Find refill stores in
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Liverpool
Lincoln
leeds
London

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Manchester

What Are Refill Stores?

Bulk buy or refill stores are places you can buy food loose.You take as much as you want/need from a larger container and you can usually use your own packaging.

Packaging
While these shops provide bags and they are almost always plastic ones. You will need to take your own plastic-free and/or reusable bags.

Tare

The weight of the container may make a difference at checkout. Some shops subtract the tare weight but other don’t. The tare weight is the weight of the empty container.

Towns

London read a reveiw here
Leeds read a review here.

Leicester

Leicester now has a zero waste shop
https://zerowasteleicester.co.uk/

Lincoln

Gaia Wholefoods in Lincoln
Central Market
Lincoln, Lincolnshire
07891 370197

Nicola, the proprietor sells whole food that she bags up but is willing to weigh out into your own containers if you give her enough notice.
Thanks to Not Quite A Vegan for that

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Manchester

Village Green Co-op Prestwich

Village Greens is a Community co-operative grocery in Prestwich with fresh, local, organic, affordable produce . For the plastic free amongst us it has some loose, self-service products in dispensers on the wall including
Oats
Muesli base
Chia seeds
Pumpkin seeds
Hemp seeds
Sunflower seeds
Lentils
Brown Rice

I was pleased! Lentils and brown rice which have been off the menu until now. Yay!
There was also paper wrapped butter and milk in glass bottles. Loose , organic veg including some unwrapped lettuce.
Loose soaps, health care and Natura menstrual products.
Plus some cocoa from Suma that I have to investigate. And really good fresh bread.
They do Ecover refills you have to ask at the counter

Well worth a visit.

Check out the photo album on Facebook

Milk

Find A Milk Delivery Service With Glass BottlesHere

Supermarkets

Sometimes supermarkets can surprise you – check out the plastic-free and reduced packaging products here.

Help Me

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