ONE of Scotland’s largest “zero waste” supermarkets has opened in the capital – complete with a peanut butter maker, milk tap and kombucha vending machine.
Locavore opened their superstore in Dalry, Edinburgh yesterday, promising to reduce both food and packaging waste.
The organisation is a social enterprise set up to “build a more sustainable local food system which is better for our local economy, the environment and our communities”.
The new store offers quirky novelties not found at typical supermarkets such as a milk tap station, peanut butter maker and a kombucha vending machine.
And the store itself runs on a refillable system where customers can bring their own jars to fill with pulses, grains, pastas, flours, herbs and spices.
The “fill your own” dispenser system, reminiscent of pick ‘n’ mix areas at cinemas, is also available for household items such as shampoo and washing up liquid.
Plastic packaging is avoided and their organic fruit and vegetable range is package free but available to collect using paper bags.
To avoid throwing out any food that goes past its best by date, the company uses these foods in their on-site kitchen to make soups and freezable ready meals to sell.
The initiative is funded by Zero Waste Scotland who are a Scottish Government funded organisation working to reduce waste in Scotland. Zero Waste Scotland has previously reported that sending just a single kilogram of food waste to landfill produces the same carbon emissions as 25,000 500ml plastic bottles.
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