EAT DRINK BETTER: Day By Day has four stores in France that operate without producing waste.
EAT DRINK BETTER: Day By Day has four stores in France that operate without producing waste.
Inspired by Bea Johnson’s book, Zero Waste Home, Alice Bigorgne decided to give up her career in marketing and open a Day By Day store in her hometown of Lille in northern France. At Day By Day, all 450 products are sold loose. You have to bring your own containers or use those donated by other shoppers for re-use. You can buy precisely the quantity of food that you want. “If you need only a single spoonful of coffee or two cinnamon sticks, I’ll sell it to you,” Bigorgne says.
Without packaging, Bigorgne can sell her products for far less money than the fancy super market down the street. She says her items are of the highest quality but sell for as much as 40% less than pre-packaged foods. We often do not realize how much the packaging costs us as consumers. And of course, disposing of all that packaging has significant social costs as well. Some of it gets recycled but too much ends up in land fills.
