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Perhaps an alternative is the "old way".

bring your own bottle to be filled with milk / wine / oil.

Buy meat from the butcher wrapped in paper.

Buy bread from a baker wrapped in paper.

I remember that all happening as a child

But that was expensive time consuming and frequently unhygienic

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Bringing refillable containers is also being trialled in the UK and seems to be working well, but it’s very early days.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-49183051

I like the idea very much.

We have a shop in Hanover, Germany, where I live that sells a lot of groceries without any packaging at all.

You just bring your own reusable containers to fill with whatever you need.

They have a lot of inventory like pasta, oils, grains, beans, detergents.. They themself buy everything from factories in reusable containers so no waste anywhere.

I'm in a buying club with a bunch of my neighbors. We buy things in bulk, 50lb bags of rice, 5 gallons of oil, etc. We split things up and people bring their own reusable containers. Saves a ton of money and plastic waste, plus get to make neighbors into friends.

https://original-unverpackt.de/

Your meat from the butcher isn't wrapped in paper?

My local grocery store butcher tends to put meat in a plastic bag, then wrap that in paper.

Same - else meat juices will slowly soak the paper and leak out. My fishmonger does the same.

finding a butcher (that is not in a large supermarket) is hard going in urban UK

I'm on the coast and finding a fish monger is like looking for the diamond in the rough.

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