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Texas to get the first packaging-free grocery store in the U.S.

In.gredients, which is slated to open this fall in Austin, will sell loose and bulk items, including “local, organic meats, dairy, baking goods, cooking oils, spices, grains, seasonal produce — the whole spectrum.” Customers will need to bring reusable containers from home (or use the store’s compostable containers), and weigh them before filling with the products they want. 

In.gredients’ package-free, zero-waste retail concept, similar to that of Unpackaged in London, is a great business model. The benefits of precycling — avoiding wasteful packaging — and buying only the amounts you need of locally sourced products, creating less landfill and saving money in the process, are many. 

If you have friends in Austin, encourage them to support in.gredients. And let’s hope in.gredients will expand to other markets. [Hi, Houston next, please.]

No matter where you live, check it out: You can follow the company’s progress here (blog and Web site), here (Facebook), and here (Twitter).

 Yes, one in Houston please!!

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This is so amazing!!! More stores need to follow.

THIS!

This is the kind of mind-blowing - and more importantly, mind-opening - idea that can really help our dying planet. It amazes me how much waste our culture produces, and so this idea is really a good wake up call and a model for how to help address it.

I also wonder if it’ll help encourage people to eat real food, and not all that processed garbage that we’re being taught to get used to.

Either way, this idea is awesome, and I really hope they have one in Seattle, where I’m moving in two months.