "thing"/"usage"/"average yearly consumption"
worse - basically anything coca cola/pepsico/nestle/danone/P&G/unilever sells, so things people select because of the (crappy) brand on the packaging, tends to be in sum the worst offenders.
those shops will never sell anyhing with brand names
like rice, corn flakes, dry beans, noodles …
meanwhile there's stuff like cheese, baked goods, cheap electronics, beverages… that comes in 10x the plastic per "thing"/"usage"/"average yearly consumption"
worse - basically anything coca cola/pepsico/nestle/danone/P&G/unilever sells, so things people select because of the (crappy) brand on the packaging, tends to be in sum the worst offenders.
those shops will never sell anyhing with brand names
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@fesshole in Edinburgh there is (I hope still) a good workers co op where they sell a lot of their bulk dried goods at cheap prices. There are more expensive things there like the local organic veg however there are often also good deals on whatever needs to go.