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Scottish Grocer Offers Milk Vending Machine
Innovation helps save plastic by allowing shoppers to refill glass bottles in-store. The Lempert Report: The innovation helps save plastic by allowing shoppers to refill glass bottles in-store.
Phil Lempert
September 19, 2018
1 Min Read
The Lempert Report: The innovation helps save plastic by allowing shoppers to refill glass bottles in-store.Photograph: YouTube
Locavore, a supermarket in Glasgow, Scotland, allows customers to refill glass bottles with fresh milk instead of buying plastic cartons, which should save the shop 100 plastic containers a day.
It's a milk vending machine, similar to those we now see here in the U.S. to refill water bottles.
Locavore first began by offering customers produce sourced from local farms and recently opened up the store as an alternative to mainstream supermarkets, offering sustainable and all-organic options.
"Reducing waste is really important to us. It essentially underpins everything we do," Eilidh Sinclaire, part of Locavore’s zero waste team, told Metro news. "It’s one of our main values to reduce our environmental impact for ourselves and also for the customers."
Locavore’s managing director, Reuben Chesters, added: "The milk vending machine lets us work directly with a local organic dairy to get really tasty unhomogenized milk to our customers without wasting plastic containers."
