Tuesday 19 February 2019

Plastics packaging – a view from retailers

It isn’t just consumers that worry about plastic contamination and the damage it does to wildlife and the environment. Retailers are people too and some of them are even members of Transition Cambridge. But cutting down on plastic is not easy – some of the seemingly easy solutions are not really solutions at all. Here are some thoughts from three of our members: from Jacky, co-owner of the Cambridge Cheese Company and from Paul and Emma who have just started a new business called Full Circle offering zero-waste products (cleaning products in reusable containers, reusable food wraps, coffee cups and so on). You can see Paul at his stall in the market on Mondays.


The Cambridge Cheese Company actively encourages you to bring your own clean jars to use for deli-products like olives.