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Imagine a supermarket where there is no disposablepackaging. There are no shelves lined with single use boxes orplastic containers. Instead shelves hold products ready fordispensing into reusable containers.

“Zero waste market”, image courtesy of SFU UniversityCommunications on Flickr under license CC BY 2.0

This may seem like a far cry from the debates Americans haveover banning single use bags but these zero-waste

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supermarkets are slowly becoming a reality. OriginalUnverpackt opened in Germany in 2014, selling some 350products including produce, dry grains and dairy such asyogurt. All ready for customers to place into reusablecontainers. A similar zero-packaging supermarket is set toopen in Copenhagen this summer and another hopes to openby the end of the year in Vancouver.

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Bea Johnson, author of Zero Waste Home, is one of a growingnumber of people around the world paying attention to thecrazy amount of waste involved in our daily lives and in ourfood supply. Food and the packaging containers it comes inaccount for as much as 45 percent of the materials in USlandfills. They waste energy and resources, generategreenhouse gases and contribute to the growing problem ofplastics in the oceans.

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Recycling was once thought of as the answer, but more than30 years after the first mandated curbside recycling in the US,the practice has yet to widely catch on in any substantial way.Americans still only recycle 51 percent of food packaging andless than 14 percent of plastic packaging.

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A zero-waste lifestyle like the one Johnson leads and zerowaste supermarkets are attempting to stop the waste problembefore it starts. Micro grocer In.gredients in Austin opened in2012 and at least one more zero-waste US supermarket is inthe planning stages. In general, prices at these supermarketstend to be similar to those in a traditional market, and thefill-your-own container can prevent both food waste and savecustomers money as they only buy what they need.

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“The zero waste lifestyle does not cost more: it saves us 40percent on our overall spending! It does not take more time:voluntary simplicity has allowed for our housework andprofessional work to be more efficient (what we do not own,does not need to be bought, stored, cleaned, maintained,repaired, replaced, recycled, etc.),” Johnson said.

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Although the zero-waste lifestyle is not for everyone, the riseof zero-waste supermarkets or even adapting a zero-wasteshopping style have the potential to dramatically improve thefood system, the environment and maybe even our overallquality of life.

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