Plastic Free Shopping / Zero Waste Living
Plastic pollution has become one of the world’s most pressing environmental issues, as rapidly increasing production of disposable plastic products & their packaging overwhelms the world’s ability to deal with them. Recent and ongoing media coverage and debate surrounding plastic pollution, climate change and the increasing threat that industry poses on natural life on earth (and human health) has made the whole world increasingly aware of the effects that plastic and microplastic pollution.
Despite being ever more aware, the vast majority of the UK population does not yet benefit from the luxury of choice (plastic free or not) when purchasing everyday groceries and consumables. Currently for individual people to make a small difference it takes a big effort. At New Leaf our aim is to make it a very small effort for an individual to make a huge difference.
New Leaf – is a local store where our goal is to allow customers to buy all of their daily or weekly groceries and household essentials, but where plastic packaging is a thing of the past and in most cases so is packaging full stop.
We source our carefully selected products from like minded local suppliers where packaging is minimised or eliminated and always reused or recycled. Customers dispense individually desired amounts of every day products in to their own containers which are re-used over and over. Local supply also minimises the carbon footprint of the goods we sell.