Grocery
Shopping
Plan your shopping and buy smart. Think Beyond The Bin and your actions will pay off in both environmental and economic terms!
Tips for Precycling:
Grocery Shopping
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Buy only the items you need -- using a list helps avoid impulse purchases.
Buy loose fruits and vegetables instead of prepackaged.
Buy plastic recyclable milk and juice containers rather than cartons.
Use a sturdy string or canvas shopping bag, rather than taking a paper or plastic one.
Buy large containers of water and juice, not individual servings.
Take net produce bags back to the grocery and reuse them, rather than the disposable plastic bags the store provides.
more tips- Purchase only what you need and use it before it spoils.
- Purchase products with the least amount of packaging and products packaged in recyclable materials.
- Make choices that emphasize, in the following order:
- no packaging
- minimal packaging
- consumable packaging
- returnable, refillable or reusable packaging
- recyclable packaging/recyclable material in packaging
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