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Ah man, the problem is coming to light here too. Canada is having the same issue with plastic going to landfill rather than being recycled. Hopefully there will soon become more bulk buying options here too. It's not caught on as norm yet though. It's nice your city has got up to speed already! Mmmmm, always fairtrade organic chocolate 😊

I've heard a local wholefoods store advertising on local radio here on Hobart, but have not yet had (made) time to check them out.  Currently my empty jars are repurposed by a local florist, so they don't wind up in glass stockpiles or landfill.

We're also able to send our milk and soft drink bottle lids off for re-use - https://steemit.com/actnearn/@sparkesy43/when-saving-the-environment-can-change-a-child-s-life

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My country is totally a garbage bin for all waste in the world 😂😂 while the massive campaigns against plastic also supported by the government.. still plastic manufactures exist. While I do my best to bring my own shopping bag and sometimes my own food containers anywhere, some people still show funny face and what makes me LOL is a friend I know who talks about saving the earth and green living, still use many plastic bags when she brought things to my house😂😂

I still use plastic sheet as a layer to dry my sweetened bilimbi, can't use banana leaves because it will change the taste. But I agree with you.. the simple thing we can do is to refuse the plastic overruled our life.

We've been at the point where the yellow bin gets much fuller than the red one for a long time now. I wish they picked up the recycling every week instead of once a fortnight.

#teamaustralia

I go nuts with all this wasteful packaging, plastic everywhere, and this stuff never goes away. I have been re-using and re-purposing stuff all my life. Almost every piece of furniture in my home was refinished and reused. I never go any where without my cloth sacks, NO PLASTIC PLEASE. I am fortunate enough to have my own well water, I drink from the tap, not a plastic bottle. I could go on and on. I never would buy those lunch boxes, my kids didn't like the paper bags for their lunch, not cool enough. But now that they are grown, they get it. They know now why mom did what she did.

Totally agree. I grew up being taught about the importance of recycling and I feel like people use it as an excuse to 'feel good about themselves' but the system is now broken. There is too much of it, we don't bother to recycle properly and what's sold as recyclable just isn't. We've seen a similar start to bulk shops here in England but everyone thinks they are expensive, and well, they are. But their popularity should rise and people who can afford the privilege, use them. My opinion of recycling is to just use less and recycle less, where you can.

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I prefer to buy in bulk. I think I will even switch to loose tea since I read that the tea bags shed micro plastic.
But here’s my problem.  About the only places that sell in bulk around here are places like Whole Food. Unfortunately their prices are so much higher than where we usually shop, I can’t justify shopping there.

Yep! That's a big one! Forget about the recycling just REFUSE all those plastics and packaging!

I've been buying in bulk for decades . . . when possible. 

We have a wonderful small health food store, about half an hour north of us, where I buy virtually all my herbs . . . they are at the very least non-GMO and non-chemically grown, and at best organic. 

Being roughly in the middle of nowhere, they're pretty much the only game in town.

And, they are typically a fraction of the cost of those in the supermarket, especially as I am buying in larger quantities. They also have a small selection of dried seeds, beans and grains, and a few prepared mixes.

We create very little waste, as we compost all organic waste, burn our paper waste, and recycle everything else possible, and we are fortunate that our local recycling center is only about five minutes from home. 

Being in a rural area on acreage, there is no curbside pickup available. 

That said, as much as I'd love to refuse all plastic, I'm not there yet, but I do recycle what I bring home.

And I'm a canning jar junkie. Our kitchen has all manner of dried legumes, grains, seeds, herbs, spices and other foods in canning jars, large and small. 

We also have a vacuum sealer, but it gets far less use than it should.

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What intrigues me about these "new" stores is the lack of product information.  Is buying a B grade chemical product better if it's in your own recycled glass jar?  How do you KNOW that chocolate is fair trade and where exactly is all that information displayed.  The few zero-waste stores opened up here in Thailand don't sadly display that information well and are selling bulk at the expense of quality.  

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