Delivery
Could the trend towards delivered groceries make a zero-waste, plastic-free lifestyle easier? Zero Grocery in San Francisco thinks it can. They deliver food in reusable (mostly glass) containers, which are picked up with the next delivery. To people of a certain age, this will not seem strange at all. It is how milk used to be delivered. Concerns about health and hygiene are unfounded. The returned containers are sterilised before reuse and the groceries are handled less on average than the products bought in store. Life cycle assessments may favour plastic packaging, but rather miss the point of zero-waste.
— Wayne Visser
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