{"id":57683,"date":"2019-01-08T07:19:25","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T07:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=57683"},"modified":"2019-01-08T07:19:25","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T07:19:25","slug":"heres-brooklyns-zero-waste-grocery-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2019\/01\/08\/heres-brooklyns-zero-waste-grocery-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s Brooklyn&#8217;s zero-waste grocery store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every trip to the supermarket or grocery store usually ends up with a lot of unnecessary plastic packaging waste. Therefore, it is becoming highly imperative that retailers come up with plastic-free packaging options.<\/p>\n<p>We know it is possible since one store in Brooklyn is doing just that! At\u00a0Katerina Bogatireva&#8217;s zero-waste store Precycle,\u00a0people buy food from bulk containers and avoid all plastic.\u00a0The store minimizes waste, selling in bulk rather than plastic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s not acceptable in my culture to waste food,&#8221; Bogatireva, who hails from Latvia, says. She remembers bringing her own resusable containers into stores when she was in her country.<\/p>\n<p>When she first moved to the U.S., everything seemed so easy. She happily went along with the plastic packaging she saw everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You forget your values for a few years,&#8221; Bogatireva adds. But as she got older, she became more reflective and that&#8217;s when she decided to open her very own zero-waste grocery waste.<\/p>\n<p>Read more here:\u00a0<a href=\"_wp_link_placeholder\">https:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/green-food\/no-waste-grocery-stores-are-becoming-thing.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every trip to the supermarket or grocery store usually ends up with a lot of unnecessary plastic packaging waste. Therefore, it is becoming highly imperative that retailers come up with plastic-free packaging options. We know it is possible since one store in Brooklyn is doing just that! At\u00a0Katerina Bogatireva&#8217;s zero-waste store Precycle,\u00a0people buy food from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}