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Bushwick Welcomes the First Zero-Waste Grocery Delivery Service in the US

Sustainable and reusable packaging, organic produce, AND delivery. What else can one dream of?

Bushwick Welcomes the First Zero-Waste Grocery Delivery Service in the US

Bushwick Welcomes the First Zero-Waste Grocery Delivery Service in the US

Sustainable and reusable packaging, organic produce, AND delivery. What else can one dream of?

Bushwick Welcomes the First Zero-Waste Grocery Delivery Service in the US
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While most Americans have yet to break up with Amazon, many are swiftly getting woke to alternative, and more environmentally sound, ways of acquiring goods.

Tamara Lim, founder of new zero-waste grocery delivery company The Wally Shop, is here to inform Brooklyn residents that deliveries needn’t burden our already ailing environment. Opened four months ago, The Wally Shop is making the zero-waste lifestyle even more attainable for Brooklyn residents.

The e-commerce industry, worth about $350 billion as of 2016, ships around 165 billion packages each year, according to Fast Company. Amazon accounted for about 5 billion of these in 2017 alone. While the retail giant claims to have eliminated nearly a quarter of a million tons of packaging materials from 2007 to 2017, a staggering amount of packing materials still get sent to landfill.

Lim, who used to work for the e-retail giant itself, managing the packaging and shipping retail category, noticed a growing demand from consumers for recycled and sustainable packaging. Because the…

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