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DAN Dawson and Richard Eckersley were frustrated at not being able to find a plant milk that was zero waste and good quality. So they founded ReRooted and began delivering plant milks in their electric van to Totnes and the surrounding area. Even during lockdown ReRooted continued to supply their milks. ReRooted is a great example of how new local businesses should be thinking, creating something needed with a regenerative business model that created from greener thinking. Dan explains more…
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E are ReRooted. We are pioneering the Refillution with our mission to ‘ditch disposable, create a truly ethical alternative to dairy, and inspire positive change in the business world’. We deliver in glass bottles to local doorsteps across the South Hams (see our postcode checker at www.rerootedorganic.co.uk to check if we deliver in your area), then pick up the empties, wash and refill right here in Totnes. You’ll also find us in local stores and cafes across Totnes and surrounding towns, Exeter, Plymouth and now as far up as Bristol. All of our Plantmilks are organic, and always will be. Each one has been blended to find the perfect balance of flavour to bring another level of deliciousness to your breakfast, your hot drink, or just a straight glass of milk. Our whole business is powered with renewable energy and we currently source our ingredients from an ethical food coop. We’re growing into our regenerative vision to connect directly with the producers of our ingredients; many of which will be sourced from the UK, all with the highest standards of ecological awareness and biodiversity reinvigoration.
Why ReRooted?
ReRoot – create a deeper, more reciprocal relationship with the earth, and reroute the conventional business practices away from destructive towards regenerative. ReRooted was seeded from a sense of frustration with tetra pak waste. We looked at the recycling bags bulging outside of our houses, and saw even bigger ones next to cafes. We found out that only around 30% of tetra paks really get recycled. Given that recycling itself is inefficient, we decided to create something to solve this issue. We also felt that the quality of the plant based milks on offer needed improvement. With only 1% almonds in the leading brand’s almond milks, many of them not being organic, and all of them being UHT, we didn’t trust those milks enough to keep giving them to our kids - we needed to make something better. Many of the tetra pak milks are made overseas in huge factories and only branded in the UK. We wanted to have a connection with every step of the process, from growing the ingredients, to the delivering of the bottles, and everything in between. Come join the journey to truly ethical milk. We have crate expectations. l If you have any questions or ideas, or would just like to say hi, drop us a line on hello@ rerootedorganic.co.uk - we would love to hear from you!
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