Lucy: My plastic free journey

Meeting our customers is one of the best parts of our jobs! We are always inspired by their efforts to go plastic free and love hearing their journeys of how they came to start shopping plastic free and we thought you might do too! It is always inspiring to hear from others and in this brave new world of zero waste and plastic free its great to pick up hints and tips from each other and feel part of a wider community that together will make great change!

Lucy has been a customer of ours since we started. She’s a real plastic free hero and hunts down the van for refills at a number of our locations as well as occasionally ordering a plastic free delivery when she can’t get to us!

Here’s her story:

My 11 year old son inspired me to start shopping package free. He wanted us to do 1 month plastic free one summer holiday as he’d learnt about plastic waste at school and we’ve been doing it ever since! My top advice would be to shop around to begin with and to rethink your usual shop. I went from 1x Tesco delivery a week to now being plastic free. Walk up and down the aisles and make notes of products to swap out for plastic free. Go into shops you would never usually go into, you’ll be amazed at what you’ll find. We love being able to bulk buy rice, pasta and noodles from the van and not be restricted from the usual small packets at the supermarket. My top tip for living with less impact on the planet would be to reuse everything! So much more can be refilled than you think - shampoo, olive oil etc. Be brash in supermarkets, say you’ll only buy it in plastic free packaging!