There are more and more shops that offer unwrapped groceries in order to avoid environmentally unfriendly waste. Image source: Shutterstock (#110074124 ).
As a response to concerns about plastic pollution and food waste, package-free shops have opened across the world from Copenhagen to Montreal. Unsatisfied with the response to the climate change emergency by governments and businesses, a fast-growing group of individuals is taking matters into its own hands. “When people change their behaviours, and they start demanding something different, then companies will need to change,” Ingrid Caldironi, owner of a zero-waste store, says.
According to researchers, humans have produced more than 8 billion tons of plastic since the 1950s, less of 10 percent of which is recycled
“Recycling is not the solution to our environmental problems, Bea Johnson, whose family is living nearly waste-free, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in a phone interview. “It depends on way too many factors to be efficient.” Her rules? Refuse what you do not need, reduce what you own, reuse items instead of buying disposables, recycle only what you cannot refuse, reduce or reuse, and compost the rest.
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