The point about prices in regular supermarkets hits the nail on its head. Moreover, the little profit margin is almost fully allocated to the chains, not the farmers/producers. The chains have so much bargaining power that the farmers make almost no profit. As result, they have such a hard time making the transition to sustainable production as they have so little fat on their bones to invest. In my job (Dutch National Government) we are currently figuring out how to give more bargaining power to farmers along with "true pricing " the products. So amen to those shops like Nada!
Totally true!! Companies like Amazon (the owner of Audible) are hurting local economies, ruining the environment, and exploiting their workers, so that things can be shipped to consumers for pennies! I'm shocked and disappointed about the hypocrisy within this video.
@@annabukiel6890 She probably doesn't know and is just glad to be sponsored by something that doesn't require you to consume material items - also it helps her to stay educated even though she does not have much time for reading. Shelby might not be perfect, but she's quite far from being a hypocrite. None of us knows everything about everything we use, like and therefore promote.
no.. thanks to this pretentious way... we have been doing the same thing in Asia for ever now... and things are cheaper here in this method and not unnecessarily overpriced like in USA in the name of saving the world 🙄😒
Okay the jars donation program is actually really really smart! I hoard so many jars sometimes I don't have enough space. Also love the comment about the margins. The costs we do not see in the back when it comes to grocery stores is not just the monetary costs but the human costs associated to many of low income or even migrant workers that are literally working for close to nothing . Some of the zero waste grocery stores in Toronto have been making adjustments with COVID and i really commend them for the work they are doing
My family is low income and we can't even fathom buying food at a place like this. It sounds good but definitely for the rich and well off. Which is fine, if you have the money go for it, as long as they leave us the cheaper stores so we can eat, too.
It's not your fault, the system is just so f'd. It shouldn't cost so much more to eat healthy and shop sustainably. I've always been a personal responsibility kind of person, but the higher ups/government really need to get their act together and change things .
Some of these places (in the US) have begun to accept EBT (Publicly funded food subsidies). I think these stores are expensive because of the market they compete in and the quality/price ratio they offer. They don't get the leverage of a mega corporation and have to prove freshness at the point of sale as opposed to at consumption. You are more likely to notice a stale almond when you buy it bulk than when you buy a vacuum sealed bag.
I am amazed at how food, something so simple and essential, has become so complicated, cosmetically influenced, processed, and packaged in regular supermarkets. If we (as in society) could just step back and simplify things... wouldn’t we all be better off? Thanks for this video, I’m from the same province as you... and I can only hope that we see more food stores, just like Nada, showing up everywhere in our province... sometime soon. Food is such a broken system and it really needs to be fixed!!
In germany, „unpackaged stores“ are popping up everywhere now. In my city, we have a GREAT one!! It opened in 2020 and has soo many amazing things. It has vegan marshmallows, unpackaged vegan cheese und sweets, pasta, legumes and toiletries. Its so amazing. 😍😊
I would like to have access to zero waste groceries that aren't necessarily organically produced but come from local producers. I honestly don't trust the "bio" tag when it's applied to products sourced outside of the EU. I think too much relevance is place in that tag and it makes groceries more expensive than they should be.
There’s more and more zero waste stores popping up in America. Sprout’s is also a great in between store. Not fully zero waste but definitely better for the environment than your normal chain. But yea, a lot of the true sustainable activity is centered around the southwest and in the big cities. So if you’re not there you may not have much. I’m looking forward to America getting on board and doing better!
It completely depends where you are. BC tends to be a lot more environmentally conscious than other parts of Canada, I'm in a city in Ontario, Bulk Barn is the closest we have to this store, you can use reusable containers but little to nothing is locally sourced. I certainly with there were more like Nada :)
I agree with you about everything. But... I live in Belgium and bulk food is 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or even 6 times more expensive than the exact same foods, from regular shops. There is no logic... It's like being penalised for wanting to be more ecological and for wanting to sustain the local farmers, etc. Just an example: oats at regular shop - almost 2,40 euros/kg, the same oats in a bulk shop - almost 7,00 euros/kg. And I did this comparison for dozens of items. Is there something I'm missing?
I recently found out about an online shop called Wally Shop that has amazing prices on zw food. You pay a deposit on the containers its shipped in that you get back when returned. Its perfect for someone like me whos not really concerned with/can't afford organic
That's great! I understand why zero waste stores choose organic and high quality food, but some of us can't afford that on daily basis. We just want the regular thing without the packaging.
@@inkasaraswati7625 Yep! Low waste should be the norm, not an organic, gluten free vegan only zone. Until, then , it’s elitist in tone, and often elitist in price. Reusing plastic that came as other packaging is as low waste going forward as using a jar you bought for the purpose. (My jars are all PB or pasta or jam jars. I will break one every few months. I can decant into the pretty ones at home and return the carrier jars to my shopping bags.
@@inkasaraswati7625 I agree and the same thing goes for fair trade/animal welfare too. I want those things, but I don't want to always pay for organic as well
What a legit zero waste store! I haven't really ventured out to see what's around my area since I live the US but I did recently sign up for a CSA box that I get every other week that I've been loving so far!
No way, I used to play soccer with Alison! I've never had the pleasure of visiting Nada, but I wish we had a bigger zero-waste store in Victoria. It's great to see the efforts they've made to ensure people can still shop zero-waste during the pandemic.
Canada is in the process of banning several single use products such s plastic bags. Nova Scotia had that both bags and straws banned for the past few years. The first half year saw me sending my partner back to the car for my bags, but after a few months of that, we got used to the new habit. It wasn’t hard. I also took an old pair of lace sheers curtains and turned them into thin bags for vegetables and fruits. I shop at bulk barn for grains and beans and spices ( and the occasional junk food snack)😋
I just love performative art installments like Nada. Especially when they have a way for the audienve tp get involved in the fun. Great entertainment! (Not sustainable as a food provider, -but what a wonderful show! Disneyland for hipsters who are too cool to go to Disneyland! Afterwards theres lots to talk about to your friends at cocktail parties! Fun!
In my state there are a few minimal waste shops. Not everything is waste free but a good amount of things are! Hopefully as it picks up more traction we will get some stores that are Zero Waste!
There are two independent shops like this in my local area (North Tyneside, England) - we love them! One called ‘Buy the Kilo’ which I’ve always thought was clever!
I’ve thought about how I would create a low waste grocery store for the last several years. In my head, the weighing system would be different, but I still love seeing this!! We need more across the US.
Sprouts and Winco, big bulk bin stores in the states/San Diego, had to switch up their operations. Sprouts now sells prebags “bulk food”. They tend to fill them in 1lb bags. Winco, Iv only been there back in March, stopped their bulk bins. Like the isles were all empty when I went last. Also they don’t let you bring your own bags/jars before the covid. I guess it just slows down the til. But they claimed that you can recycle the baggies.
Looks like a wonderful store that hopefully will expand and continue to grow or at least inspire other stores to copy their business model. The only real problem with the higher prices, or more accurately, fair pricing of goods; is that our most vulnerable populations (the working poor and the elderly on small fixed incomes) would go even hungrier as they would end up with the same limited budget and the higher prices.
Hi! I live in Sweden on the south west coast with a weather that alouds us to have long outdoor seasons and more then one crop a year. We don´t even have any snow most years, just rain and wind. I eat mostly plantbased (a few things just vegetarian) in season and try to find as local food as possible. What I can´t preserve I eat in season and I always look for the best option in whole when it comes to all things I buy. In food that is local, organic, small business, in season, in a good package or without aso. I am a very active "plastic avoider" and I always bring my own bags aso when I shop. I can find alot of what I eat and want packagefree or in a simple paperbag when I shop in my ordinary food stores here. It´s just a mater of choise of options but not hard at all and not many thing to let go without. We have a decent amount of local producers and farmers that sell their stuff either in town on market days or in their farm shops at home and as subscriptions. I live only 2-3 minutes on foot from the large square in my "small" 100.000 people town and it´s there the farmers sell their products. Here in Sweden the food that is local and in season often is cheaper and we are not allowing most of the toxic stuff other parts of the planet can put on their crop so we eat good. This meens that food that is not marked as organic tho local and from a small business in equal good as the one marked and a way better choise then stuff brought from the other side of the planet. We have a tradition of making good from scratch and to can, make jam, bake aso. The fast food industry and costum of eating premade, mixes and that kind of stuff is not as big as in other countries. This also gives us the opertunity to know what is in the food and to eat for a lower cost. ur recycle system is quite good and we have small recycle systems at home, by the bins (even for large apartmenthouses) them we have larger for more fractions in a lot of places in town, free to use for everyone. In every town there are large scrapyards/recycle stations with staff that helps you to put all things in the right recycle bin/container to. These stations are own by the city and we all use them. If one chooses it is easy to be a good planet helper and live on a small budget at the same time, here in Sweden. Where I live it is quite easy to eat well and for a small cost tho things can alway get better : ) in 23 days!!! a packagefree shop, our towns first will open only 2 minutes strole from my home. I am sooooo exited for this and I hope it will be a good one.
About the price; the explanation that "it's expensive because it's higher quality" doesn't really address the actual problem; how do you make zero waste something people can actually afford? As an example; at the only zero waste store anywhere near me; 100g of pasta screws costs the same as 500g of supermarket pasta. Same for rice. Oats are 3 times as expensive unpacked, and flour 6 times, despite both of them being traditionally packed in paper anyway. Unless the idea is just to make the middle class so low waste it makes up for the rest of the world not being able to afford to join in, we kinda need to stop dismissing the fact that zero waste store focus on way to expensive niche products, and start finding more efficient ways of selling non-handcrafted-artisanal-organic pasta.
This is not a problem we will answer simply and easily but I think NADA represents what "could" and "should" be the norm. Without this rather luxurious example we won't ever reach an affordable option that reaches the mainstream. Think of it like the Model S paving the way for the Model 3 and other more affordable electric cars.
I would never have thought I would get excited about grocery shopping. Well, things change. I saw my first Nada in Ontario, and I am thrilled to see more of them everywhere. Love the concept, and I don't think you need to be rich to be shopping zero waste. It's more about what your values are. I am too rich, but I eat food that feels good and keeps me healthy and strong. So perhaps I am richer than others. Go Nada
Recently my boyfriend and I were driving in his home city and he pointed out an Amazon Fresh store that had recently opened, which he was mad about. He resents the fact that Amazon is bullying the other stores into going out of business (case in point, the new Amazon Fresh store is located where a Toys R Us used to be). I pointed out to him “well maybe instead of feeling frustrated, you should be proactive and vote with your dollar by supporting the local farmers instead. There are certainly plenty of farmers near us (Southern California)”. It cheered him up a bit.
I love zero waste stores but the closest one is a half hour drive away and then I start thinking if it is better to go there considering the fuel and emmissions from driving. I want one in my city but couldn't make my own so.... making do with farmers market and less packaging whenever possible.
If you don’t have a zero-waste shop: research which regular grocery store has more plastic free vegetables and fruits, just go and see and write it down. Go to specialised shops! A regular green vendor / green grocer usually never uses plastic packaging, a bakery doesn’t use plastic, even a bakery inside a chain grocery does not use plastic. Go to delis or Mediterranean/middle eastern specific shops, they often have a lot of stuff you can scoop yourself or stuff in the counter the cashier will scoop for you and they’re happy to let you bring your own container, they are also almost always privately owned or very tiny chains specific to the city. Email your regular grocery store and ask for less plastic packaging in their fruits section, ask them to expand their bakery and make the bread rack smaller, ask them to choose paper packaged dry goods if they won’t implement a diy weighing system, ask them to stop selling plastic bags. Nada is AWESOME but they can’t overtake the market, regular grocery stores need to meet them in the middle. Email your local politicians and ask them to support legislations that ease the food cycle’s effect on the climate.
This is THE COOLEST zero waste shop I have ever seen. Holy crap. When the pandemic clears up I am totally taking a road trip to Vancouver, and this place will be the FIRST on my list. Wow. Mind-blown.
Sorry, will continue shopping at Aldi, because even if a had such a store near me I could never afford those insanely high prices. Such stores are nice but what is really needed is better distributed wealth.
Ever since I saw your first video on this place, I've been looking for one near me.. No luck 😔 I'm so impressed by all of their efforts to stay sustainable during the pandemic! I would do so much to support a business like this.
I will never forget reading about how Lantinos are smuggled undercover at night to pick produce not paid until at the next crop, Men women and children. That is why produce is so cheap. Because no white people will want to work from sun up around 6 am -8pm for so little . I wish there was a place like that here were I live. The closest place near me is way out of my budget... and the mainstream places that used to do bulk is now wrapping EVERYTHING in plastic. Thank you for spreading the positive ways people can make a change and that's its not all or nothing . Ps. There is a facebook group in KS that started called Support Kansas Farms . its an amazing resource thats spreading to other states as well!
Thanks for an awesome video! In Norway, we are currently having the annual fundraiser, "TV-Aksjonen". I'm so excited this year, since WWF is one of the organizers, and since all the money goes to the fight against plastic in the oceans. Unlike other years, there is no physical carrying of collecting tins around neighborhoods, but everything takes place online.
I can't believe the first Nada video was two years ago! This is such a cool store and I think you did a great job of laying out why. I've really started thinking more about my personal impact since watching your channel and I want to continue making changes in my own life. Thanks for making such interesting and informative content!!
Hey great job bringing this more to our attention. Was surprised to find lots of Zero Waste stores around me here in New Zealand that I didn't know were out there!
Why do they have such a complex system with the chips? At our local zero-waste-shop, there is a scale: You put your jar on and simply write the the weight on it with a marker.
Yey...looove Zero waste stores! Makes grocery shopping enjoyable again and not as depressing. Sometimes it's so bad that I'm literally not capable of buying anything in a regular store coz it's either wrapped in all kinds of plastic, priced in a suspicious way or is unsavoury in another way.
Great video, can't wait to have a store like this near where I live! The closest 0 waste store is an hour away but there's some closer ones that have bulk
There's s good chance there is something similar near you. It might be a small independently owned on, though, which doesn't have a big budget for marketing/advertising, so you'll have to check around.
I like the jar program, thats a great idea. So many zero wasters have too many jars than they can use because its the only convenience product they usually buy
Also I am not zero waste at the moment as I am not the purchaser of groceries and disabled so convenience is important. But when I can I avoid plastic!
I was all for something like this before, but Covid totally changeed my mind of touching lid/pick a tong/ touch food inside... our groceries have moved to pre packaged bulk buy. I’m glad ppl aren’t pushing bread with their thumb anymore now that they are in the sealed packaging.
Seems awesome! A chain of stores like this one has popped up around sydney Australia. I do what i can to achieve 0 waste but i just cant afford organic groceries (would LOVE to!), I notice the same behaviour of people entering the store to explore the 0 waste experience but cant afford because organic is so expensive here. Really wish the subsidies of oil, animal products, etc when to stores like this! It would be great if non organic stores like this would open so the average person could reduce their plastic consumption until the government steps up their game about subsidies for organic products!
Interesting idea and i appreciate what you do. However, i live in Florida which is currently the 3rd most populated state in the U.S. and growing fast. Where I live we have a regular trash day for regular trash pick up and a recycle day for pick up of recyclables. Unfortunately some don’t even bother separating their stuff so they toss their plastic water bottles, aluminum cans, and glass jars in with their regular trash. Also in addition people like me who are single, don’t cook much (other than basics like eggs), have limited space, and are often on the go, a place like this would be a difficult sell. I am often grabbing food on the go during the week and on weekends eat out with friends. Take care.
Hi! Loved seeing the behind the scenes of this grocery store! Wish there was a Nada in my area. Something I’ve been wondering about lately is how one can live out a low-waste lifestyle when spending time with people or even living with people who aren’t practicing (or practicing to the same extent) how to live low-waste.
Good question! Leah and I aare with our parents right now who eat differently than we do but you just have to constantly show your lifestyle alongside theirs. We have convinced them to try vegetarian October!
Levi Hildebrand that’s a great idea! I also live with my family and have been trying to get my parents and sister to compost. We have a backyard so we have the means to make it possible but we’re all very busy with work/school and don’t have the time to balance a backyard compost well so sometimes compostable things get tossed in the trash (mostly because the parents don’t think to sort) and the compost doesn’t get done until the kitchen pail is full (or worse, overflowing-so more food waste gets trashed). Struggling to find solutions to make it easy for everyone to switch and make it the new normal! I’ve looked into curbside composting too but it feels weird to pay for a service when I can do it myself but don’t have the time to do it well or help my family do it well
Have you ran a business before? Interested in Specifically grocery food or would you want to start with non-perishables? If the latter, you can contact Byrd’s Filling Station in San Mateo, CA, US. I’ve purchased from her three times so far, and it seems like she’s running things from her garage. In the same vein, I think 1st is to make sure your dishwasher works (to sanitize the containers), survey your market, and find space to store and process your bulk buy. That’s why I think non-perishables would be a good place to start while you spread the word and work out kinks. Create a spreadsheet of things your neighbors, friends, and nearby family regularly buy in non-sustainable packaging and the price ranges. Ask what they feel is a reasonable delivery fee or model. For example in NorCal, we have: A. GoodEggs which charges $3-12 delivery fee + 7.5% Living Wage fee. B. ZeroGrocery which waives the $7.99 delivery fee + bottles charge if you subscribe for $25/month. C. FillGood.co which has a free delivery minimum, $5 fee, or set free pickup locations. Include a question about jar uniformity, since getting random ones donated would be cheaper but then sizing/pricing could become a headache without a good system. You might next talk with local businesses who are willing to give you bulk to re-distribute and/or will takeback their containers. Think like soaps and personal care, sauce-makers, berries, pickles, honey, drinks, etc. Hopefully after a few years, you and your community will have learned from each other and you’d be ready to revamp, raise funding, or both to grow your business into the next level (truck? storefront? perishables?). Hope that gets the juices going!
This is what my store does, but on a larger scale....my dream! I LOVE IT! If you ever get the chance to visit Toronto (after all this craziness has settled down), you should also check out Unboxed Market. I got to meet the owner @ a Trade show last year and she's a GEM!
@@LeahandLeviI would love you to visit mine someday, also, to see what small towns are made of. Also, just wanted to let you know you inspired me (as a business owner) to become a member of 1% for the Planet, after hearing about you being the first RUclipsr to do it. I thought that, if someone who isn't a BIG corp can do it, so can I!
I'm in Langley (suburb of Vancouver). Before the pandemic it was incredibly easy to shop zero waste at the local save on foods and bulk barn (minus the consciousness about supply chain of course). Unfortunately despite all of the research and literature that's come out about the safety of reusables with COVID save on is still not letting us use our own bags and containers in the bulk section. Bulk barn is back up and running but that would mean double the grocery store trips because they don't have produce and in this COVID world we're all trying to come in contact with as few people as possible. Lately instead of worrying about packaging which is frankly out of my control, we've been focusing on creating zero food waste from what we buy, packaged or not.
Yeah it's tough out there atm Laura but you should check out my video about whether or not you can be zero waste during covid because I talk about this specifically.
One thing that makes me sad is that if you don’t live in a large metro area your access to zero/low waste options are either drastically limited or nonexistent.
I love NADA. It was great following their journey from pop up markets to construction to opening. I really hope you also check out and highlight the original Vancouver zero waste shopTHE. SOAP DISPENSARY & KITCHEN STAPLES also in Vancouver. The owner, Linh, is so great!
Really love this concept and really wish we had access to something like this. We nearly emigrated from the UK to BC but chickened out. You really make me wish we did.
Hahaha well moving internationally is not a simple process so I don't blame you. Do some googling! I know that the UK actually has a bunch of stuff like this as well!
We've got a small one about an hour away but that doesn't seem very sustainable. Zero waste near me doesn't seem to be working at the moment but I'll check back later.
Angus Farquhar yeah I see the site is down, worth checking back. Also, if you’re on facebook the ‘Journey to Zero Waste in the UK’ group is super helpful and people ask for suggestions of shops/options in their area all the time.
a interesting example of how broken food systems are look at the uk baked bean war becoming the store with the lowest price beans meant that they were paying you to buy beans
From the way I see regular Americans generally portion food based on the eateries, restaurants and cafes I've seen, most of them could easily continue on the same food budget they've been used to and still survive on the higher prices of sustainable groceries. Unless you're flat broke and can only afford a single meal a day level of poverty, most people in the West ain't going to be starving from halving their portion sizes.
I ordered Walmart pick up the other day because I didn't want to go inside the store and they literally put each item on a individual plastic bag. I felt so bad when I got home and open my trunk I saw the amount of shopping bags they gave me.
That's hilarious. At first I thought you said "wheat chocolate" and I was wondering why you had such small pieces. Also, fun to make the plastic cups into one of those old phone lines. :)
Just amazes me how something that can literally be grown by anyone or made just if we all took the time and just wait for something “natural”(we will never be able to experience something real on this earth bc of how much we have changed it and made everything mixed )but people have never been able to learned to work together to make life and earth something bigger than how it started
People could of kept things going even tho demands are high that’s where you look for a better solution not just something that will make people happy because of what you said it was,stuff these days you can’t even see or you may thinks it’s something it’s not and that’s the fault of humanity when we started taking the easy route
it'd be cool if my city had something like that. I live in a suburb north of Toronto so most of the stores like these are in Toronto ...maybe someday soon
Lol i've seen plenty of stores like this in USSR and then Russia in the early nineties. Back then you had to carry a metal canister called "bidon" to buy milk, shopper bag that was called "avos'ka", and a special metal net to carry eggs. All the packaging was made from paper (which could be then turned in for recycling). And everyone gathered glass bottles to turn them in. Honestly i don't want all that back
I went to Russia in the 90s. The meat truck that came once every couple of weeks literally had no packaging, it was just tossed in a truck. Same kind of meat, too. You didn't have a choice. Most people had to scavenge in the forest to not starve to death because the only grocery store in the area, which was plastic and package free, was hit and miss. But hey, it was low waste.
I always wonder when I see this videos... I live in South America, and we are waaay behind in a lot of enviromental issues, but we have a shop for each food item. Even multiple stores in the same neighborhood. For example you can go to a dietética to get spices, dried fruits, nuts, rice, oats, etc. To the green vendor to get your fresh fruits and veggies, the butcher for the meat, and there are stores that sell eggs, usually wrapped in paper. If you bring your containers you can have everything package free. Do this stores not exist in most first world countries ? I mean is really unusual here for people to buy everything at the supermarket. I´ll admit tho that some things are almost impossible to get package free, like cleaning products, or pasta. You can get the latter made fresh at pasta shops but it´s way more expensive. Are there similar stores at first world countrys? It seems from most of this videos that it´s rare.
Great video! We have a few zero waste stores in Toronto which is great. Curious, have you been to the zero waste store in Victoria, BC? I’d love you to do a video on these meal kit services that have become popular. I haven’t subscribed to them because I have heard there is a lot of plastic waste. But they seem very popular and certainly get a lot of media play. (HelloFresh, Chef’s Plate etc)
The point about prices in regular supermarkets hits the nail on its head. Moreover, the little profit margin is almost fully allocated to the chains, not the farmers/producers. The chains have so much bargaining power that the farmers make almost no profit. As result, they have such a hard time making the transition to sustainable production as they have so little fat on their bones to invest. In my job (Dutch National Government) we are currently figuring out how to give more bargaining power to farmers along with "true pricing " the products. So amen to those shops like Nada!
Thank you for this comment! There’s so many layers to this that I couldn’t fit in the video but hopefully we see more improvements in the future!
As a farmer who deals with stores, even smaller ones, this is SO true.
Totally true!! Companies like Amazon (the owner of Audible) are hurting local economies, ruining the environment, and exploiting their workers, so that things can be shipped to consumers for pennies! I'm shocked and disappointed about the hypocrisy within this video.
@@alexa6695 Now I wonder whether Shelbizllle isn't a hypocrite too as her videos are very often sponsored by Audible
@@annabukiel6890 She probably doesn't know and is just glad to be sponsored by something that doesn't require you to consume material items - also it helps her to stay educated even though she does not have much time for reading.
Shelby might not be perfect, but she's quite far from being a hypocrite.
None of us knows everything about everything we use, like and therefore promote.
I LOVE this place! It was #1 on places to visit when I was in Vancouver. Hoping we can create communities to support more of these around the world.
Next time you're here (and we're not in a freaking pandemic) we gotta meet up!
this crossover episode is insane
Have a good day white lady 😎
We definitely need more company's like this, not only throughout the USA, but the world.
And in more areas that aren’t just major metro areas.
@@kayseacamp omg I live in Oregon and there are zero places like this!! Wish there was tho😊
In America as well. If you don't live in a major city, like NYC, LA, or Chicago, you don't really have access to these stores.
Hmm yeah If only more places can afford it over privileged spoiled brat
no.. thanks to this pretentious way...
we have been doing the same thing in Asia for ever now... and things are cheaper here in this method and not unnecessarily overpriced like in USA in the name of saving the world 🙄😒
Okay the jars donation program is actually really really smart! I hoard so many jars sometimes I don't have enough space. Also love the comment about the margins. The costs we do not see in the back when it comes to grocery stores is not just the monetary costs but the human costs associated to many of low income or even migrant workers that are literally working for close to nothing . Some of the zero waste grocery stores in Toronto have been making adjustments with COVID and i really commend them for the work they are doing
Yes! Love this point Afia! There's so many "costs" that we don't see! Paying for the true cost of food is something that not many of us actually do!
I just love that "nada" means nothing (at least in portuguese and spanish). But yeah, totally in love with this grocery store
Nada means hope in croatian.
@@monikawillowmatic Wow! That's awesome! Thanks for sharing :)
Nada en nada. Hope in nothing.
My family is low income and we can't even fathom buying food at a place like this. It sounds good but definitely for the rich and well off. Which is fine, if you have the money go for it, as long as they leave us the cheaper stores so we can eat, too.
They target hipsters who like to spend their money on "sustainable" items. 😆
Same. There is a store like that right next to our apartment but we never went there because we can't afford it
It's not your fault, the system is just so f'd. It shouldn't cost so much more to eat healthy and shop sustainably. I've always been a personal responsibility kind of person, but the higher ups/government really need to get their act together and change things .
These stores pray on ignorance, overpriced food for ignorant people.
Some of these places (in the US) have begun to accept EBT (Publicly funded food subsidies). I think these stores are expensive because of the market they compete in and the quality/price ratio they offer. They don't get the leverage of a mega corporation and have to prove freshness at the point of sale as opposed to at consumption. You are more likely to notice a stale almond when you buy it bulk than when you buy a vacuum sealed bag.
I am amazed at how food, something so simple and essential, has become so complicated, cosmetically influenced, processed, and packaged in regular supermarkets. If we (as in society) could just step back and simplify things... wouldn’t we all be better off? Thanks for this video, I’m from the same province as you... and I can only hope that we see more food stores, just like Nada, showing up everywhere in our province... sometime soon. Food is such a broken system and it really needs to be fixed!!
Thanks for the comment Mary! I’ve got my fingers crossed!
You really don’t understand scale, distribution and both, do you?
In germany, „unpackaged stores“ are popping up everywhere now. In my city, we have a GREAT one!! It opened in 2020 and has soo many amazing things. It has vegan marshmallows, unpackaged vegan cheese und sweets, pasta, legumes and toiletries. Its so amazing. 😍😊
Gosh, I wish more unpackaged stores were localized in my area. I live in a smaller area of the US
I would like to have access to zero waste groceries that aren't necessarily organically produced but come from local producers. I honestly don't trust the "bio" tag when it's applied to products sourced outside of the EU. I think too much relevance is place in that tag and it makes groceries more expensive than they should be.
Seeing how environmentally conscious Canada is, is super inspiring and I wish america had a system like it
There’s more and more zero waste stores popping up in America. Sprout’s is also a great in between store. Not fully zero waste but definitely better for the environment than your normal chain.
But yea, a lot of the true sustainable activity is centered around the southwest and in the big cities. So if you’re not there you may not have much. I’m looking forward to America getting on board and doing better!
@@SaveMoneySavethePlanet Agreed!
This is a very limited snapshot of our country.
It completely depends where you are. BC tends to be a lot more environmentally conscious than other parts of Canada, I'm in a city in Ontario, Bulk Barn is the closest we have to this store, you can use reusable containers but little to nothing is locally sourced. I certainly with there were more like Nada :)
As many comments have illustrated Canada is definitely all like this. We have our texas’ too. Haha
I woke up planning to check out the zero waste stores here in Seattle. Perfect timing and now I am just more excited to head out!
Nice! I’m sure there’s a bunch of options around there!
I agree with you about everything. But... I live in Belgium and bulk food is 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or even 6 times more expensive than the exact same foods, from regular shops. There is no logic... It's like being penalised for wanting to be more ecological and for wanting to sustain the local farmers, etc. Just an example: oats at regular shop - almost 2,40 euros/kg, the same oats in a bulk shop - almost 7,00 euros/kg. And I did this comparison for dozens of items. Is there something I'm missing?
I recently found out about an online shop called Wally Shop that has amazing prices on zw food. You pay a deposit on the containers its shipped in that you get back when returned. Its perfect for someone like me whos not really concerned with/can't afford organic
That's great! I understand why zero waste stores choose organic and high quality food, but some of us can't afford that on daily basis. We just want the regular thing without the packaging.
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Yep! Low waste should be the norm, not an organic, gluten free vegan only zone. Until, then , it’s elitist in tone, and often elitist in price.
Reusing plastic that came as other packaging is as low waste going forward as using a jar you bought for the purpose. (My jars are all PB or pasta or jam jars. I will break one every few months. I can decant into the pretty ones at home and return the carrier jars to my shopping bags.
@@inkasaraswati7625 I agree and the same thing goes for fair trade/animal welfare too. I want those things, but I don't want to always pay for organic as well
levi: i bet you've never seen a grocery store like this
me, who's been shopping at nada for two years: bet
What a legit zero waste store! I haven't really ventured out to see what's around my area since I live the US but I did recently sign up for a CSA box that I get every other week that I've been loving so far!
No way, I used to play soccer with Alison! I've never had the pleasure of visiting Nada, but I wish we had a bigger zero-waste store in Victoria. It's great to see the efforts they've made to ensure people can still shop zero-waste during the pandemic.
Please expand this business.
Canada is in the process of banning several single use products such s plastic bags. Nova Scotia had that both bags and straws banned for the past few years. The first half year saw me sending my partner back to the car for my bags, but after a few months of that, we got used to the new habit. It wasn’t hard. I also took an old pair of lace sheers curtains and turned them into thin bags for vegetables and fruits. I shop at bulk barn for grains and beans and spices ( and the occasional junk food snack)😋
Omg we need thisssss here in California. And everywhere really
Look up tare, :) it’s not as extensive as this one but it’s in California and its a start at least
I just love performative art installments like Nada. Especially when they have a way for the audienve tp get involved in the fun. Great entertainment!
(Not sustainable as a food provider, -but what a wonderful show! Disneyland for hipsters who are too cool to go to Disneyland! Afterwards theres lots to talk about to your friends at cocktail parties! Fun!
In my state there are a few minimal waste shops. Not everything is waste free but a good amount of things are! Hopefully as it picks up more traction we will get some stores that are Zero Waste!
There are two independent shops like this in my local area (North Tyneside, England) - we love them! One called ‘Buy the Kilo’ which I’ve always thought was clever!
Thanks for sharing! So happy to hear you have some options!
i'd love to make a company like this where i live because there's nothing like that here. but i def don't have the money, time, and capitol to do it.
I’ve thought about how I would create a low waste grocery store for the last several years. In my head, the weighing system would be different, but I still love seeing this!! We need more across the US.
Sprouts and Winco, big bulk bin stores in the states/San Diego, had to switch up their operations. Sprouts now sells prebags “bulk food”. They tend to fill them in 1lb bags. Winco, Iv only been there back in March, stopped their bulk bins. Like the isles were all empty when I went last. Also they don’t let you bring your own bags/jars before the covid. I guess it just slows down the til. But they claimed that you can recycle the baggies.
Yeah I think most bulk stores have had to do something along these lines. 😢
Looks like a wonderful store that hopefully will expand and continue to grow or at least inspire other stores to copy their business model. The only real problem with the higher prices, or more accurately, fair pricing of goods; is that our most vulnerable populations (the working poor and the elderly on small fixed incomes) would go even hungrier as they would end up with the same limited budget and the higher prices.
Yes we need to have balance between the cost expected and the way that food is grown! Thanks for the comment!
Hi!
I live in Sweden on the south west coast with a weather that alouds us to have long outdoor seasons and more then one crop a year. We don´t even have any snow most years, just rain and wind.
I eat mostly plantbased (a few things just vegetarian) in season and try to find as local food as possible. What I can´t preserve I eat in season and I always look for the best option in whole when it comes to all things I buy. In food that is local, organic, small business, in season, in a good package or without aso. I am a very active "plastic avoider" and I always bring my own bags aso when I shop. I can find alot of what I eat and want packagefree or in a simple paperbag when I shop in my ordinary food stores here. It´s just a mater of choise of options but not hard at all and not many thing to let go without.
We have a decent amount of local producers and farmers that sell their stuff either in town on market days or in their farm shops at home and as subscriptions.
I live only 2-3 minutes on foot from the large square in my "small" 100.000 people town and it´s there the farmers sell their products.
Here in Sweden the food that is local and in season often is cheaper and we are not allowing most of the toxic stuff other parts of the planet can put on their crop so we eat good. This meens that food that is not marked as organic tho local and from a small business in equal good as the one marked and a way better choise then stuff brought from the other side of the planet.
We have a tradition of making good from scratch and to can, make jam, bake aso. The fast food industry and costum of eating premade, mixes and that kind of stuff is not as big as in other countries. This also gives us the opertunity to know what is in the food and to eat for a lower cost.
ur recycle system is quite good and we have small recycle systems at home, by the bins (even for large apartmenthouses) them we have larger for more fractions in a lot of places in town, free to use for everyone. In every town there are large scrapyards/recycle stations with staff that helps you to put all things in the right recycle bin/container to. These stations are own by the city and we all use them. If one chooses it is easy to be a good planet helper and live on a small budget at the same time, here in Sweden.
Where I live it is quite easy to eat well and for a small cost tho things can alway get better : ) in 23 days!!! a packagefree shop, our towns first will open only 2 minutes strole from my home. I am sooooo exited for this and I hope it will be a good one.
I love how confidently Levi enters through the exit door at 7:45 Lol. Love the video
Sometimes you need swag to save the planet too you know? 🤷🏻♂️
About the price; the explanation that "it's expensive because it's higher quality" doesn't really address the actual problem; how do you make zero waste something people can actually afford?
As an example; at the only zero waste store anywhere near me; 100g of pasta screws costs the same as 500g of supermarket pasta. Same for rice. Oats are 3 times as expensive unpacked, and flour 6 times, despite both of them being traditionally packed in paper anyway.
Unless the idea is just to make the middle class so low waste it makes up for the rest of the world not being able to afford to join in, we kinda need to stop dismissing the fact that zero waste store focus on way to expensive niche products, and start finding more efficient ways of selling non-handcrafted-artisanal-organic pasta.
This is not a problem we will answer simply and easily but I think NADA represents what "could" and "should" be the norm. Without this rather luxurious example we won't ever reach an affordable option that reaches the mainstream. Think of it like the Model S paving the way for the Model 3 and other more affordable electric cars.
I would never have thought I would get excited about grocery shopping. Well, things change. I saw my first Nada in Ontario, and I am thrilled to see more of them everywhere. Love the concept, and I don't think you need to be rich to be shopping zero waste. It's more about what your values are. I am too rich, but I eat food that feels good and keeps me healthy and strong. So perhaps I am richer than others. Go Nada
Love this perspective, you just have to decide what kind of stuff you spend your money on!
In Toronto, we have Bare Market on Danforth Avenue. They are doing a lot of the same things that were highlighted at Nada!!
Recently my boyfriend and I were driving in his home city and he pointed out an Amazon Fresh store that had recently opened, which he was mad about. He resents the fact that Amazon is bullying the other stores into going out of business (case in point, the new Amazon Fresh store is located where a Toys R Us used to be). I pointed out to him “well maybe instead of feeling frustrated, you should be proactive and vote with your dollar by supporting the local farmers instead. There are certainly plenty of farmers near us (Southern California)”. It cheered him up a bit.
This video was kind of refreshing. It felt like a typical pre-covid infotainment video from you. Really enjoyed it! 👏☺️
Yeah it was fun to make too! It's been a while since I was able to go somewhere and talk about stuff haha
I love zero waste stores but the closest one is a half hour drive away and then I start thinking if it is better to go there considering the fuel and emmissions from driving. I want one in my city but couldn't make my own so.... making do with farmers market and less packaging whenever possible.
There is no place like this near me unfortunately, but I try my best with what I have.
Thank you for making this video!! I'm applying for my higher studies in Vancouver and I'm happy to find such an amazing store in the same city ❤❤
If you don’t have a zero-waste shop: research which regular grocery store has more plastic free vegetables and fruits, just go and see and write it down. Go to specialised shops! A regular green vendor / green grocer usually never uses plastic packaging, a bakery doesn’t use plastic, even a bakery inside a chain grocery does not use plastic. Go to delis or Mediterranean/middle eastern specific shops, they often have a lot of stuff you can scoop yourself or stuff in the counter the cashier will scoop for you and they’re happy to let you bring your own container, they are also almost always privately owned or very tiny chains specific to the city.
Email your regular grocery store and ask for less plastic packaging in their fruits section, ask them to expand their bakery and make the bread rack smaller, ask them to choose paper packaged dry goods if they won’t implement a diy weighing system, ask them to stop selling plastic bags. Nada is AWESOME but they can’t overtake the market, regular grocery stores need to meet them in the middle. Email your local politicians and ask them to support legislations that ease the food cycle’s effect on the climate.
This is THE COOLEST zero waste shop I have ever seen. Holy crap. When the pandemic clears up I am totally taking a road trip to Vancouver, and this place will be the FIRST on my list. Wow. Mind-blown.
Sorry, will continue shopping at Aldi, because even if a had such a store near me I could never afford those insanely high prices. Such stores are nice but what is really needed is better distributed wealth.
Aldi is amazing!
Ever since I saw your first video on this place, I've been looking for one near me.. No luck 😔
I'm so impressed by all of their efforts to stay sustainable during the pandemic! I would do so much to support a business like this.
That’s too bad Avery, hopefully something opens up soon!
I will never forget reading about how Lantinos are smuggled undercover at night to pick produce not paid until at the next crop, Men women and children. That is why produce is so cheap. Because no white people will want to work from sun up around 6 am -8pm for so little . I wish there was a place like that here were I live. The closest place near me is way out of my budget... and the mainstream places that used to do bulk is now wrapping EVERYTHING in plastic. Thank you for spreading the positive ways people can make a change and that's its not all or nothing . Ps. There is a facebook group in KS that started called Support Kansas Farms . its an amazing resource thats spreading to other states as well!
Thanks for an awesome video! In Norway, we are currently having the annual fundraiser, "TV-Aksjonen". I'm so excited this year, since WWF is one of the organizers, and since all the money goes to the fight against plastic in the oceans. Unlike other years, there is no physical carrying of collecting tins around neighborhoods, but everything takes place online.
All I remember about the Nada video is that Leah went bonkers because of the BREAD.
I live in Lloydminster, Saskatchewan. No zero waste shops here and because of covid-19 they don’t take reusables anymore :(
I can't believe the first Nada video was two years ago! This is such a cool store and I think you did a great job of laying out why. I've really started thinking more about my personal impact since watching your channel and I want to continue making changes in my own life. Thanks for making such interesting and informative content!!
Thank you so much! I am so stoked to have you on the team!
Hey great job bringing this more to our attention. Was surprised to find lots of Zero Waste stores around me here in New Zealand that I didn't know were out there!
Why do they have such a complex system with the chips? At our local zero-waste-shop, there is a scale: You put your jar on and simply write the the weight on it with a marker.
Yey...looove Zero waste stores! Makes grocery shopping enjoyable again and not as depressing. Sometimes it's so bad that I'm literally not capable of buying anything in a regular store coz it's either wrapped in all kinds of plastic, priced in a suspicious way or is unsavoury in another way.
Great video, can't wait to have a store like this near where I live! The closest 0 waste store is an hour away but there's some closer ones that have bulk
"you don't need super powers to be a hero saving the world" ;)
Hey Levi ! Would love to see a video more about how our food system is broken
I hope they expand to have stores all across Canada and in smaller cities/communities as well.
In Ottawa we have Nu Grocery
There's s good chance there is something similar near you. It might be a small independently owned on, though, which doesn't have a big budget for marketing/advertising, so you'll have to check around.
I’d kill to have one of these stores near me! Awesome video, Levi!
Thanks Allie!
Do some googling/join zw Facebook groups for your town and ask for suggestions/search zerowaste[your area] on instagram and see what comes up?
I like the jar program, thats a great idea. So many zero wasters have too many jars than they can use because its the only convenience product they usually buy
Also I am not zero waste at the moment as I am not the purchaser of groceries and disabled so convenience is important. But when I can I avoid plastic!
My favourite is also The Story of Stuff - such a life changing book to read
I was all for something like this before, but Covid totally changeed my mind of touching lid/pick a tong/ touch food inside... our groceries have moved to pre packaged bulk buy. I’m glad ppl aren’t pushing bread with their thumb anymore now that they are in the sealed packaging.
Seems awesome!
A chain of stores like this one has popped up around sydney Australia. I do what i can to achieve 0 waste but i just cant afford organic groceries (would LOVE to!), I notice the same behaviour of people entering the store to explore the 0 waste experience but cant afford because organic is so expensive here.
Really wish the subsidies of oil, animal products, etc when to stores like this!
It would be great if non organic stores like this would open so the average person could reduce their plastic consumption until the government steps up their game about subsidies for organic products!
4:15 anyone noticed the plastic around those bananas? Why do the farmers do that? So they don't break apart?
Thank you for showing all of the wonderful things Nada is doing!! Our local natural food market in Fredericton NB could pick up some of these tips❤️
Interesting idea and i appreciate what you do. However, i live in Florida which is currently the 3rd most populated state in the U.S. and growing fast. Where I live we have a regular trash day for regular trash pick up and a recycle day for pick up of recyclables. Unfortunately some don’t even bother separating their stuff so they toss their plastic water bottles, aluminum cans, and glass jars in with their regular trash.
Also in addition people like me who are single, don’t cook much (other than basics like eggs), have limited space, and are often on the go, a place like this would be a difficult sell. I am often grabbing food on the go during the week and on weekends eat out with friends. Take care.
This video was so informative and made me look into zero waste stores and food box locations near me!!
Hi! Loved seeing the behind the scenes of this grocery store! Wish there was a Nada in my area.
Something I’ve been wondering about lately is how one can live out a low-waste lifestyle when spending time with people or even living with people who aren’t practicing (or practicing to the same extent) how to live low-waste.
Good question! Leah and I aare with our parents right now who eat differently than we do but you just have to constantly show your lifestyle alongside theirs. We have convinced them to try vegetarian October!
Levi Hildebrand that’s a great idea! I also live with my family and have been trying to get my parents and sister to compost. We have a backyard so we have the means to make it possible but we’re all very busy with work/school and don’t have the time to balance a backyard compost well so sometimes compostable things get tossed in the trash (mostly because the parents don’t think to sort) and the compost doesn’t get done until the kitchen pail is full (or worse, overflowing-so more food waste gets trashed). Struggling to find solutions to make it easy for everyone to switch and make it the new normal! I’ve looked into curbside composting too but it feels weird to pay for a service when I can do it myself but don’t have the time to do it well or help my family do it well
I LOVE this! I want to see these everywhere, please bring to Cincinnati, OH next please! :)
There are scales that automatically don't include the container's weight. Those chips were unnecessary.
2:06 when she came out with a crash t-shirt on, I immediately thought "yus its possible to be both nerd and trying to go low waste" 😭💕
Actually, I do live in Vancouver and now I have to check it out!! 🤩
A message to Allison: you’re right! We’re all heading that way 🥳
Bulk shopping can be great if you prepare. I love bulk cranberries.
Great stuff, Levi! don't let the analytics get ya down - it'll come :)
This is so awesome! Hopefully this will make it's way to the east coast :)
I would really love to start one of these zero waste stores at my town but I have no idea how to start
Have you ran a business before? Interested in Specifically grocery food or would you want to start with non-perishables? If the latter, you can contact Byrd’s Filling Station in San Mateo, CA, US. I’ve purchased from her three times so far, and it seems like she’s running things from her garage.
In the same vein, I think 1st is to make sure your dishwasher works (to sanitize the containers), survey your market, and find space to store and process your bulk buy. That’s why I think non-perishables would be a good place to start while you spread the word and work out kinks. Create a spreadsheet of things your neighbors, friends, and nearby family regularly buy in non-sustainable packaging and the price ranges. Ask what they feel is a reasonable delivery fee or model. For example in NorCal, we have: A. GoodEggs which charges $3-12 delivery fee + 7.5% Living Wage fee. B. ZeroGrocery which waives the $7.99 delivery fee + bottles charge if you subscribe for $25/month. C. FillGood.co which has a free delivery minimum, $5 fee, or set free pickup locations. Include a question about jar uniformity, since getting random ones donated would be cheaper but then sizing/pricing could become a headache without a good system.
You might next talk with local businesses who are willing to give you bulk to re-distribute and/or will takeback their containers. Think like soaps and personal care, sauce-makers, berries, pickles, honey, drinks, etc.
Hopefully after a few years, you and your community will have learned from each other and you’d be ready to revamp, raise funding, or both to grow your business into the next level (truck? storefront? perishables?).
Hope that gets the juices going!
@@hynnow18 Cool I live in San Mateo right now so its cool to learn about a zero waste option here 🤗💚
This is what my store does, but on a larger scale....my dream! I LOVE IT! If you ever get the chance to visit Toronto (after all this craziness has settled down), you should also check out Unboxed Market. I got to meet the owner @ a Trade show last year and she's a GEM!
Yes! I will be there again one day (hopefully) and it will be on my list!
@@LeahandLeviI would love you to visit mine someday, also, to see what small towns are made of. Also, just wanted to let you know you inspired me (as a business owner) to become a member of 1% for the Planet, after hearing about you being the first RUclipsr to do it. I thought that, if someone who isn't a BIG corp can do it, so can I!
I'm in Langley (suburb of Vancouver). Before the pandemic it was incredibly easy to shop zero waste at the local save on foods and bulk barn (minus the consciousness about supply chain of course). Unfortunately despite all of the research and literature that's come out about the safety of reusables with COVID save on is still not letting us use our own bags and containers in the bulk section. Bulk barn is back up and running but that would mean double the grocery store trips because they don't have produce and in this COVID world we're all trying to come in contact with as few people as possible. Lately instead of worrying about packaging which is frankly out of my control, we've been focusing on creating zero food waste from what we buy, packaged or not.
Yeah it's tough out there atm Laura but you should check out my video about whether or not you can be zero waste during covid because I talk about this specifically.
Hey Levi! Could you make a video addressing HelloFresh and other food kit services? Addressing how it may be convenient but makes a lot of waste.
I remember that older video you did on this. I really hoped that this concept would've gotten picked up by now
So when is the vid on the food system?
One thing that makes me sad is that if you don’t live in a large metro area your access to zero/low waste options are either drastically limited or nonexistent.
Ha I live in a large metroplex and we have no zero waste stores
I love NADA. It was great following their journey from pop up markets to construction to opening. I really hope you also check out and highlight the original Vancouver zero waste shopTHE. SOAP DISPENSARY & KITCHEN STAPLES also in Vancouver. The owner, Linh, is so great!
Really love this concept and really wish we had access to something like this. We nearly emigrated from the UK to BC but chickened out. You really make me wish we did.
Hahaha well moving internationally is not a simple process so I don't blame you. Do some googling! I know that the UK actually has a bunch of stuff like this as well!
Where are you in the UK? Zero waste near me is an online database of all the zero waste/loose shops in the uk :)
We've got a small one about an hour away but that doesn't seem very sustainable. Zero waste near me doesn't seem to be working at the moment but I'll check back later.
Angus Farquhar yeah I see the site is down, worth checking back. Also, if you’re on facebook the ‘Journey to Zero Waste in the UK’ group is super helpful and people ask for suggestions of shops/options in their area all the time.
a interesting example of how broken food systems are look at the uk baked bean war becoming the store with the lowest price beans meant that they were paying you to buy beans
I find beans and grains very reasonable at the bulk store by me. Nuts, granola and teas aren’t cheap in boxes.
Delivery guy really needs to stop at the stop sign.
This would be really nice for about 1% of the US population.
From the way I see regular Americans generally portion food based on the eateries, restaurants and cafes I've seen, most of them could easily continue on the same food budget they've been used to and still survive on the higher prices of sustainable groceries.
Unless you're flat broke and can only afford a single meal a day level of poverty, most people in the West ain't going to be starving from halving their portion sizes.
I ordered Walmart pick up the other day because I didn't want to go inside the store and they literally put each item on a individual plastic bag. I felt so bad when I got home and open my trunk I saw the amount of shopping bags they gave me.
Recycle the bags. You can bring them right back to Walmart since they have a recycling program.
Nada in Serbian means “Hope” and it’s also a name here. 😍
nada in spanish means “nothing” lmao
either way, both meanings are accurate! No plastic packaging, no waste, means hope for the planet!
Nada di Indonesia means notes in the partiture to sing a song
Nada means swim in Spanish ...too😂
@@Lealizac I was going to say that.
Saludos!
Yall need to do a video about B2 pens made from recycled water bottles
That's hilarious. At first I thought you said "wheat chocolate" and I was wondering why you had such small pieces. Also, fun to make the plastic cups into one of those old phone lines. :)
Came here after your insta post. Always here to support!! 🥰
I wish they had this in my state, i hope they expand soon 🙏💕
Wow, this is fantastic! I would go out of my way to shop at Nada if they existed in Columbus, Oh.
Just amazes me how something that can literally be grown by anyone or made just if we all took the time and just wait for something “natural”(we will never be able to experience something real on this earth bc of how much we have changed it and made everything mixed )but people have never been able to learned to work together to make life and earth something bigger than how it started
People could of kept things going even tho demands are high that’s where you look for a better solution not just something that will make people happy because of what you said it was,stuff these days you can’t even see or you may thinks it’s something it’s not and that’s the fault of humanity when we started taking the easy route
I literally love everything about this video EXCEPT the way Levi pronounces nada
IM SOOO EXCITED FOR THIS VIDEO!!!!
it'd be cool if my city had something like that. I live in a suburb north of Toronto so most of the stores like these are in Toronto
...maybe someday soon
Toronto is making steps but things are small right now. Our fingers are crossed though!
Lol i've seen plenty of stores like this in USSR and then Russia in the early nineties. Back then you had to carry a metal canister called "bidon" to buy milk, shopper bag that was called "avos'ka", and a special metal net to carry eggs. All the packaging was made from paper (which could be then turned in for recycling). And everyone gathered glass bottles to turn them in. Honestly i don't want all that back
That sounds really smart! Haha I’d love to try it
Why dont you want it back? Too inconvenient
I went to Russia in the 90s. The meat truck that came once every couple of weeks literally had no packaging, it was just tossed in a truck. Same kind of meat, too. You didn't have a choice. Most people had to scavenge in the forest to not starve to death because the only grocery store in the area, which was plastic and package free, was hit and miss. But hey, it was low waste.
Great video, this shop looks so nice !
I always wonder when I see this videos... I live in South America, and we are waaay behind in a lot of enviromental issues, but we have a shop for each food item. Even multiple stores in the same neighborhood. For example you can go to a dietética to get spices, dried fruits, nuts, rice, oats, etc. To the green vendor to get your fresh fruits and veggies, the butcher for the meat, and there are stores that sell eggs, usually wrapped in paper. If you bring your containers you can have everything package free. Do this stores not exist in most first world countries ? I mean is really unusual here for people to buy everything at the supermarket. I´ll admit tho that some things are almost impossible to get package free, like cleaning products, or pasta. You can get the latter made fresh at pasta shops but it´s way more expensive. Are there similar stores at first world countrys? It seems from most of this videos that it´s rare.
So what materials do you think those chips are made out of and how are they mined?
Great video! We have a few zero waste stores in Toronto which is great. Curious, have you been to the zero waste store in Victoria, BC? I’d love you to do a video on these meal kit services that have become popular. I haven’t subscribed to them because I have heard there is a lot of plastic waste. But they seem very popular and certainly get a lot of media play. (HelloFresh, Chef’s Plate etc)
Not yet! But I have thought about doing something like that for a while! Maybe when we're in our own home we can try it out!
This looks real cool! A step in The right direktion!
This is fucking amazing. We need this everywhere in the world.