Culture & Life

Auf Wiedersehen to plastic at Berlin's no-packaging store

Clutching their preserve jars, Tupperware boxes and cloth shopping bags, Berliners can now buy their groceries package-free in a "precycling" first for the environmentally switched-on city.

22.09.2014

(AFP) Clutching their preserve jars, Tupperware boxes and cloth shopping bags, Berliners can now buy their groceries package-free in a "precycling" first for the environmentally switched-on city.

From ground Colombian coffee, to olive oil from Greece, biscuit wrappers and ready-made meal trays, the layers of packaging that consumers usually have to get through, and dispose of, are a thing of the past at "Original Unverpackt" (Originally Unpackaged).