“The best packaging is the one you don’t produce,” says Nathan Dufour, who leads efforts to promote reuse systems at the campaign group Zero Waste Europe. If you need to use it – for hygiene reasons, say – “then that packaging needs to stay in the loop for as long as possible”.
In the Netherlands and Belgium we have Pieter Pot, where you buy your stuff in glass jars and return them at the next delivery. You get the cost of the jar back upon return as shop credit, minus a few cents for cleaning and such. Actually not much more expensive than your generic supermarket.
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“The best packaging is the one you don’t produce,” says Nathan Dufour, who leads efforts to promote reuse systems at the campaign group Zero Waste Europe. If you need to use it – for hygiene reasons, say – “then that packaging needs to stay in the loop for as long as possible”.
In the Netherlands and Belgium we have Pieter Pot, where you buy your stuff in glass jars and return them at the next delivery. You get the cost of the jar back upon return as shop credit, minus a few cents for cleaning and such. Actually not much more expensive than your generic supermarket.