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No bags or packages at zero-waste grocers in Montreal

dans Waste Management par
Méga Vrac

At the beginning of the previous century, around 1925, consumers were buying food at the grocery’s store or butcher’s with their own containers. We are currently witnessing a return to these practices with Montreal’s zero-waste grocery stores. (Article inspired from Le Devoir, published on November 7, 2016)
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My RestoBox: the zero-waste delivery

dans Sustainable economy par

my_resto English

Exit disposable packaging but not the quality or the service. My RestoBox has the ambition to offer the same services as in the restaurant, but at home and responsibly.

My RestoBox is a home meal delivery company on the principle of « zero waste ». According to its President Patrice Faye, “packaging can represent 10% of turnover in the home delivery sector. It is an economic and environmental disaster.”

The homemade dishes from quality products are delivered with 100% run electric vehicles in returnable and reusable boxes. At the end of your meal, you can even alert the server, by sending a message, for them to come and get rid of the box in a few minutes.

Sustainable and connected economy

My RestoBox is also a human-oriented project since it pursued a policy favouring the integration of people in difficulty allowing them to get some money and the possibility to donate to associations working against hunger in the world.

Many inhabitants of Lille are already seduced by this innovative concept; in participating in the Third Industrial Revolution in Nord-Pas-de-Calais – Picardie, based on sustainable and connected economy.

‘Green’ pavers manufactured from plastic waste in Cameroon

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« The first time my friends saw me rummaging through a trash can, they thought I was going crazy, recalls  Robert Tedonfo. They ran to tell my aunt to check with her own eyes. » Patiently, the young man, aged 26, will attempt to explain what it does: collect packaging and plastic bottles in the trash of Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon, to make « green » paving stones, useful for the construction of roads and houses. Poursuivre…

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