WHERE YOU LIKE TO SHOP
CHANNEL ISLANDS
The Guernsey Weigh, St Peter Port, Guernsey (theguernsey weigh.gg); Mini Mall, St Helier, Jersey (gominimall.com); The Sustainable Cooperative, St Lawrence, Jersey (scoop.org.je) EAST Norfolk Natural Living, Shirehall Plain, Holt, Norfolk. norfolknaturalliving.com
Norfolk Natural Living, in the rural market town of Holt, is a beautifully curated shop specialising in luxury ecoconscious cleaning and garment care products. For owner, Bella Middleton, every product starts with a simple idea – an answer to a problem – which she researches and plans a recipe for, using the power of plants. Each product is locally made, bottled by hand and finished with the brand’s distinctive pared-back utilitarian label.
The shop also has refill stations for all their bottled products.
ALSO The Store, RECOMMENDED: Bedford (thestoreuk. co.uk); Wholesome Weigh, Hitchin (@wholesomeweigh); The Refill Room, Leigh-on-Sea (shor.by/therefillroom); Bamboo Turtle, Letchworth Garden City (bambooturtle.co.uk); Silo, Maldon (@silo_zerowaste); Ernie’s Zero Waste Shop, Norwich (ethicalernie.co.uk), Re.source, Norwich (@re._source); The Refill Pantry, St Albans (therefillpantry.co.uk); REco Store, Tiptree (@the_recostore)
LONDON
Hetu, Battersea, (hetu.co.uk); Pipoca, Brixton, (@pipocavegan); Common, Clapham, (wearecommon. co.uk); The Store Cupboard, Crystal Palace, (@thestore_ cupboard); Roots & Cycles, Crystal Palace, (rootsandcycles. co.uk); Cups & Jars, Forest Gate, (@cupsandjars_e7); Harmless Store, Hornsey, (harmlessstore.co.uk); Bring Your Own, Nunhead, (linktr.ee/bringyourownuk); The Refill Larder, Teddington, (refill-larder.co.uk)
MIDLANDS
Sue’s Sustainables, Belper (facebook.com/ SuesSustainables); Raw, Bingham (@RawBingham); The Clean Kilo, Birmingham (thecleankilo.co.uk); The Reworks, Burton Latimer (facebook.com/thereworks); Re, Flore (coffeeandrefills.com); Fodder, Hereford (facebook. com/fodder.hereford); Zero Waste, Leamington Spa (zerostore.co.uk); NADA, Leicester (zerowasteleicester. co.uk); Refill Revolution, Market Harborough (refillrevolution. co.uk); Roots Larder, Stafford (rootslarder.com)
NORTH
Another Weigh, 6 Angel Lane, Penrith, CA11 7BP; T: 01768 863156 and Unit 13 Blackhall Yard, Stricklandgate, Kendal, anotherweigh.uk.
Hidden down an alleyway in the market town of Penrith, Another Weigh channels all of its profits into Another Way, a conservation charity founded by 17-year-old oceans campaigner (and youngest ever winner of Cumbria Woman of the Year), Amy Bray.
The not-for-profit zero-waste shop, which sells 50% plasticfree household, baby and lifestyle items and 50% wholefoods, is a partnership between Amy’s parents, Chris and Emma Bray, and manager Zoe Hedges. Zoe crowdfunded £3,000 to kickstart Another Weigh and has been overwhelmed by the support of the local community.
“When we opened in January 2019, we launched a membership scheme, which already has 450 members,” Zoe says. “People come here to shop but it is also a social space where people can talk to us and to one another about making changes and aiming for a zero-waste lifestyle.”
A year later, Another Weigh had opened a second shop in Kendal and is now looking for bigger premises in Penrith, where popular features include a nut-butter machine and non-dairy milk dispenser. “We’re full to bursting and there are so many more things that we’d like to stock,” says Zoe. “It’d be great if every small- and medium-sized town could have a shop like this.”
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N.IRELAND & EIRE
Refill Quarter, Belfast (refillquarter.com); Twig Refill Shop, Clonakilty (@twigrefillshop); The Filling Station, Galway (@thefillingstationgalway)
SCOTLAND
Remake Scotland, Crieff (remakescotland.co.uk); Zero Waste Shop, Helensburgh (@zerowastehelensburgh)
SOUTH EAST
Lemon & Jinja, Unit 20 Basepoint, Premier Way, Abbey Park Industrial Estate, Romsey, Hampshire lemonandjinja.com
Founded a year ago by Jess Dugdale, whose environmental consciousness was awakened while living in Uganda during her teenage years, Lemon & Jinja occupies the unlikely location of two units on an industrial estate on the outskirts of town. After starting up in one unit, Jess soon built up so much local support that she extended next door to open a vegan café. As well as serving plant-based cakes and great coffees, the café will be soon be collaborating with local chefs to offer pop-up menus. “People have to travel to find us, so we want to make it a destination,” Jess says. “We have lot of mums who come with young children. While they have a coffee and a rest we’ll take their shopping list and do their refilling for them.”
Alongside foodstuffs, plastic-free toiletries and household goods, Lemon & Jinja sells printed dungarees, organic T-shirts and other textiles made by artisans in Uganda, where Jess’s parents run a charity that supports community-based