No packaging or plastic bags at this store? It's a 'zero-waste' shop

London

WHEN Ingrid Caldironi decided to start living a more eco-friendly lifestyle, she made a few changes to her routine. She bought a reusable coffee cup, started making her own beauty products and tried to stop buying packaged products. But she soon hit a wall.

Most British supermarkets sell few unpackaged products, and she was spending most of her weekends roaming London in search of loose vegetables and bulk coffee.

So she decided to open her own shop - the only "zero waste" store in London, which sells food in bulk, products made out of waste and durable alternatives to typical throwaway products such as plastic cutlery, razors and sponges.

"I want to help people understand that it's not difficult to be sustainable," Ms Caldironi told the Thomson Reuters Foundation at her store, Bulk Market, in east London. "When people change their behaviours, and they start demanding something different…