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Reducing packaging waste is expensive for consumers and for retailers, says Emily Sproule, who owns the zero-waste Vancouver grocery delivery service JARR.
Image Credit: SUBMITTED/Emily Sproule April 06, 2021 - 6:00 AM Amy Ash knew reducing her waste wouldn’t be easy. But the cost of wasting less took her by surprise. “I had always been motivated to not make unnecessary waste,” said the Vancouver resident, who started to actively reduce her waste in 2017. At the time, she was working six days a week at low-wage, precarious jobs in the city. “Where it became difficult was when I would have liked to have gone to the zero-packaging stores. It was almost cruel how expensive everything was.”
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Posted: Apr 04, 2021 7:00 AM PT | Last Updated: April 4
Jarr uses canning jars to deliver zero-waste groceries in Vancouver, North Vancouver, Burnaby and Bowen Island.(supplied by Jarr)