Questão de Língua Inglesa

‘It’s the only way to combat singleuse plastics’: Birmingham’s zerowaste supermarket Zerowaste shopping promises to cut down on wasteful p ackaging and eradicate singleuse plastics from the weekly grocery shop. But can we really be weaned off our addiction to the ease a nd convenience offered by traditional supermarkets, with their pots of chilled products and plasticwrapped packs of fruit? Jeanette Wong and partner Tom Pell think we can. In June 2018, they opened the Clean Kilo, a zerowaste vegetarian supermarket in Digbeth, Birmingham where shoppers buy in bulk, bringing in their own containers and filling the m with everything from rice, pulses and pasta to yoghurt, butter and milk. The idea is to keep packaging to a minimum, so ev erything is scoopable, pourable and refillable. You c an squeeze your own orange juice, get ice-cream in cones and find a selection of fresh fruit and vegetab les. There are ecofriendly cleaning products and personal care items. Moisturiser and body wash are sourced locally from nearby Bournville, and the contents of the fivelitre containers can be pumped into shoppers’ vess els. Washing up liquid, detergent and cleaners are dispensed from stainless steel containers into custo mers’ bottles, while laundry and dishwasher powder s are scooped into their containers. There’s not a pi ece of single-use plastic in sight. Fonte: https://www.theguardian.com/productinnovation-with-henkel/2019/sep/24/its-the-onlyway-to-combat-single-use-plastics-birminghamszero-waste-supermarket Acesso em: 08/Out/2019