Package-free store – a new era in shopping

Located in New Tapei City’s Sanchong District, Unpackaged is the first package-free store in Taiwan to encourage consumers to bring their own containers when making purchases. The owner promotes the concept of buying goods by weight, which not only reduces the use of disposable packaging but also reduces food waste.

The government’s plastic reduction policy that came into effect in July has helped to reduce the use of many kinds of disposable tableware, but the reduction of plastic packaging seems to stop at the marketing strategy. At present, there are package-free environmentally friendly stores in northern, central, and southern Taiwan, but they are still few and far between. Only by starting to change our daily consumption patterns can we drive more businesses to promote package-free shopping methods.

以下為中文對照

位於新北三重的無包裝商店，為台灣第一家主推消費者自行攜帶容器做採購的消費模式。業者主推用多少買多少的概念，除了減少一次性包裝的使用，也減少吃不完所造成的浪費。

七月起上路的減塑政策，少了許多一次性餐具的使用，但對於包裝的減塑似乎止步於行銷策略上。目前台灣北中南陸續有無包裝環保商店的產生，但數量並不多，如果我們從日常消費方式開始改變，便能帶動更多業者推廣無包裝的消費模式。