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As consumers such as Broks
seek to limit the waste they cre-
ate, more local entrepreneurs
like Levy are stepping in to
serve them and have begun
opening storefronts — physical,
mobile, and online.
The Boston General Store is
selling a growing assortment of
zero-waste accessories. Make &
Mend sells secondhand arts
and crafts supplies in Somer-
ville’s Bow Market. The Green
Road Refill bus tours Cape Cod
selling plastic-free alternatives
to home and body products.
Last month, Sabrina Auclair
launched Unpacked Living, an
online storefront that she says
is the only plastic-free store in
Massachusetts.
Recent changes in the Chi-
nese recycling industry have
upended the way America deals
with waste. China had pro-
cessed US recyclables for de-
cades but is now rejecting “for-
eign garbage” as part of a
broader national antipollution
campaign. The decision has re-
verberated in municipalities
across the United States, forc-
ing Massachusetts authorities
to place new restrictions on ma-
terials they accept curbside in
recycling bins. In so doing, it’s
also forced more consumers
to reconsider the amount of
waste they create.
Julia Wilson, who tracks cor-
porate sustainability efforts for
the Nielsen research firm, says
73 percent of consumers are
looking to shift their consump-
tion habits to reduce their envi-
ronmental impact, and she pre-
dicts that they’ll spend $150
billion on sustainable goods by
- Young consumers in par-
ticular lack the brand loyalty of
their parents, she said, mean-
ing they’re willing to make pur-
chase decisions that align with
their values. And that presents
an opportunity.
“It opens the door for new
entrepreneurs and upstart
products and brands who are
thinking about things different-
ly,” she said.
Some entrepreneurs are us-
ing a “circular economy” model
in which goods are delivered in
durable packages and sent back
when they’re empty. Boston-
based ThreeMain launched ear-
lier this year selling cleaning
products in reusable aluminum
bottles. The most well-funded
endeavor, Loop, which expand-
ed to Massachusetts last
month, sells 100 major brands
including Haagen Dazs, Crest
mouthwash, and Clorox wipes
in reusable containers.
Tom Szaky has spent over 17
years processing hard-to-recy-
cle materials as the founder of
TerraCycle, and said the chal-
lenges in the recycling economy
led him to launch Loop. “Waste
has really moved from a prob-
lem to a crisis in the last 24
months,” he said. “And the real
root cause of waste is the idea of
disposability, which was really
only invented in the 1950s.”
Loop’s goal, he said, is to
make buying items in durable,
reusable containers as “incredi-
bly convenient and incredibly
affordable” as the ones we’re
currently buying — and tossing
— when we’re through. “Our
goal is that it feels to you as dis-
posable as possible,” he said. “I
want you to feel like it’s a
throwaway lifestyle.”
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The service has been operat-
ing in Paris and New York for
the past few months and will
have as many as 500 products
by the year’s end, Szaky said.
Partnerships with Kroger and
Walgreen stores will launch
next year.
To the enlightened observer,
these entrepreneurs aren’t so
much trying to reinvent com-
merce as they are trying to take
it back to a more traditional
form of selling goods.Levy recognizes the difficul-
ty involved with changing con-
sumer habits, but she said the
model works because she’s sell-
ing necessities. “You don’t go a
week without hand soap,” she
notes. And she’s hopeful, as the
popularity of zero-waste shops
has exploded abroad in the
United Kingdom, Canada, and
particularly in Australia, where
the nonprofit Plastic Free Foun-
dation launched the #Plastic-
FreeJuly campaign, which has
become a global phenomenon.
Auclair’s path to entrepre-
neurship started in the sham-
poo aisle of a Market Basket.
The Colombia native has lived
in Massachusetts for over a de-
cade and grew to hate the
American habit of buying ev-
erything in plastic. Because her
apartment building in Beverly
doesn’t recycle, she felt frustrat-
ed by the amount of waste she
created.
“If I buy a shampoo plastic
bottle, I’m buying trash,” she
said, recalling her Market Bas-
ket revelation. “I vowed that
day that I was going to quit
plastic.”
Auclair found a community
of like-minded consumers on-
line and began to document her
attempt to live plastic-free on
Instagram. She created the Fa-
cebook group Zero Waste Mas-
sachusetts before launch-
ing Unpacked Living. The site
sells such items as bamboo
toothbrushes, metal lunch tins,
and lip balms in cardboard con-
tainers. It’s a small endeavor —
she has invested about $2,000
on the products, and her ware-
house is her guest bedroom —but she said it’s a start.
Area food suppliers say con-
cerns about plastic waste are
driving a steady increase in
bulk buying, particularly fol-
lowing the closure of the Har-
vest Co-op last year. Matt Gray
has seen sales of his bulk sec-
tion and bottled milk soar in his
Somerville storefront, Neigh-
borhood Produce. Alys Myers is
working to build Supply, a bulk
delivery business out of Dor-
chester, and Roche Bros. re-
cently added a bulk section in
itsDowntownCrossingstore.
And since taking over the
store’s operations last summer,
Greg Saidnawey, the 26-year-
old fourth-generation owner
of Pemberton Farms market in
North Cambridge, said he has
doubled the amount of items
the store sells (it now offers 120
bulk bins, 65 spices, three oils,
four soap products, six pet
foods, and 12 beverages).
“The demand was there,” he
said, “and we took the opportu-
nity and ran with it.”
Gergana Nenkov, a market-
ing professor at Boston College
who studies how consumers en-
gage with messages around sus-
tainability, said these entrepre-
neurs are responding to the
shifting attitudes of younger
consumers. “There’s a big con-
cern about ‘What are you doing
for the world?’ ” she said, a mes-
sage that “startups are leading
the way on, and big companies
will follow.”
Until then, for consumers
like Julia Burrell, living a low-
waste life can still feel a lot like
a full-time job. In January, the
self-described “environmental
atrocity” made a decision to rid
her life of plastic, documenting
her effort on Instagram as The
Crazy No Plastic Lady. It’s still
hard to buy meat and cheese in
plastic-free packaging, she said,
and she’s been slapped on the
wrist while attempting to use
her own containers in the bulk
aisle of such stores as Whole
Foods. “Living this lifestyle re-
quires a lot of research,” she
said, sitting in front of a collec-
tion of empty glass jars that line
the mantel of her East Boston
home. “And a lot of seeing what
you can get away with.”
But Burrell is hoping her In-
stagram account might lead to
a new career coaching organi-
zations on taking steps toward
reducing their waste. “If I focus
my energies into this, I think
I could parlay this into a suc-
cessful business,” she said. “It
would be the most meaningful
job I have ever had.”Janelle Nanos can be reached
at [email protected].
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PHOTOS BY SUZANNE KREITER/GLOBE STAFFAt her store, Cleenland, in Cambridge, Sarah Levy (left) weighed a customer’s re-usable
containers before filling them.
Bulk items at Cleenland include soap, shampoo, and other
cleaning products.‘There’s a big
concern
about “What are
you doing for the
world?’’ ’
GERGANA NENKOV,
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Age 77, longtime Chelmsford resident,
passed away peacefully on Saturday,
August 10, 2019, in Concord, after
a lengthy illness, surrounded by her
loving family. She was the beloved wife
of Gerald E. Carnevale with whom she
shared 52 years of marriage. She was
born in Boston, MA on May 27, 1942,
and was a daughter of the late Ernest
and Helen (D’Agostino) Penta. Janet
was raised in Medford, MA, and was a
graduate of Medford High School Class
of 1960. She lived in Chelmsford for
over 50 years where she devoted her life
to her husband, her children, and her
home. The family vacationed for years
at their lake house in Maine and more
recently Janet spent her winters with
Jerry in Venice, FL near her siblings.
She was well known for her excellent
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the incredibly decorated birthday cakes
she created for her children and the
Italian meatballs she learned to make
from her mother. With a memory that
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Bottasso and her husband Michael of
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ale, her brothers; Ralph Penta and his
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her husband Alton ofVenice, FL. Janet
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Age 85, formerly of Wellesley, MA,
passed away peacefully on August 8,
2019 at his home in Marion, MA. He
will be remembered for his clever wit,
irrepressible sense of adventure, and
his willingness to march to his own
drummer.
Born on August 6, 1934, Warren
grew up on his family’s poultry farm
in Mansfield, MA. He received degrees
from MIT and Harvard and married
his former German professor, Renata
Hofman, in 1961. After working in
management consulting he taught at
Northeastern, Bentley College, MIT and
Suffolk University. He founded Suffolk’s
Computer Information Systems depart-
ment, where he taught for 32 years and
was known for his dynamic lecturing
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and Argentina. Warren was an avid
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November 11, 1944 - August 8, 2019
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ton, MA, died after a long battle with
COPD and congestive heart failure.
Dearly beloved husband of Joyce C.
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Methuen, MA; and pre-deceased by his
son Jared A. Bradley (Jennie) of Madi-
son, NH; devoted stepfather of Sarah
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CA and Will Killingsworth (Meghan)
of Pelham, MA; adoring “Grampy” of
Colin and Sean of CA, and Macey-Grace
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