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Find refill stores in
Horsham
Huddersfield
Hull
Hythe

Horsham!

A surprise discovery on a day trip to Horsham!

Town & Country Weigh is at 7 East Street, Horsham, West Sussex, RH12 1HH.

It has bulk food bins for rice (long grain, short grain, arborio, basmati), dried pulses (e.g. black eyed beans, chickpeas, butter beans, red lentils), flours (including rye flour and potato flour), milk powder, and a wide variety of muesli ingredients.

Thanks to Kake for the above write up. Please, if anyone knows of any more, do add them to the list!

Hull
Heres a new one for the list
Alans Naturally
Health food/scoop and save shop
13 South Street
Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, HU1 3QG

Huddersfield
List of shops and markets here

Hythe

in Kent
I found another Loose Food shop called U Weigh in Hythe in Kent the address is 51 High Street
Hythe, Kent, CT21 5AD Facebook address is https://www.facebook.com/uweigh

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

Loose Food A to Z

Find out if a shop near you sells bulk food loose. This is stuff that that normally comes plastic packaged i.e rice, pasta and salt. And yes these shops do exist in the U.K. There’s just not many of them.
Heres a list of towns with shops selling loose food.

Find A Milk Delivery Service With Glass Bottles Here

Supermarkets

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

Help Me

Please add any shops you know of in the comments below and I will incorporate them into the post.
Links to reviews particularly welcome.
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N.B.

lines changes, products get removed. For more information why not ask the Plastic Is Rubbish FB group for updates. They are a great source of tidbits, personal experience and the latest news. Why not join them and share the plastic free love x

And before you go…

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Coffee

29th November 2016 by Plastic Is Rubbish Posted in 3.1 Food & Drink Tagged 3.1.3 drinks, 3.1.3 Loose Food 2 Comments

I love my morning coffee,
Can’t do with out my brew,
But Lavazzas wrapped in plastic!
So whats a girl to do?

Buy Beans Loose

Done got myself a bean grinder and I buy my coffee beans loose in my own plastic-free packaging

I am extremely lucky in that I can buy (fair trade), coffee beans from the superlative Coffeevolution, Huddersfield, an independent coffee shop, run by the owner. They import their own fair trade beans and roast them themselves. I give them my own bag they give me fresh, loose beans. Happy days.
There are many other good reasons to go to the café. It is not a chain the ambiance is great, and they have home made biscuits stored in glass jars. There are murals on the walls. and they have a great notice board. Smashing.

Loose Food A to Z

Find out if a shop near you sells bulk food loose. This is stuff that that normally comes plastic packaged ie rice, pasta and salt. And yes these shops do exist in the U.K. There’s just not many of them.

Heres a list of towns with shops selling loose food.

Beans from Chains

If you cant get to Huddersfield there’s more plastic free coffee & tea here… including Whittards, are nationwide chain that allow you to take your own packaging.

Supermarkets

Ground Coffee In Compostable Packaging
And as for coffee drinkers, there’s this. “Not sure if this has been shared already but just to flag up Percol ground coffee in home compostable plastic free packaging - I bought it in Waitrose but should be in other supermarkets too”

From their website
“You’ll start to notice the Plastic-Free logo on our new home compostable Ground, Beans and Coffee Bag packaging from November 2018. Like many, we want to do more to reduce the amount of packaging (particularly plastic) we’re using, and as a UK retail brand which sells more than 4 million products a year, we have an important role to play in reducing the impact we are making on our planet”
Read more here

Online

This is an interesting option that allows you to buy basic foods on line plastic free.
You can even use your own produce bags. Read more
HERE
You can buy loose #plasticfree food online including tea. You can even use your own produce bags.

Online MicroRoastery Nottingham

We’re a micro coffee roastery based in Nottingham. We roast all of our coffee in very small batches to order. Our environmental and ethical values guide us in how we run our business. We have a zero waste to landfill policy informs our purchasing decisions and use only 100% recycled and recyclable paper packaging and labels for our coffee. At events when serving hot coffee, we use both ceramic reusable cups and fully compostable takeaway cups.
Website: roastinghouse.co.uk
Twitter: @roasthse
N.B.
This post was written by the contributor and is a Guest Post. We have not tried this product but it sounds great! Would love to see that packaging.

Onward Packaging
Would also like to add that when I contacted on twitter they confirmed that you can order online and they send out in a cardboard envelope.

There’s more plasticfree food and drink listed here along with purchase details

N.B.

Lines changes, products get removed. For more information why not ask the Plastic Is Rubbish FB group for updates. They are a great source of tidbits, personal experience and the latest news. Why not join them and share the plastic free love x

And before you go…

If you have found the #plasticfree information useful, please consider supporting us. It all goes to financing the project (read more here) or

L & M

16th April 2016 by Plastic Is Rubbish Posted in 3.2 Shops & Businesses Tagged 3.1.3 Loose Food Leave a comment

Find refill stores in
L
Liverpool
Lincoln
leeds
London

M
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.