Refill Stations!

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Great news! The first refill station has made it's way to Sunderland, and it's our very own! In store we currently have four item's for you to fill your plastic containers with:

- Brown Basmati Rice £2.55 / kg 

- Organic Wholemeal Fusilli Pasta £2.77 / kg (Allergens: Wheat)

- Organic Penne Pasta £2.77 / kg (Allergens: Wheat)

- Crunchy Apricot Muesli £3.43 / kg (Includes Honey, Allergens: Oats, Wheats, Hazelnut, Barley, Sunflower Seeds, Sulphur Dioxide)


Refill stations like ours let you as the customer decide how much of each product you would like, in the process reducing waste. As well as this, you wouldn't have the left over packaging you normally have upon emptying a shop bought product. Supermarkets put over 900,000 tonnes of plastic packaging onto their shelves each year, so through refill stations we are able to reduce plastic waste and littering, in the process helping our wildlife and marine life one step at a time. 

Shops like us are local, stocked with locally produced foods, meaning you are almost buying directly from the source, which also means a reduced carbon footprint. In a survey of more than 2,000 consumers by Which?, 75% were open to buying refillable products, so if you're in the area, why not start with us! Another poll by Opinium showed that between 65% and 80% of adults, across all ages and incomes, would shop at a refill station if offered. 

While we currently only have four refillable products in store, we also sell these products on our website, and would love to hear back from you as to what you'd like to see in store. Is there a product you would like to buy at a refillable station, letting you decide how much you buy? If so, let us know!

Emma Wallace
Sunderland College

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