Hey!
I have another idea for a store.
Customers bringing their own containers to buy groceries.
Like @ Wholefood's (and even the Jackson Heights Health Store)...there's a section where you can buy nuts/grains/granola etc...that are kept in bulk.
Well, how about an entire store, beautifully and hygienically designed... with foods in bulk like that...including yogurt, coffee, whatever...with nothing prepackaged and branded...
And folks bring their own containers.
In a way, it's the DE-BRANDING of goods.
And the recycling decreases waste.
A future store like this would borrow from the way things were done in the past...and I believe it would work...if freshness and quality control would be strictly adhered to. And labels on the bulk items were detailed. (like at Wholefood's).
In truth, the store becomes the brand itself. Like Wholefoods managed to make themselves into a "brand".
...I got the idea as I threw away yet another wasted plastic container for yogurt.
abc...I have three comments.
The Sanitation Dept. accepts yogurt containers for recycling.
Plastic & rigid plastic:
Plastic bottles, jugs, and jars
Rigid plastic caps and lids
Rigid plastic food containers (such as yogurt, deli, or hummus containers; dairy tubs, cookie tray inserts, " clamshell " containers, and other plastic take-out containers)
Rigid plastic non-food containers
Rigid plastic packaging (such as " blister-pack " and " clamshell " consumer packaging, acetate boxes)
Rigid plastic housewares (such as flower pots, mixing bowls, and plastic appliances)
Bulk rigid plastic (like crates, buckets, pails, furniture, large toys, and large appliances)
see,
http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/dsny/zerowaste/residents/what-to-recycle-for-residents.shtmlParrott on Queens Blvd. and 46th Street sells refillable olive oil. I think customers may find it potentially messy. At least I do. I would hate to have an accident trying to refill an oily bottle.
Trade Fair sells nuts and olives by the pound. I have noticed on numerous occasions customers dipping their bare hands into the nuts and unabashedly eating them. Irksome.