Reduce, Reuse, Recycle… a Mum’s tale

‘A couple of years ago I started seriously trying to reduce my families waste. I found it relatively quick and easy to half the amount of waste in the black bin but I really struggled to reduce our recycling waste, so I looked into using a refill shop to buy as much as possible packaging free. I quickly got frustrated that I didn’t have many options for buying plastic free products like many other towns do, so I made an appointment to go and see Beth at Refill Revolution in Market Harborough to chat about opening a refill shop! That was just as the first lockdown was coming into force in March 2020, so I put my ideas on hold and focused on the task of juggling home schooling two young girls and the day job! During the summer Beth introduced me to Charlotte who runs Refill Revolution in Oundle, we got chatting and together we opened Refill Revolution Stamford in the Corn Exchange at the end of September. In December we decided that Charlotte would focus on running Refill Revolution in Oundle and I’d focus on Stamford, we still work closely together but it’s me you’ll see behind the mask whilst out on deliveries at the moment!

When the January lockdown hit the whole Corn Exchange closed with it, whilst luckily our stock has a long shelf life, I didn’t want to see the business we’d spent the last 4 months growing close down overnight, so I tried deliveries and they’ve been the complete silver lining of lockdown for me. I do deliveries on a Monday and Friday (Friday’s is The Deepings delivery day), orders are due in by 6pm the evening before. Foods are delivered in recycled paper bags which are packed in the morning and liquids are filled into customers own containers when I deliver. I load the car with the 20 litre containers of the household liquids and the scales and then fill up their bottles of washing up liquid, laundry liquid, shampoo etc when I arrive, I’ve had some odd looks from passer-by but it works really well!

As well as selling foods and household liquids we also sell low impact and sustainable alternatives to every day items such as toothbrushes, kitchen sponges and brushes. Looking to the future, whilst I’m waiting for the right location for a shop, I’m exploring lots of options for keeping the shop mobile and bring Refill Revolutions to the customers, making it easier for more of us to make simple changes to reduce our food and packaging waste.’

For more information including the stock list and order form visit www. refillrevolution.co.uk/stamford or email me at Email: julie@refillrevolution.co.uk

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